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I want 'GitLab Community Edition Link' on my IBM Cloud dashboard

For example, use the'Node-RED Starter kit'in IBM Cloud to create a new resource. This will automatically create a toolchain and at the same time add'Git Repos '. after a while After you finish using the resource, delete the automatically crea...
about 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 3 Planned for future release

I want to delete an object on the Cloud Logs's Archive query page

I understand that it is possible to view logs from the archive from the Logs page and Archive query page. However, our request is to delete objects that are not reused from the archive query page. Users are not necessarily familiar with how to u...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Allow creating read-only Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres

Currently we can only create read/write Service Credentials for IBM Cloud Databases for Postgres. However in some cases such as when a SRE or dev needs to investigate the database, they only require read-only access, so it would be nice to be able...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases 1 Future consideration

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services

Enable Default Email Alerts Capabilities in Monitoring Services. Useful to send emails from native monitoring services.
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring 5 Functionality already exists

automatic IKS worker replacement as a response to a certain metric (classic or VPC infrastructure)

While operating IBM Kubernetes (IKS) clusters (classsic infrastructure) we have run several times into a situation where IKS worker nodes start under-performing. We notice performance issues that are usually visible as: Read timeouts while perform...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Kubernetes Service 0 Future consideration

Include quick access to Terraform code in all service creation screens.

This feature would be useful for developers and SREs looking to automate service creation. It should be as simple as possible. I propose that the Terraform logo is placed beside the Docs link under the service name (see in included mock screenshot).
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / DevOps 2 Planned for future release

Consume PowerVS Platform Events

We have events in powervs workspace and maximum of last 400 events can be stored. We need to consume those events in ITSM.
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

Functionality of Event Driven Automation using Ansible or inhouse automation tools like shell script or webhooks

We have Security and compliance center giving us a snapshot of security and compliance of our infrastructure based on profile we attach. We want to automate the outcomes of ant control by notifications or events to emails, webhooks, ITSM tools and...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 6 Future consideration

SSH support for GitLab repositories in IBM Schematics

We need the capability to integrate IBM Schematics with GitLab via SSH. Currently only HTTPS is supported by IBM Schematics. In order for us to maintain control of our IaaC resources in IBM Cloud, we wish to use IBM Schematics but are unable as it...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Integration 0 Planned for future release

VMware Solution Day 2 Actions Capabilities

Hi, as a customer of IBM Cloud, we offer VMware Solutions reselling to our customers. Customers who have cost considerations use shared infra services meaning multiple tenants hosted on a single compute cluster. To provide services to multiple cus...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / VMware Solutions 0 Not under consideration