IBM Cloud Schematics

Use the tools provided by IBM Cloud® Schematics to build and spin up your IBM Cloud environment

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IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation

Automate the provisioning and configuration of your IBM Cloud infrastructure, services, and application stacks across cloud environments. Increase visibility and control over Cloud configuration and provisioning.

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Increase productivity

Speed infrastructure provisioning by automating tasks, and eliminating manual configuration.
Improved consistency

Improve consistency by using pre-defined and re-usable Terraform and Ansible modules and configurations.
More efficient development

Accelerate every phase of the software delivery lifecycle, including sandbox provisioning, QA and more.
Improved ROI

Reduce cloud costs by provisioning resources, only when you require them — allowing automation to manage the provisioning and deletion of resources on-demand.

Offerings

Terraform for automation

Use Terraform to automate the provisioning and configuration of your IBM Cloud resources., Rapidly build, duplicate, and scale complex, multitier cloud environments from reusable templates. For more information, see Schematics Workspaces.

    Ansible playbooks

    Use Ansible playbooks to perform day-2 operations on cloud resources, cloud environments, and app workloads. Whether you want to deploy multi-tier application software, start or stop virtual servers, rotate keys, backup and restore app data, or manage database schemas, simply specify the tasks that you want to run in your playbook and let Schematics securely connect and complete the tasks. For more information about managing Schematics Actions and its features, see Schematics Actions.

    Inventory targets

    Define inventories to specify the targets for Ansible operations with Schematics Actions. Dynamically select hosts deployed using Schematics Workspaces, using resource queries to define the targets for application deployment or operations.

    Enhancing Schematics' ability

    Extend Schematics' ability to provision and configure resources and infrastructure to private isolated cloud networks or on-premise infrastructure. Agents are deployed in your isolated or private network enabling Terraform or Ansible automation jobs to run locally to your systems.

    Terraform for automation

    Use Terraform to automate the provisioning and configuration of your IBM Cloud resources., Rapidly build, duplicate, and scale complex, multitier cloud environments from reusable templates. For more information, see Schematics Workspaces.

      Ansible playbooks

      Use Ansible playbooks to perform day-2 operations on cloud resources, cloud environments, and app workloads. Whether you want to deploy multi-tier application software, start or stop virtual servers, rotate keys, backup and restore app data, or manage database schemas, simply specify the tasks that you want to run in your playbook and let Schematics securely connect and complete the tasks. For more information about managing Schematics Actions and its features, see Schematics Actions.

      Inventory targets

      Define inventories to specify the targets for Ansible operations with Schematics Actions. Dynamically select hosts deployed using Schematics Workspaces, using resource queries to define the targets for application deployment or operations.

      Enhancing Schematics' ability

      Extend Schematics' ability to provision and configure resources and infrastructure to private isolated cloud networks or on-premise infrastructure. Agents are deployed in your isolated or private network enabling Terraform or Ansible automation jobs to run locally to your systems.

      Features

      Seamless Integration

      Schematics works with IBM Cloud resources so you can have your resources and management in one place for IBM Cloud.

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      Drift Detection for IBM Cloud Resources

      Integration of logging and activity tracking for IaC operations provides insights to health and events for your IBM Cloud resources.

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      Built-in security and governance

      Integrate with IBM Cloud IAM, Key Protect, LogDNA, SysDig and more.

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      Collaborative environment

      Have your team build, deploy and iterate on your infrastructure automation processes.

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      Use cases

      IaC automation as-a-service schematics
      IaC automation as-a-service

      Schematics leverages open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies, including Terraform, Ansible, and Git, to offer IaC automation as-a-service. Use Terraform to automate provisioning and lifecycle management of your Cloud resources.

       

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      Day 2 operations with Ansible
      Day 2 operations with Ansible

      Configure cloud resources using Red Hat Ansible — making it easy to run scripted day-2 operations.

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      Cloud hosted operations
      IBM Cloud Hosted Operations
      Cloud Hosted Operations

      Enable collaboration across teams by hosting your Terraform and Ansible IaC operations on IBM Cloud. Centralize the storage of Terraform state, with access control and locking, increase visibility and control of provisioning operations, and generate a real-time previews of resource changes and cost impact.

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      IaC automation as-a-service schematics
      IaC automation as-a-service

      Schematics leverages open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies, including Terraform, Ansible, and Git, to offer IaC automation as-a-service. Use Terraform to automate provisioning and lifecycle management of your Cloud resources.

       

             Learn more
      Day 2 operations with Ansible
      Day 2 operations with Ansible

      Configure cloud resources using Red Hat Ansible — making it easy to run scripted day-2 operations.

             Learn more
      Cloud hosted operations
      IBM Cloud Hosted Operations
      Cloud Hosted Operations

      Enable collaboration across teams by hosting your Terraform and Ansible IaC operations on IBM Cloud. Centralize the storage of Terraform state, with access control and locking, increase visibility and control of provisioning operations, and generate a real-time previews of resource changes and cost impact.

             Learn more

      Resources

      What is Schematics?

      From a single pane of glass, you can run end-to-end automation to build one or more stacks of cloud resources, manage their lifecycle, manage changes in their configurations, deploy your app workloads, and perform day-2 operations.
      Terraform explained

      Terraform is an open source tool that enables you to automate and manage your infrastructure, platform and services using a declarative language.
      Ansible playbooks or Schematics

      With IBM Cloud Schematics, you can run Ansible playbooks or Schematics actions against your IBM Cloud by using the Ansible provisioner in your Terraform configuration file.
      Sample Ansible playbook templates for Schematics actions

      Try an IBM-provided Ansible playbook to perform cloud operations on target hosts or to get started with IBM Cloud® Schematics actions.

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      Improve the DevOps lifecycle, from planning and builds to software testing and application monitoring.

      Hybrid Cloud Solutions

      Manage your hybrid cloud environment to run workloads where and when you need them.

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