Questions tagged [ibm-cloud]

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.

Helpful links

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Spring Boot JSESSIONID secure flag not set over HTTPS

We have build a Cloud Foundry app using Liberty for Java. When testing the app we found that the SSL cookie did not have the secure flag set. Issue: The JSESSIONID did not have the Secure flag set while the _VCAP_ID had the Secure flag set We have…
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How to get exact answers instead of the whole document using Watson Discovery?

After testing the discovery service, it seems useless to me at least or I might be missing something. When I query, it matches the document and returns the whole document. If my document is huge, then for all queries it returns the whole document…
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Trying to run Swift Vapor on Bluemix - 404 Not Found: Requested route does not exist

I'm trying to figure out how to deploy in IBM Bluemix a Cloudfoundry app that uses Vapor framework. IBM is providing facilities and guidance for using his platform for developing server side Swift apps with his framework, Kitura. I think as a…
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Get Watson Conversation Workspaces

I am using Watson Conversation services on Bluemix. We have multiple Conversation workspaces within the service to enable better segmentation of the problem space. I need to load information on the set of available workspaces within the Conversation…
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Realtime plotting bokeh python Flask without server

I would like to use bokeh inside a python flask web app. Unfortunately I am not able to run a realtime plot using the native bokeh server, because I have only on port available in my Bluemix application (limitation by Cloud Foundry), which is…
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How can I integrate Bluemix Conversation and Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech

I would like to use the Bluemix Conversation sample application and add speech input and output to it. There are other sample applications for Bluemix TTS and STT available. What are options to integrate these 3 functions and which of them are…
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Uploading a file via pyCurl

I am trying to convert the following curl code into pycurl. I do not want to use requests. I need to use pycurl because requests is not fully working in my old python version. curl -X POST -H "Accept-Language: en" -F "images_file=@fruitbowl.jpg" -F…
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How to create index search in CouchDB?

Assuming configuring couchDB locally, how and where to create the search index similarly to Cloudant on Bluemix?
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Node.JS - any side effects of setting max-old-space-size too large?

Our server runs Node.JS on a cloud PaaS (specifically Bluemix). We can configure the amount of allocated memory through the PaaS dashboard, but I noticed that for values above ~1.4GB you also need to execute node with the --max-old-space-size option…
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How can I delete an organisation from IBM Bluemix?

In IBM Bluemix you can create and be the member of multiple Organisations. How can I remove redundant organisations?
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How to delete a "space" in IBM Bluemix?

I have created an extra "space" on my Bluemix account. I double checked my Bluemix dashboard, but I am not able to delete that space. Now, how I can delete it?
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See full msg debug with Node-RED

I'm running an application on Bluemix using Node-RED. I added a debug node to output the complete msg object, but it is being truncated in the debug console. How can I see the complete object?
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Workload Scheduler for Node.js script - is it equivalent to cron jobs in Bluemix?

I'm trying to call node file.js with Bluemix Workload Scheduler every morning; file.js is in the root of my node.js project; file.js is not my server file. I used to use cron but it seems like "BlueMix doesn't have a concept of cron jobs." As result…
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Can't run unit tests in Bluemix Build & Deploy Pipeline because the servers can't connect to ClearDB MySQL

SOLVED! Looks like the pipeline service in Bluemix has been updated, the connection to ClearDB works beautifully now! Thanks to whoever pushed that change! :) -- I am running the code within the Bluemix build & Deploy pipeline, NOT inside the…
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Watson api using node.js

I am trying to use this node.js code to use watson api which is in ibm cloud bluemix in our ios app. Can anybody tell me what this code is doing and provide us an answer how to use the watson service from our app. var express =…
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