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Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift)

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NameSpace, Node Label Group Tag & AppCat Tags: Reports

Need to have Tag columns in the NameSpace widget view and downloaded spreadsheet view to be able to sort capacity by Node Label Group tag & by AppCat tag. Otherwise this is a tedious process to show the total AppCat's NameSpace Usage by Node L...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Ability to report Namespace quota and suggest quota values based on formula

My customer's challenge is that their OpenShift clusters are full in Request while actual resource consumption is very low. There are thousands of namespaces with request quotas in their environment. They would like to have Turbonomic identify the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Horizontal scaling for CPU

As a user, I’d like to use resource metrics such as CPU and Memory that is captured from Kubeturbo to leverage for a Horizontal Scaling policy on a horizontally scalable k8s service. Note today, the user does have a workaround for CPU. Use Prometu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

CPU pinning workloads

As a user, I’d like to express a tolerance for CPU and memory for whole-core increments, like what we did for throttling. I'd like to set equal CPU request and limit (for OCR). PM update to requirement: We will implement support for rightsizing CP...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Planned for future release

Smart Parking for Pods

IBM Customers have Container Licenses measured by Virtual Processor Cores (VPCs). We would like Turbonomic to have the same Parking capabilities available for Virtual Machines in Public Clouds but for Pods running in Kubernetes and Openshift. So, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Capture Restarts for PODs across time

To give a customer a visibility over how their PODs are performing, if there was any restart happening due to lack of Memory which could help the customer how application pods are performing and also can be used in the POV as how we are helping th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to configure a schedule in our policy CR

For resizing operations (vertical scaling) our users are going to want to control when automatic actions are applied. Via the UI I do see an option to create a policy schedule.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration