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    Getting started with Speech to Text
    Getting started with Speech to Text

    The IBM Watson® Speech to Text service transcribes audio to text to enable speech transcription capabilities for applications. This curl-based tutorial can help you get started quickly with the service. The examples show you how to call the service's POST /v1/recognize method to request a transcript.

    Speech to Text
    • 10 minutes
    • 2025-02-21
    Getting started with Text to Speech
    Getting started with Text to Speech

    The IBM Watson® Text to Speech service converts written text to natural-sounding speech to provide speech-synthesis capabilities for applications. This curl-based tutorial can help you get started quickly with the service. The examples show you how to call the service's POST and GET /v1/synthesize methods to request an audio stream.

    Text to Speech
    • 10 minutes
    • 2025-02-21
    Getting started with dialog
    Getting started with dialog

    In this short tutorial, we help you use a dialog to build your first conversation.

    watsonx Assistant
    • 10 minutes
    • 2023-10-03
    Understanding digressions in dialog
    Understanding digressions in dialog

    In this tutorial, you see firsthand how digressions work.

    watsonx Assistant
    • 20 minutes
    • 2023-10-11
    Improving a dialog node with slots
    Improving a dialog node with slots

    In this tutorial, you enhance a simple node with slots that collects the information necessary to make a restaurant reservation.

    watsonx Assistant
    • 2 hours
    • 2023-10-10
    Adding a node with slots to a dialog
    Adding a node with slots to a dialog

    In this tutorial, you add slots to a dialog node to collect multiple pieces of information from a user within a single node. The node that you create collects the information that is needed to make a restaurant reservation.

    watsonx Assistant
    • 30 minutes
    • 2023-10-24
    Building a complex dialog
    Building a complex dialog

    In this tutorial, you create a dialog for an assistant that helps users with inquiries about a fictitious restaurant called Truck Stop Gourmand.

    watsonx Assistant
    • 2 hours
    • 2023-10-10
    Getting started with Container Registry
    Getting started with Container Registry

    IBM Cloud® Container Registry provides a multi-tenant private image registry that you can use to store and share your container images with users in your IBM Cloud account.

    Kubernetes service
    Container Registry
    • 45 minutes
    • 2025-04-10
    Encrypting images for content confidentiality in Container Registry
    Encrypting images for content confidentiality in Container Registry

    You can protect the confidentiality of your IBM Cloud® Container Registry images, and ensure that hosts that aren't trusted can't run the images.

    Key Protect
    Container Registry
    • 2 hours
    • 2025-04-10
    Granting access to Container Registry resources tutorial
    Granting access to Container Registry resources tutorial

    Use this tutorial to find out how to grant access to your resources by configuring IBM Cloud® Identity and Access Management (IAM) for IBM Cloud® Container Registry.

    Container Registry
    • 45 minutes
    • 2025-04-09
    Container Registry and Vulnerability Advisor workflow tutorial
    Container Registry and Vulnerability Advisor workflow tutorial

    Use this tutorial to find out about the basic functions of both IBM Cloud® Container Registry and Vulnerability Advisor.

    Kubernetes service
    Container Registry
    • 2 hours
    • 2025-04-09
    Managing access for apps in compute resources
    Managing access for apps in compute resources

    This tutorial guides you through the steps to centrally manage fine-grained authorization for all applications that are running in a compute resource without creating service IDs or managing the API key lifecycle for applications. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to create a trusted profile, establish trust with compute resources based on specific attributes, and define a policy to assign access to resources.

    Kubernetes service
    Managing your account, resources, and access
    • 15 minutes
    • 2025-04-10
    Managing access for federated users by using trusted profiles
    Managing access for federated users by using trusted profiles

    This tutorial guides you through the steps to automatically grant federated users access to your account based on external identity provider specifications. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to create a trusted profile, establish trust with federated users based on attributes that are defined in your corporate user directory, and define a policy to assign access to resources.

    Kubernetes service
    Managing your account, resources, and access
    • 20 minutes
    • 2025-03-19
    Provisioning an IBM Cloud virtual server for classic infrastructure
    Provisioning an IBM Cloud virtual server for classic infrastructure

    You can provision your virtual server for classic infrastructure by using the IBM Cloud Provider plug-in. Similar to the IBM Cloud virtual server for VPC provision that you provisioned. You need to create another configuration file with the specification for your virtual server instance.

    Kubernetes service
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud,
    Terraform on IBM Cloud
    • 2 hours
    • 2024-05-28
    Resetting the ingestion key that is used by a Kubernetes cluster
    Resetting the ingestion key that is used by a Kubernetes cluster

    If the ingestion key that you use to forward logs from a cluster to an IBM Log Analysis instance in the IBM Cloud is compromised, you must reset the key and update the Kubernetes cluster configuration to use the new ingestion key.

    Kubernetes service
    Log Analysis
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-05-24
    Getting started with IBM Cloudant
    Getting started with IBM Cloudant

    The IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® Getting started tutorial demonstrates how to use the IBM Cloud® dashboard to create an IBM Cloudant service instance and obtain service credentials to connect to it. Finally, it guides you through the creation of a simple, locally hosted web application that uses your IBM Cloudant database.

    Cloudant
    • 20 minutes
    • 2023-04-03
    Creating a backup
    Creating a backup

    This tutorial demonstrates how to use the CouchBackup utility to back up and restore a CouchDB or IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® instance. CouchBackup backs up the database to a file. If the database fails, you can use the backup file to restore the information to an existing database.

    Cloudant
    • 20 minutes
    • 2023-02-20
    Creating and populating a database
    Creating and populating a database

    This tutorial shows you how to use the Python programming language to create an IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® database in your IBM Cloud service instance. You also learn how to populate the database with a simple collection of data.

    Cloudant
    • 15 minutes
    • 2024-09-23
    Using IBM Cloudant Query
    Using IBM Cloudant Query

    In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to create an index and use the index to query the database. You also learn to create different types of queries to more easily find data.

    Cloudant
    • 10 minutes
    • 2023-04-11
    Creating an instance with CLI
    Creating an instance with CLI

    This tutorial shows you how to create an IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® service instance on IBM Cloud® by using the IBM Cloud CLI.

    Cloudant
    • 20 minutes
    • 2024-09-16
    Locating your service credentials
    Locating your service credentials

    You can find the credentials for any service that is associated with your account.

    Cloudant
    • 5 minutes
    • 2023-04-06
    Migrating an instance with legacy credentials and IAM Authentication to IAM Only Authentication
    Migrating an instance with legacy credentials and IAM Authentication to IAM Only Authentication

    When you create a new service credential by using the IBM Cloud Dashboard or the IBM Cloud CLI, it always produces a new username and password combination. This method applies to legacy credentials as well as a new IAM API key. This tutorial guides you through migrating your instance from generating new legacy credentials and IAM API keys to generating new IAM API keys only.

    Cloudant
    • 10 minutes
    • 2023-03-30
    Revoking a credential that is tied to your instance URL
    Revoking a credential that is tied to your instance URL

    In IBM Cloud®, you create a new service credential by using the IBM Cloud Dashboard or the IBM Cloud CLI. This step always produces a new username and password combination as your IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® legacy credentials. As expected, deleting the service credential effectively revokes access for any applications that use those credentials.

    Cloudant
    • 10 minutes
    • 2024-09-11
    Creating a web-based To-Do list
    Creating a web-based To-Do list

    Create a simple web-based to-do list to get familiar with the basic IBM Cloud features.

    Cloudant
    • 2023-04-06
    Using the IBM Cloudant Dashboard
    Using the IBM Cloudant Dashboard

    By using the IBM® Cloudant® for IBM Cloud® Dashboard, you create an IBM Cloudant database, populate the database with data, and retrieve data by using queries or API endpoints. For more information about API endpoints, see the API and SDK reference.

    Cloudant
    • 20 minutes
    • 2023-04-11
    Migrating an Enterprise plan to a Lite or Standard plan
    Migrating an Enterprise plan to a Lite or Standard plan

    Migration from the Enterprise plans to IBM Cloudant Lite or Standard plans includes these tasks, which are described in the following steps.

    Cloudant
    • 30 minutes
    • 2023-04-06
    Migrating from a Lite plan to a Standard plan
    Migrating from a Lite plan to a Standard plan

    Migrating from the free Lite plan to the Standard plan by completing the following tasks.

    Cloudant
    • 15 minutes
    • 2023-04-06
    Finding your IBM Cloudant plan
    Finding your IBM Cloudant plan

    You can subscribe to different IBM Cloudant plans, including the Lite, Standard, or Enterprise plans.

    Cloudant
    • 20 minutes
    • 2023-03-30
    Combining IBM Cloudant with other IBM services
    Combining IBM Cloudant with other IBM services

    Each database technology has its own strengths and weaknesses. Some are built for high availability and data durability (at the expense of more hardware and extra cost). Others favor speed and can churn out blazingly fast queries (but might lose data in a sudden power failure).

    Cloudant
    • 2023-03-30
    Sending SMS notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications
    Sending SMS notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications

    In this tutorial, you learn how to set up IBM Cloud® Monitoring to send alert notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications. For this tutorial IBM Cloud Event Notifications is configured to send SMS notifications to subscribers.

    Event Notifications
    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-10-09
    Sending email notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications
    Sending email notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications

    In this tutorial, you learn how to set up IBM Cloud® Monitoring to send alert notifications to IBM Cloud Event Notifications. For this tutorial IBM Cloud Event Notifications is configured to send email notifications to subscribers.

    Event Notifications
    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-10-09
    Provisioning an IBM Cloud virtual server for VPC
    Provisioning an IBM Cloud virtual server for VPC

    Use IBM Cloud Provider plug-in to provision a VPC, and set up networking for your VPC, and provision a virtual server for VPC in your IBM Cloud account. A VPC allows you to create your own space in IBM Cloud so that you can run an isolated environment in the public cloud with custom network policies.

    Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Terraform on IBM Cloud
    • 2 hours
    • 2025-04-08
    Setting up continuous deployment with Schematics and a DevOps toolchain
    Setting up continuous deployment with Schematics and a DevOps toolchain

    The ibm_cos_bucket example creates an instance of IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Cloud® Activity Tracker, and IBM Cloud® Monitoring.

    Schematics
    • 60 minutes
    • 2024-10-15
    Importing Schematics templates into the IBM Cloud catalog
    Importing Schematics templates into the IBM Cloud catalog

    Understand how to Create your private catalog, manage your private catalog, assign access to the private catalog in IBM Cloud®. And import your Terraform templates as products to make them available to your users. With a private catalog, you can limit the services that you want your users to see and the service settings that they can adjust. This way, you have more control over the type of service that is provisioned in your account and that naming conventions for services and service components are followed in your organization.

    Schematics
    • 30 minutes
    • 2024-10-15
    Configuring an IBM Cloud Logs instance as a target
    Configuring an IBM Cloud Logs instance as a target

    A target is an IBM Cloud resource where you can collect auditing events. Use this tutorial to learn how to configure an IBM Cloud Logs target in the account.

    Activity Tracker Event Routing
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-01-10
    Enforcing private endpoints to configure Activity Tracker Event Routing resources
    Enforcing private endpoints to configure Activity Tracker Event Routing resources

    Use this tutorial to learn how to enforce the use of private endpoints to configure Activity Tracker Event Routing resources in your account.

    Activity Tracker hosted event search
    Activity Tracker Event Routing
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-04-10
    Configuring a Cloud Object Storage target
    Configuring a Cloud Object Storage target

    A target is an IBM Cloud resource where you can collect auditing events. Use this tutorial to learn how to configure a Cloud Object Storage target in the account.

    Activity Tracker Event Routing
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-04-11
    Configuring an Event Streams target
    Configuring an Event Streams target

    You can define an Event Streams topic as an IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing target to send auditing events to other corporate tools such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.

    Activity Tracker Event Routing
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-09-20
    Enforcing private endpoints to configure IBM Cloud Metrics Routing resources
    Enforcing private endpoints to configure IBM Cloud Metrics Routing resources

    Use this tutorial to learn how to enforce the use of private endpoints to configure IBM Cloud Metrics Routing resources in your account.

    Metrics Routing
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-10-09
    Monitoring a Linux bare metal server
    Monitoring a Linux bare metal server

    You can monitor a Bare Metal server with IBM Cloud Monitoring by configuring a monitoring agent in your server. The monitoring agent uses an access key (token) to authenticate with the IBM Cloud Monitoring instance. The monitoring agent acts as a data collector. It automatically collects metrics. You view metrics via the web-based user interface. You can monitor Bare metals in IBM Cloud, on-prem, and in other clouds.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-03-03
    Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster
    Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster

    Use this tutorial to learn how to configure an IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service cluster to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud® Monitoring service. You can monitor clusters in IBM Cloud, on-prem, and in other clouds.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-03-03
    Monitoring Linux hosts on a PowerVS workspace
    Monitoring Linux hosts on a PowerVS workspace

    Use this tutorial to learn how to configure Linux hosts on a PowerVS workspace to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-03-03
    Monitoring an Ubuntu Linux VPC server instance
    Monitoring an Ubuntu Linux VPC server instance

    Use this tutorial to learn how to configure an Ubuntu host to forward metrics to the IBM Cloud Monitoring service in the IBM Cloud.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-03-03
    Monitoring a Windows environment
    Monitoring a Windows environment

    The standard monitoring agent cannot be installed on a Windows platform. To monitor a Windows system with IBM Cloud Monitoring use the Windows Prometheus Bundle to collect the metrics from a Windows system.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-10-09
    Collecting availability metrics by using the Prometheus Blackbox exporter
    Collecting availability metrics by using the Prometheus Blackbox exporter

    The Prometheus Blackbox exporter allows blackbox probing of endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP and ICMP. The monitoring agent can be used in conjunction with the Blackbox exporter to collect availability metrics. The availability metrics can then be alerted upon within IBM Cloud Monitoring to alert users on the availability of the endpoints.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-03-03
    Collecting IPMI device sensor metrics
    Collecting IPMI device sensor metrics

    In addition to the set of metrics that are automatically collected by the monitoring agent, you might want to collect other metrics such as sensor metrics. You can use the Prometheus IPMI Exporter to perform the collection of Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) device sensor metrics.

    Monitoring
    • 1 hour
    • 2025-03-03
    Leveraging context-based restrictions to secure your resources
    Leveraging context-based restrictions to secure your resources

    This tutorial walks you through how to use context-based restrictions as another layer of protection to your resources. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to create network zones and rules that define access restrictions to specific resources based on context in addition to IAM identity. For more information, see What are context-based restrictions?

    Managing your account, resources, and access
    • 20 minutes
    • 2025-01-28
    Getting started with the IBM Cloud CLI
    Getting started with the IBM Cloud CLI

    In this tutorial, you install the latest version of the stand-alone IBM Cloud® Command Line Interface.

    IBM Cloud CLI
    • 30 minutes
    • 2025-04-01
    Getting started with IBM Cloud Shell
    Getting started with IBM Cloud Shell

    In this getting started tutorial, you use IBM® Cloud Shell to clone a sample Node.js app. IBM Cloud Shell is a cloud-based shell workspace that you can access through your browser. Cloud Shell is preconfigured with the full IBM Cloud CLI and tons of plug-ins and tools that you can use to manage apps, resources, and infrastructure.

    Cloud Shell
    • 30 minutes
    • 2025-02-20
    Try out IBM Cloud, for free
    Try out IBM Cloud, for free

    Looking to try out IBM Cloud®? Create an account and start building proof of concepts (POCs) with the many components available in IBM Cloud. You can try Lite and Free service plans to explore IBM Cloud at no cost while learning how to work in the cloud, use Watson, and more. This quick start guide is intended to help you get up and running on IBM Cloud without having to think about costs until you're ready.

    IBM Cloud overview
    • 10 minutes
    • 2024-06-20
    Getting started with App ID
    Getting started with App ID

    Application security can be incredibly complicated. For most developers, it's one of the hardest parts of creating an app. How can you be sure that you are protecting your users information? By integrating IBM Cloud® App ID into your apps, you can secure resources and add authentication; even when you don't have a lot of security experience.

    App ID
    • 10 minutes
    • 2025-05-01
    Quick start: Liberty for Java backend apps
    Quick start: Liberty for Java backend apps

    With App ID, you can easily protect your API endpoints and ensure the security of your Liberty for Java backend applications. With the guide, you can quickly get a simple authentication flow up and running in less than 20 minutes.

    App ID
    • 30 minutes
    • 2025-05-01
    Quick start: Node.js web apps
    Quick start: Node.js web apps

    With App ID, you can easily protect your Node.js front-end web applications. With this guide, you can get a simple authentication flow up and running in less than 20 minutes.

    App ID
    • 20 minutes
    • 2025-05-01
    Customizing your user experience
    Customizing your user experience

    In a world with everything at our finger tips, people expect their experiences to be tailored to them. Whether we're having an in-person conversation or shopping online, we want to see only the things that apply to us. By using this step-by-step guide, you can learn how to harness the power of user attributes and really capture your users attention with App ID.

    App ID
    • 20 minutes
    • 2025-05-01
    Getting started with Secrets Manager
    Getting started with Secrets Manager

    This tutorial focuses on storing and managing a username and password in IBM Cloud® Secrets Manager. With Secrets Manager, you can create, lease, and centrally manage secrets that are used in IBM Cloud services or your custom-built applications. Secrets are stored in a dedicated Secrets Manager instance, built on open source HashiCorp Vault.

    Secrets Manager
    • 10 minutes
    • 2024-11-28
    Getting started with IBM Verify
    Getting started with IBM Verify

    In order to take advantage of what IBM Verify has to offer, you need your own instance.

    IBM Security Verify
    • 10 minutes
    • 2024-05-15
    Connect to a VPC VSIs or Power Virtual Server Instances by using floating IP
    Connect to a VPC VSIs or Power Virtual Server Instances by using floating IP

    After deployment, connect to the landscape via SSH proxy using the jump box's floating IP to access the private IPs of Intel and Power Virtual Server instances.

    Power Systems Virtual Server with VPC landing zone
    • 10 minutes
    • 2025-02-03
    Automating projects actions in your Git repository
    Automating projects actions in your Git repository

    In this tutorial, you learn how to set up a pipeline to trigger an update in your project when configuration changes are merged to the main branch in your repository. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to automate common tasks in a project, such as validating a configuration, by using the pipelines and toolchains of your choosing.

    Running secure workloads
    • 30 minutes
    • 2025-02-07
    Securing data using context-based restrictions
    Securing data using context-based restrictions

    In this tutorial, you will establish context-based restrictions that prevent any access to object storage data unless the request originates from a trusted network zone.

    Object Storage
    • 10 minutes
    • 2024-01-09
    Limiting access to a single Object Storage bucket using the UI
    Limiting access to a single Object Storage bucket using the UI

    IBM Cloud IAM resource groups and access policies allow administrators to restrict user access to various service instances. But what if you are using the IBM Cloud user interface and only need to access a limited number of buckets within a service instance? This can be accomplished using a custom role and a narrowly-tailored IAM policy.

    Object Storage
    • 15 minutes
    • 2024-07-26
    Encrypting a bucket with Key Protect
    Encrypting a bucket with Key Protect

    While all data stored in Cloud Object Storage is automatically encrypted using randomly generated keys, some workloads require that the keys can be rotated, deleted, or otherwise controlled by a key management system (KMS) like Key Protect.

    Object Storage
    • 10 minutes
    • 2025-02-18
    Controlling access to individual objects in a bucket
    Controlling access to individual objects in a bucket

    This tutorial provides examples for how to use IAM access policies with IBM Cloud® Object Storage buckets to grant users access to individual objects within a bucket.

    Object Storage
    • 15 minutes
    • 2024-04-18
    Building a Static Website
    Building a Static Website

    This tutorial shows how to host a static website on IBM Cloud® Object Storage, including creating a bucket, uploading content, and configuring your new website.

    Object Storage
    • 15 minutes
    • 2024-04-18
    Developing a web application
    Developing a web application

    This tutorial shows you how to build a simple image gallery using IBM Cloud® Object Storage, bringing together many different concepts and practices key to web development.

    Object Storage
    • 1 hour
    • 2024-05-09
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