IBM Certified Containers

IBM Certified Containers are displayed in the Catalog when you filter on the IBM Cloud Paks entry. An IBM Certified Container meets the criteria for a IBM Certified Container, which are more stringent than a typical Helm chart.

An IBM Certified Container meets standard criteria for packaging and deployment of containerized software with platform integrations. The IBM Certified Container meets the following criteria:

Secured:

• Manages container image vulnerabilities
• Follows a least privilege policy, documents privileges required
• Comes from a well known and trusted source (Included in the ImagePolicy)
• Supports secure access considerations (ingress)
• Allows for control of sensitive data

Integrated:

• Deploys easily through catalog integration
• Reports usage through metering integration
• Verifies compatibility through test integration
• Provides support from cloud platform, platform services and software (for products with commercial licenses with support and subscription)
• Accelerates a client to a production topology through out-of-box integrations with additional management services
• Provides simple lifecycle operations for upgrade and rollback through integration with the platform experience, which are consistent across IBM Certified Containers

Lifecycle managed:

• Follows industry standard version management
• Maintains currency with platform versions

Enhanced workload availability criteria:

• Contains a production-grade topology that was written by the product experts
• Supports Kubernetes or custom application self healing and automatic failover
• Provides resiliency and scaling