Section 6: Getting Started With IBM Cloud Flashcards
Describe the IBM Lite Account
The Lite account doesn’t expire and your credit card isn’t required.
Name the 3 IBM Account Types
- Lite Account
- Pay-As-You-Go account
- Subscription
Describe the IBM Pay-As-You-Go Account
You only pay for billable services that you use, with no long-term contracts or commitments. You receive a $200 credit when you upgrade.
Describe the IBM Subscription Account
When you purchase a subscription, you commit to a minimum spending amount for a certain period of time and receive a discount on the overall cost.
IBM Cloud® Enterprises
a way to centrally manage billing and resource usage across multiple accounts.
Name / Describe the ways enterprises can be organized
- Organize by Department
- Organize by Geography
- Educational institutions
Identity and Access Management
IAM enables you to securely authenticate users for platform services and control access to resources consistently across IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig
a fully managed, third-party, cloud-native, container-intelligence management system and monitoring service for administrators, DevOps teams, and developers.
IBM Cloud Log Analysis with LogDNA
offers administrators, DevOps teams, and developers advanced features to filter, search, and tail log data, define alerts, and design custom views to monitor application and system logs.
Built logging and monitoring into Red Hat OpenShift
Built-in view of pod logs in the OpenShift web console.
Built-in Prometheus and Grafana deployments in openshift-monitoring project for clumetrics.
Advanced support
Advanced Support is for environments with a limited number of business-critical applications.
Basic support
Basic Support is provided for non-production environments or workloads that don’t require traditional severities and response times.
Premium support
for mission-critical environments that have a strategic dependency on IBM Cloud.
