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March 7, 2022

How to Use an Ansible Playbook to Manage Secrets for Infrastructure Provisioned on IBM Cloud

6 min read - Instructions and code that show you how to use Ansible playbooks to manage the lifecycle of a secret in IBM Secret Manager. IBM Cloud Secrets Manager is built on open-source HashiCorp Vault, and it allows you to dynamically create and…

February 3, 2022

Ready for the Job: Twitterbot Recoded

3 min read - Lessons learned from converting an IBM Cloud Code Engine app to a job. Last year, I blogged about how to set up scheduled tasks on IBM Cloud with cron-like jobs. In that article, I discussed an app hosted on IBM…

January 18, 2022

Our Journey with Quarkus

8 min read - Quarkus truly appears to be the smartest possible solution, in our experience. The Java platform is an industry leader when it comes to portability and extensibility. It is also known for its support, maintainability and a rich set of libraries.…

January 5, 2022

Announcing the General Availability of IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL

2 min read - Production-ready MySQL that is available in minutes. We are excited to announce that IBM Cloud® Databases for MySQL has been added to the IBM Cloud Databases family. Customers can now provision production-ready MySQL servers on the IBM Cloud platform. This managed…

November 11, 2021

The Best of Both Worlds

< 1 min read - Security and agility come together for the University of Mainz Medical Center. Case study: “The best of both worlds” Privacy is an essential component of healthcare. Often, healthcare providers must sacrifice speed or accessibility in favor of keeping patients’ information…

IBM Cloud Databases for Redis 4.0 End of Life in May 2022

< 1 min read - After May 27, 2022, all IBM Cloud Databases for Redis instances on version 4.0 that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version, Redis 5.0. This will be done according to our Database Versioning Policy. Users are expected to either be on Redis version 5.0 or 6.0 after the EOL date. Customers can upgrade their database instances using the following documentation. Any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to IBM Cloud Databases support.

Announcing Configuration Discovery for IBM Cloud

5 min read - IBM Cloud Configuration Discovery allows you to reverse-engineer your perfect application hosting environment and codify it so you can easily re-build or replicate as you need. Do you have an IBM Cloud infrastructure that was incrementally and manually built that is now set up exactly how you want it and perfectly running your business-critical applications? Up until now, you may have wanted to replicate the environment for a number of different reasons, but it would take a lot of steps…

Streaming Capability Now Available in IBM Cloud Monitoring

3 min read - Today, we are excited to announce that metric streaming is now available to push metrics from IBM Cloud Monitoring to a Kafka service, such as IBM Cloud Event Streams. IBM Cloud Monitoring is a cloud-native, container-intelligence management system that you can include as part of your IBM Cloud architecture to gain operational visibility into the performance and health of your applications, services and platforms. With this feature, you can export a set of defined metrics to an external tool of…

Supporting Business Continuity with Postgres on IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers for VPC

3 min read - As user expectations of database availability have increased, so have the stakes on business and brand reputation for disruptions in database availability and access. As a reliant platform, IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers for VPC protects and supports a variety of open-source and enterprise-grade applications, extending business continuity and avoiding risks to business and brand reputation for disruptions in availability. This blog post will look at two ways to set up high availability solutions on IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers…

Supporting Business Continuity with Postgres on IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers for VPC

Using IBM Cloud Terraform Modules to Develop Terraform Templates

5 min read - This guide explains how to leverage the Terraform modules on IBM Cloud to rapidly develop your Terraform templates. Terraform provides modules as a language construct that allow you to abstract away re-usable parts —essentially, configure once and use everywhere. Terraform…

Validating Your Code Engine Application with Iter8

< 1 min read - IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that runs your containerized workloads, including applications. We are excited to announce that you can now run your Service-Level Objectives (SLO) validation experiments on IBM Cloud Code Engine applications by…

How to Use an Ansible Playbook to Manage Secrets for Infrastructure Provisioned on IBM Cloud

Ready for the Job: Twitterbot Recoded

Our Journey with Quarkus

Announcing the General Availability of IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL

The Best of Both Worlds

IBM Cloud Databases for Redis 4.0 End of Life in May 2022

Announcing Configuration Discovery for IBM Cloud

Streaming Capability Now Available in IBM Cloud Monitoring

Supporting Business Continuity with Postgres on IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers for VPC

Supporting Business Continuity with Postgres on IBM Cloud LinuxONE Virtual Servers for VPC

PlasticNet: Saving the Ocean with Machine Learning (IBM Space Tech)

Using IBM Cloud Terraform Modules to Develop Terraform Templates

Validating Your Code Engine Application with Iter8

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