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.

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How to run expo (react native) app on cloudfoundry (e.g. IBM Cloud)?

When running expo locally, by using: yarn start You will get a QR code or a URL which you can open on expo app. There're 3 URLs you can choose: Tunnel LAN Local My question is, how do I do the same by hosting somewhere else? I tried to do export…
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How to get second @entitie.literal when I have two or more "same" entitity on same phrase

For example, my input text are: You can I talk with someone on entity I have: @pron:aboutme = I, Me @pron:aboutother = someone, anyone, everyone, Richard So... I want get @pron:aboutother literal The problem is @pron.literal returns "I" and not…
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Inconsistency between transcript and alternatives in IBM Watson Speech To Text

There appears to be a persistent issue in IBM Watson's Speech-To-Text API in that the transcript and alternatives are inconsistent. For instance, an excerpt of an offending transcript reads as: 'fall being just like' and the corresponding…
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boto3 put metadata empties object contents

I have objects in s3 (IBM cos), I'm trying to update metadata like custom user metadata for objects in a bucket. I'm using the below snippet to update the metadata. But when I retrieve the object after this I'm getting empty content. import boto3 as…
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IBM Cloud with Cloud Foundry: node-gzip does not compress a buffer

I'm trying to compress a buffer, and it works fine on my local machine, but when I upload the service to Cloud Foundry on IBM Cloud, it doesn't work (no errors in logs). Sample code is here: const {gzip} =…
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Connect IBM Watson Assistant chatbot to Db2

I currently have a Watson chatbot set up and also have a DB2 database with some tables set up. Could someone please assist me in how to develop a code in the IBM Cloud function to connect both the chatbot and DB2 services, as well as how the code in…
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Error while creating/importing skill in watson assistant with lite plan

While trying out the banking chatbot demo I am unable to import a skill with the json file mentioned for the demo. It is a valid json file but import fails with an error "We could not import your Skill. Unable to fetch access token for account: " I…
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502 Bad Gateway: Registered endpoint failed to handle the request. : Python

I'm trying to deploy an app developed using python and flask on ibm cloud. The app is pushed and starts as well, but when i visit the link I get the error: 502 Bad Gateway: Registered endpoint failed to handle the request My manifest file looks…
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Deploy model trained with custom loss function on Watson machine learning

I've trained a model on Watson Machine learning with a custom loss function but when I try to deploy it I get an error saying: Invalid Input data: Unknow loss function:loss I am aware that normally in Keras you can load a model that have custom…
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How to get a List of Files in IBM COS Bucket using Watson Studio

I have a working Python script for consolidating multiple xlsx files that I want to move to a Watson Studio project. My current code uses a path variable which is passed to glob... path = '/Users/Me/My_Path/*.xlsx' files = glob.glob(path) Since…
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How can I link IBM Watson Assistant with Watson Discovery

I wish to make a chatbot using the two services listed in the title. Watson assistant is used to make the dialog for the chatbot while watson discovery allows for finding information in a large variety of documents such as .html, .pdf files. I want…
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Can't create resource group in lite account

For some reason I cannot create a resource group for IBM cloud. The error says I can only create one resource group in a lite account. But unfortunately I do not have any group in there Could someone give some advice how I should deal with that…
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Add external library to an action

I'm developing an action in IBM-Clound functions, that is called in Watson Assistant dialog.This action has to make a SOAP petition to a WS. The problem is when I try to import the suds library because It is not in the default python libraries. How…
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Unable to play WAV file generated by IBM Watson's TTS (Text To Speech)

Currently working with the example script found on IBM Watson's GitHub: Link: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/python-sdk/blob/master/examples/text_to_speech_v1.py When I run the script, it works perfectly creating the WAV file. However,…
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Node-Red flows are not displayed with 2 instances in IBM Cloud

Flows are not displayed when the number of Node-red app instances is 2 in IBM Cloud. When I changed it back to one instance, the flows were shown. Is this a limitation?
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