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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Please version KubeTurbo helm chart in Chart.yaml when the Helm chart changes

Whenever the Helm chart changes for KubeTurbo, please also update the version number in the associated Chart.yaml file. The Helm chart for deploying KubeTurbo is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo We are wor...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Add Notification Center notifications to your workflow

I would like to be able to automatically post on Slack etc. when there is a Notification Center notification in the workflow. There may be situations where you cannot find a target on holidays or when you are not watching Turbonomic, so we would a...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 2 Planned for future release

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Add top level cloud provider filter to the Action Center Global Environment UI

Currently when starting at the Action Center Global Environment, you have to click on Scale/Volume or Resize/App Component, etc and then select which cloud provider you are interested in. This must be replicated for each level down in the Actions ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic should interact with OpenShift API for delete actions.

Turbonomic should interact with the OpenShift API for delete actions on volumes. This will allow the cluster to clean up necessary objects like the PV and PVC configurations while deleting the backend volume. This would also solve PaaS specific is...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Allow or block access to subscriptions/projects in turbonomic

Turbonomic should have capability to block/allow access to subscriptions or projects even though the owner of the subscription provides access to the service principal. As the target is set to Azure/GCP, we should have some granularity to allow/bl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration