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IBM® Cloud platform (formerly Bluemix) combines platform as a service (PaaS) with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to build, run, deploy, and manage applications on the cloud. Additionally, the IBM Cloud platform has a rich catalog of cloud services that can be easily integrated with your applications. Supported programming languages and runtimes include Java, Node.js, Swift, Go, PHP, Python, and Ruby, and other languages.

IBM Cloud platform is based on open source technology. In addition to using IBM Cloud platform to build Web applications for multiple frameworks - including iOS - you can create Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters, or launch virtual server instances. IBM Cloud platform follows a Hybrid Cloud model meaning that the apps, containers, and VMs that you use with the platform are portable across public, dedicated, and on-premises clouds.

The IBM Cloud platform console provides application boilerplates to help you get started. The IBM Cloud platform console offers a growing catalog of over 100 services to build applications.

Service categories

  • Compute: Obtain access to bare metal and virtual servers
  • Storage: Store unstructured data in the cloud
  • Network: Secure VPN connections, orchestrate load balancing, and use other network services
  • Security: Configure firewalls and secure connections
  • Containers: Deploy Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters and use Docker-based containers
  • VMware: Integrate VMware solutions
  • Boilerplates: Use templates to help you get started with various services
  • APIs: Create, manage, enforce, and run APIs
  • Application Services: Deliver applications that include business rules, automation, an application server, and more
  • Blockchain: Integrate the IBM Blockchain technology in your environment
  • Cloud Foundry Apps: Choose from multiple runtimes including Liberty for Java, SDK for Node.js, and Swift
  • Data & Analytics: Select from a variety of database options, including Compose, and incorporate big data analytics
  • DevOps: Go from application development to deployment with continuous delivery, auto-scaling, globalization, and alert notifications
  • Finance: Manage your investments and finances
  • Functions: Execute serverless event-driven programming (IBM Cloud Functions)
  • Integrate: Access API management, product insights, secure gateway functionality
  • Internet of Things: Manage connected devices using IoT foundation and IoT for electronics
  • Mobile: Integrate push notifications, testing, tuning, and analytics for mobile applications
  • Watson: Add cognitive abilities to applications

When asking questions about the IBM Cloud platform, you should:

  • Ensure you are asking a technical question about using the IBM Cloud platform or services. (For questions about your account or IBM Cloud platform offerings, ask at IBM developerWorks Answers or open a support ticket.)
  • Search Stack Overflow to see if somebody else has already asked the same question.
  • Explain what you were trying to do when you encountered the problem. What software versions were you using? Is there anything else about your environment that could lead to the problem?
  • Provide code samples where possible. Isolate the problem and reproduce it with as little code as possible.
  • Include the tag, plus an additional tag to indicate the service or technology in question.

Getting support for the IBM Cloud platform

  • Ask technical questions on Stack Overflow about programming and deploying applications using the IBM Cloud platform and services. The IBM Cloud platform Development and Support teams monitor Stack Overflow closely.
  • Ask non-technical questions about the IBM Cloud platform offerings at IBM developerWorks Answers. It’s also the best place to ask questions about getting started with the platform.
  • Open a support ticket to get answers to your issue especially if you cannot find the answer in the forums. See Getting Customer Support for details on contacting Support and opening tickets.

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Can all of Bluemix's services be used in a mobile application?

I am trying to create a mobile application and use some Bluemix services. I see a section for "Mobile" in my bluemix account, which includes : Mobile Application Content Manager Mobile Client Access Mobile Foundation Mobile…
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How to connect dashDB (on Bluemix) with Object Storage (on Bluemix)?

I am using Public Bluemix. I have provisioned a dashDB service instance using my IBM ID in Bluemix. I have also provisioned a Object Storage service. I would like to load files from Object Storage into dashDB. When I try to define a load job in…
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You must build Spark with Hive. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true'

I'm trying to run a notebook on Analytics for Apache Spark running on Bluemix, but I hit the following error: Exception: ("You must build Spark with Hive. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true' and run build/sbt assembly", Py4JJavaError(u'An error occurred while…
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Resource Management of Bluemix Auto - Scaling

What are the impacts of bluemix auto-scaling in terms of resource management. For example if a runtime is specified with 1 GB of memory and auto-scaling is set to 2 instances, does the application consume 2 GB? Same question for the disk allocated…
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IBM Watson visual recognition - invalid API key

I'm trying to use the visual recognition from IBM Watson using their API. Here is the POST request I am sending: https://gateway-a.watsonplatform.net/visual-recognition/api/v3/classify?api_key={MY_API_KEY}&version=2016-05-20 and I specify my image…
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Swift print to system out on Bluemix?

My Swift print statements don't seem to go to the system out log on Bluemix; I see print lines from STG, DEA, RTR; but nothing from my APP. Does it require some configuration in Swift?
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Error in streaming-analytic service in Bluemix

I followed this tutorial to use the streaming-analytic service in Bluemix to interface with message-hub: …
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With python pure SASL, can we now write python clients to access Message Hub?

The question has been raised before as to if we can use Python to access Message Hub. The answer was generally no until a SASL implementation was written in Python. Now, there is a pure Python SASL called pure-sasl!, is it now possible to call…
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Watson STT Java - Varying results between Websockets Java and HTTP POST

I'm trying to build an app that takes a streamed audio input (eg: a line in microphone) and does Speech-to-Text using IBM Bluemix (Watson). I briefly modified the example Java code found here. This example sends a WAV but instead I'm sending a…
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Public URLs For Objects In Bluemix Object Storage Service

I would like to upload a number of photos to the Bluemix Object Storage service and then display them in a web app. Right now a GET request to the photo in the object storage container requires and auth token. Is there any way I can create a…
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Bluemix returns different result for querying Cloudant database

I have a Strongloop instance running on Bluemix. I have the same Strongloop running in one of my VM local. They two synchronize through git. My query code 100% works for querying Cloudant and outputting the query URL and param. When I run param in…
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Bluemix Local: How do I add an existing on-prem DB2 database as service?

I am using Bluemix Local and have an existing on-premises database (DB2 LUW) that I want to use with a Cloud Foundry application. How can I make that database "testDB" available as a service, so that my app can use the VCAP_SERVICES variable to…
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Calling a service with python on bluemix

I'm using python on the IBM Bluemix platform. How can I do a call to the text-to-speech Watson service? I have the string inside my python code and I need to pass this text to be read.
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Bluemix news api transaction limit exceeded

I have added the Alchemy API service to my Bluemix dashboard and can use the credentials to call the API. I have configured the service to use the "Ecosystem" plan. My App calls the news API fine for the first few calls and then I get API…
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SSL handshake failure for liberty application using cloudant

I've been stuck on this far longer than I want to admit. I want to connect to cloudant/couchdb using WebSphere Liberty. I'm fairly new to Java app development, Liberty, Cloudant and Bluemix. I believe I need to add a SSL certificate for cloudant in…
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