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Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas

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Configure ICAM and Prometheus/Grafana out of the box to monitor CP4MCM components

ICAM, Prometheus, Event , Ansible remediation must all be confugured out of the box to monitor and event on CP4MCM component's health and automated remediation action. No post install manual configuration should be needed if the component is insta...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future 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
about 5 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
about 5 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.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

CloudPak for MCM API mock framework delivered via the microcks project

http://microcks.github.io/ For partners and clients looking to build integrations to the MCM Ecosystem, having easy access to a definition of the MCM APIs (e.g. event sourcing, security violations, workload management, etc ...) that can be "mocke...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

When importing a template, download the entire set of terraform folders and not just the base folder

We are trying to implement modules for a client, and in this scope we have several individual scripts that accessed the same module. For this to work, we have the module folder one level higher, and then one folder for each of the specific scripts...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Usage and Metering

As an MCM service provider, I’d like to be able to retrieve usage and metering data through our MCM hub via a multi-tenant aware API at relative high frequency (on demand) for billing purposes.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

API Filter for tenants in the integration with grafana

Configuring the Metric API as a Grafana data source Last Updated: 2022-02-24 The Monitoring component provides an API that enables metrics to be accessed using a subset of the PromQL query language. This API provides access to all metrics that a...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Tracking license usage in a multicluster environment: deep dive page: provide detailed VPC breakdown with worker nodes and pods

We are building up a multicluster environment with several IBM Cloud Paks and are using CP4MCM for management. For IBM software compliance our licensing team is working with the licensing dashboard as central source for audit relevant data on lice...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration