What is IBM Cloud Private?

IBM® Cloud Private is an application platform for developing and managing on-premises, containerized applications. It is an integrated environment for managing containers that includes the container orchestrator Kubernetes, a private image repository, a management console, and monitoring frameworks.

IBM Cloud Private-CE (Community Edition) delivers a customer-managed container solution for enterprises. IBM also offers managed container services in the cloud. For more information about IBM-managed container offerings, see IBM Containers⁠ website.

Note: This installer image supports Linux on x86_64 systems, Linux® on Power 64-bit LE systems, and Linux® on IBM® Z and LinuxONE (s390x) systems.

Single-arch images are also available:

• ibmcom/icp-inception-amd64
• ibmcom/icp-inception-ppc64le
• ibmcom/icp-inception-s390x

Version 3.2.1-ce is now available!

For more information about the IBM Cloud Private version 3.2.1 release, see the Release notes⁠.

Supported tags

• 3.2.1

The supported tags stand for <IBM Cloud Private-CE version>. The latest tag installs Version 3.2.1.

System requirements

For detailed system requirements for IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1, see System requirements⁠ in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Installation procedure

For information about installing an IBM Cloud Private 3.2.1 cluster, see Installing IBM Cloud Private-CE⁠ in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Community support

• Join the developers on Slack⁠. To get an invitation to join the Slack team, click here⁠.
• Ask a question on Stack Overflow⁠.

License

The Programs listed below are licensed under the following License Information terms and conditions in addition to the Program license terms previously agreed to by Client and IBM. If Client does not have previously agreed to license terms in effect for the Program, the International License Agreement for Non-Warranted Programs (Z125-5589-05) applies.

Program Name (Program Number): IBM Cloud Private-CE 3.2.1 (Community)

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