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Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas

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Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Allow MCM Console UI customization through widgets

While IBM is trying to bring together most of the features in a single pane of glass (individual product consoles slowly getting unfied), there will always be some features specific to customer which should be pluggable by customer. MCM console sh...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Multicloud Manager supports helm v3, not only helm v2.

Now I feel Multicloud Manager can deploy and manage lifecycle remote cluster's Application only from helm v2 chart. My potential customer, OMRON (large precision equipment manufacturer in Japan), expect they can deploy and manage their helm v3 cha...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Automated/semi-automated remediations to address Security and Compliance violations for VMs/Servers

Empower self-healing remediation with low and zero touch for cost avoidance. As a Cloud Admin , I want to be informed about any Security & Compliance deviation in my Client´s environments so I can take the necessary actions to avoid audit issu...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Real time visibility of Security & Compliance posture/state of VMs/Servers

Ensure the clients' environments are managed according to regulatory standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc). Visibility of the posture is the key to enable that. As a Security Analyst (ISA, ISM, GSPM, Security DPE), I need real time visibility about Security...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Team / Org Seperation needed from CloudAutomationManager to AnsibleTower

Customers are setting up a single CAM / Tower system and want to be able to separate the templates and what templates each team can see. Team A: access to tower templates in project ATeam B: access to tower templates in project B Today the teams...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Application and Event monitoring statefulset operators

The community around the operator pattern and the community framework has gained a lot of traction and has matured quite a bit from its original proposal and delivery. There are increasingly more examples of technologies adopting this pattern (htt...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Operator pattern based deployment lifecycle management for the Application and Event monitoring workload

Refactor the ibm-cloud-appmgmt-prod helm chart to be replaced by a go-sdk operator for controlling the deployment lifecycle, administrative and operation tasks of the IBM Cloud App Management workload. Note: Not to be confused with using a helm-ty...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Vertical scaling of Application and Event monitoring stateful services

A means by which to effectively perform vertical scaling of key stateful services in the `ibm-cloud-appmgmt-prod` chart. Today, the stateful services include PersistentVolumeClaims in their pod spec, and use helm values to configure the size of th...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration