Hi everybody!

My name is Horea Porutiu and

I'm a software engineer at IBM. Thank you so much for taking the IBM Cloud
Essentials course. I'm very excited to have you In this first module, we're going
to go talk
about the basics about IBM Cloud. We'll cover things such as locations of the IBM
Cloud Datacenters,
Account Types and Support Plans, Billing and Usage, the Cost Estimator, and we'll
end with Identity and Access Management. In this first video that we're about to
start,
we'll go ahead and take a high-level overview and see how to access the IBM Cloud.
We'll
go over the IBM Cloud Console, the IBM Cloud CLI, and the IBM Cloud Shell. Let’s
get into it! IBM Cloud is a combination of Platform as
a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service
(SaaS). Users can deploy over 200 services from containers,
data and AI, to blockchain and more. IBM Cloud maintains 60 data centers worldwide,
enabling local deployment and global scalability. 47 Fortune 50 companies trust
mission-critical
applications on IBM Cloud’s infrastructure. With open-source technologies, such as
Kubernetes,
Red Hat OpenShift, and compute options such as virtual machines and bare metal, you
have
the control and flexibility to support workloads in the environment of your choice.
The IBM Cloud platform is composed of multiple
components that work together to provide a consistent and dependable cloud
experience. The IBM Cloud platform is composed of a robust console that serves as
the front
end for managing your resources, an identity and access management component
for authentication and access control, a catalog consisting hundreds of offerings,
and an account and billing management system that
provides exact usage for pricing plans. One of the main ways of accessing IBM Cloud
is through the IBM Cloud Console. From the console you can: read the Docs to learn
more about products, use the Catalog to create new resources, access the IBM Cloud
resources you have provisioned, use the support tab to open a ticket, and invite
new users using the user management
tab. The IBM Cloud command-line interface (CLI)
allows you to programmatically interact with IBM Cloud through a terminal or shell.
The IBM Cloud CLI is supported by Mac, Linux,
and Windows, extendable with plugins, and available through the Console via the IBM
Cloud Shell terminal To interact with services IBM Cloud provides
API’s (Application Programming Interface) and SDKs (Software Development Kit). For
example, a developer can use the REST
APIs to analyze text content, in the programming language of their choice while
SDKs allow
a developer to target a specific language. SDKs include support for Python,
Node.js,
Java, Swift, and other languages depending on the service. IBM is committed to
providing our clients
with data privacy, security, and governance solutions to assist them in their
journey
to compliance readiness. IBM Cloud is built on best-in-industry security
standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 9001, PCI, and SOC2. Let's look at the IBM
Cloud Console in a little
bit more detail. Here on my dashboard you can see my resource
summary, which is the most important pane. Here you can see the Cloud Foundry
services
I've deployed, my other services I have deployed, storage, and developer tools. You
can also see Classic Infrastructure, your
recent support cases, and any IBM Cloud status here as well. Once you click on
catalog, you'll be brought
to the IBM Cloud products catalog. Here you can quickly search for and create
an instance of whatever product you may want. Next, you may want to go into the
Docs. This will show you the documentation for any
product you want. Next, if you click on the support tab, you'll
go and be able to raise a ticket, and we will explore this later in one of the
modules of
the course. Lastly, in your Manage tab, you can see the
status of your account and any sort of billing and usage, and IAM, which we will
cover later
in the course as well. Here, we also have the IBM Cloud shell. And lastly, we have
the Cost estimator tool.
We'll cover this later in the course as well. To get started with the IBM Cloud
Shell, click
on the icon on the top right. First, we'll check the version of our IBM
Cloud CLI by issuing the command IBM cloud version. Next, we'll list all of our
service instances
on our account by issuing the command IBM Cloud Resource Service-Instance. Here we
see all the instances that are deployed
in our account. Lastly, we will list all of the Kubernetes
clusters we have running with the IBM cloud KS cluster LS command. This is the
basic overview of the IBM cloud. Let's summarize: IBM cloud combines Platform as a
Service (PaaS),
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). IBM cloud has
a catalog of over 200 products
and services covering containers, data and AI Blockchain and more. IBM cloud is
committed to compliance and has
more than 60 data centers globally.