It's on Bluemix!!! Here is my experience with Bluemix: 1. We needed to get bills to send to our accounting department. There is no way to get this out of Bluemix. We needed to contact 5 different people and send 2 different support tickets. 2. At one point we couldn't log into our accounts, the authentication server was down. 3. The docker container doesn't always get internet. Also it sure as hell is guaranteed to n…
Hi hmottestad! I am one of the people working on the IBM container service that's available as part of Bluemix. I am not here in any official capacity, just as someone who wants to understand what the pain points of our customers. Let me start by saying that I understand your pain. As every product on the market, we have issues occasionally, such as the authentication one you mentioned or the networking. However, the…
The networking issue in docker happened for a few days. The "fix" from IBM (after a ticket) was for us to add a 30 second sleep to our containers. Needles to say this wasn't a fix we were happy with.
Tickets were also a huge hassle in the beginning. It was a 10 step process just to submit a ticket. It got better after a while.
We didn't file a ticket about the upload speed for images. I just remember sitting in a meeting realizing that the container had crashed, and when I restarted it it had no internet. So I thought, that while I was at it I would just push a new image with some bug fixes. That worked fine and I got a new container with internet, but pushing the image took more time than the meeting lasted without there being large changes to the image.