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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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Failed to pull container image registry.eu-de.bluemix.net

Here's what I have: a java application (as JAR file) docker image (built from Dockerfile) with this java application The image was built with: sudo docker build -t registry.eu-de.bluemix.net/watson2018/imagerecognition:latest . The image is pushed…
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How to change default database name BLUDB in IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud?

Whenever I create a Db2 service in IBM Cloud, it takes the default database name BLUBDB. I want to change to user specific name like TESTDB?
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how can we create cloudant service of bluemix in jenkins using ibmcloud? Is ibmcloud plugin available for jenkins

what's the process of create cloudant service that is resource group specific in jenkins. how can we made connection in jenkins of resource group of bluemix. I had tried and create service using cloud foundry plugins that is org and space specific …
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IBM Cloud App ID: How to setup sign in for users using ibmcloud-appid?

I've been working in a project where I wanted to use IBM Cloud App ID to authenticate users. I'm able to sign-up new users using the ibmcloud-appid node package. There are options to change email, change password, etc etc but I see no method for…
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How to retrieve all the licenses associated with an account using Python API

I'm trying to retrieve license information (license name, license version, expiry date, etc...) that are associated with each hardware components (instances) under a specific account ID. Can someone help how to list down all the hardware components…
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IBM Cloud - Cloud Foundry - Disable SSL Renegotiation in mybluemix.net domain

In IBM Cloud Foundry, how can I disable SSL Renegotiation or check for client-initiated renegotiation support and disable it where possible?
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Having an issue installing IBM Cloud CLI on Windows 10

I am following the instructions to install IBM Cloud CLI on a Windows 10 virtual machine found here https://console.bluemix.net/docs/cli/index.html#overview and I am coming across this error on Step 1. I am unsure why it is looking for a…
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Reason: Unable to create a git account for the user.in IBM Bluemix?

I am trying to deploy my code in Bluemix from GitHub. while cloning the existing repository, it is not loading the owner. it is showing the following error: Reason: Unable to create a git account for the user. How can I resolve the issue?
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How to retrieve resource groups by REST API?

I'm automating some IBM Cloud workflows. One of the things I need to do is retrieve a list of resource groups via the REST API similar to bx resource groups. I can trace the REST call: $ IBMCLOUD_TRACE=true bx resource groups Retrieving all…
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How to download multiple objects from IBM Cloud Object Storage?

I am trying to use IBM Cloud Object Storage to store images uploaded to my site by users. I have this functionality working just fine. However, based on the documentation here (link) it appears as though only one object can be downloaded from a…
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IBM Chatbot Assistant: Handling Multiple Entities

I have an entity called @spare_part and this entity has 4 values with the following example synonyms each: both with synonyms filter, oil level indicator not_defined with a synonym spare part only_gear with synonyms valve, seal whole_gear_box with a…
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IBM Watson Assistant: Chatbot Entity Confusion over regular expression 2

I have created an entity called @material_number and this entity has 3 values which are provided below with their respective patterns: num1 with the pattern (\d{3}\.){1}\d{3} num2 with the pattern (\d{3}\.){2}\d{3} num3 with the pattern…
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IBM Cloud access policies: How to check for specific policy using CLI?

IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows to define access policies to allow a service to access another service in a specific role. I can create such policies using the IBM Cloud CLI. However, how can I find a specific policy using the…
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Watson Discovery Service Python add document Error: Invalid Content-Type. Expected 'multipart/form-data'

Import Watson Developer Cloud Python SDK from watson_developer_cloud import DiscoveryV1 Get the pdf from Slack doc_url which is the private URL r = requests.get(doc_url, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer {}'.format(slack_token)…
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How to load a key into IBM KeyProtect using Terraform

I would like to use the IBM Terraform provider to provision a KeyProtect instance containing a standard key. Getting a KeyProtect instance is easy: Use a service instance of type kms. Does Terraform offer a way of inserting a specified key in the…