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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Enhanced Placement Rules

Allow for additional inputs into the placement rules. For example: cost of resources within a cluster, network latency of a cluster (ex: edge vs central cloud), networking capacity between locations, cluster hardware capabilities (CPU pinning, GPU...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Omegamon Agent Situational Action Origination Point

In an environment with multiple TEM Servers the agents don't have the option to choose which TEMS will use the action item for a Situational Action. It defaults to the TEMS the agent reports directly to. In my environment I have a TEMS on z/OS and...
over 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Not under consideration

Create an Ansible Playbook that collects compliance evidence from the system.

Use Ansible Automation to built a Playbook that collects the evidence for compliance.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Add automated provisioning of GRC compliance controllers as part of Install of Klusterlet.

Currently, compliance controllers are not installed as part of the cluster install and there is no automated way to install these controllers hence the GRC does not work out of the box and there is no notification on how to fix it.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Create AI Ops capability - Automatic worker node scaling up or down in response to performance issues.

Dynamically Scale up and Down worker nodes base on performance and Cost.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Out of the box automation using Ansible to remediate basic issues found in BoD Environment

Create run-books that can be run out of the box to remediate basic issues found in BoD environment. e.g. restart prometheus at various clusters ( the monitoring not working issue). Restarting Search when it crashes. These can be run manually if ne...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Create policies ( in GRC or other place) to enforce deployment parameters e.g replicas

For production apps, if the deployment does not specify a minimum number of replica ( e.g. 3 or more) then make the deployment have replica =3
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Support app deployment that allows staging of images locally to the cluster before deployment or upgrade

For RO/BO situations with low or unpredictable bandwidth, the deployment needs to take place in a deterministic time. E.g. at shift change. The current deployment model with subscription and pull makes the deployment variable
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Support creating a application yaml for all deployments from catalog if the yaml does not exist

There is enough information available to create a app yaml for apps deployed from the catalog.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Request for new VTMOS Support - Juniper Router MX JunOs 19.* [Netconf/YANG enabled]

"Problem: The new OS versions are not currently supported by NCM. Juniper MX Devices with OS version 19.* The driver(s) need to be able to support the management of NEs which have NETCONF enabled"
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration