by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Oct 13, 2021 | administration, cloud, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, system management
Reclaim resourcesThis is a quick follow-up to my "To restore or delete" post in which I discussed IBM Cloud resource reclamations and shared some tricks. Today, I have some more details and also want to share with you my best practices on handling...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Oct 11, 2021 | administration, dashdb, DB2, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, migration, nodejs, Python
Over the past 12 months, Db2 on Cloud migrated instances to a new deployment model. It seems to be based on the IBM Cloud Databases model and resulted in a different structure for the service credentials. Previously, Db2 on Cloud instances were accessible on the...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Sep 22, 2021 | administration, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, system management
Resource managementOver the past weeks, I provisioned many resources in my IBM Cloud account. Typical to cloud computing, I also deleted and re-provisioned service instances. As part of that work, I dealt with resource reclamation and sometimes restored services or...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Sep 3, 2021 | chatbot, Docker, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, twitter
A Twitterbot at workSome months ago, I discussed cron-like scheduling on IBM Cloud. One of my personal use cases is to send out tweets. In this post, I am going to look into details, into how I implemented a Twitter bot, deployed it to IBM Cloud Code Engine, and how...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jul 26, 2021 | applications, DB2, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, knowledge center, Python, security
One of the recurring questions I have seen is "how to connect from Python to Db2". I have blogged about Python and Db2 a couple times before. Recently, the question has been popping up again more frequently. From my view, the increased security with mandatory SSL/TLS...
by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jul 20, 2021 | documentation, encryption, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, security
Keep and bring your own keyWhen talking about cloud security and key management systems (KMS) for data encryption, we often hear the terms BYOK and KYOK. But what do they mean and what is the difference? Let me try to explain in this quick write-up. BYOK stands for...
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