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IBM Cloud Code Engine

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What is IBM Cloud Code Engine?

IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and…

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  • Scalability (13)
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  • Services-enabled integration (13)
    7.3
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What is IBM Cloud Code Engine?

IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and…

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What is IBM Cloud Code Engine?

IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it.

With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload serverlessly. That includes long-running containers and batch jobs as well as bursty and short-lived functions. The platform dynamically scales containers according to load, has monitoring, logging and a service mesh “built in.” The vendor states users don't need to choose between long execution times, high resource limits, private networking and scale-to-zero but instead have it all on one fully-managed platform, without needing infrastructure skills.




IBM Cloud Code Engine Features

Platform-as-a-Service Features

  • Supported: Scalability
  • Supported: Services-enabled integration

Additional Features

  • Supported: Fully managed serverless platform
  • Supported: Autoscaling down to zero – and pay only for what you use
  • Supported: Runs container images, source code and batch jobs
  • Supported: Secures apps with TLS and isolation from other workloads
  • Supported: Can connect to cloud managed services

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IBM Cloud Code Engine Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States of America (Dallas), Germany (Frankfurt), Japan (Tokyo)
Supported LanguagesEnglish, German, Japanese, Spanish, French and more. Learn more: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-get-support

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Reviewers rate Scalability highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Code Engine are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used it to deploy a full stack app to manage IoT devices connected to the cloud using Mongo DB. After a while the solution was replaced for a corporate solution using a competitor and the test was concluded. It is just like any other cloud service. It has the IBM behind it but unless we have something to differentiate, price is what will be the main focus.
  • Mimic Docker
  • Control requests
  • Scalability
  • MongoDB integration
  • Become a 3-click product
  • Webinars in bootcamps and fairs
  • Get in touch with the tech community to present the product
  • Invite coders to events
  • Add AI
Every coder has the intention to create an application that becomes bigger and has more users. The problem is scalability. IBM Cloud Code Engine makes it easier to grow. However, integrating your app with several other applications can be a hassle, and connecting them, especially those that are in another platform like GC/AWS/Azure, might prove to be challenging.
Updated: Now we are looking for AI enhancement. The first one to have it will dominate the market.
Bhargav VR Perepa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Code Engine is a managed and serverless PaaS infrastructure that lets customers focus on their core business logic while freeing them up from PaaS related concerns.

Code Engine runs on K8S and scales elastically - incorporating declarative and immutable concepts in solution deployment. It supports multiple programming models and is suitable for many problem spaces.

My customers are trying to use this platform for migrating away from Cloud Foundry appications.
  • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
  • A variety of programming model support
  • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
  • Flexible consumption model
  • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
  • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
  • Improved integration with more IBM and 3rd party provided cloud services
  • Availability in more cloud data centers
  • Added tutorials - specifically with distributed cloud deployments of IBM Code Engine
IBM Code Engine is a very capable and valuable offering and it can make a difference to customer solution deployments. Thanks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our team use Code Engine to create a crawler to collect data from Sharepoint. For me, code engine is good container management tools while we want to create microservice for current project. It is easy to maintain and update the containers. However, the console in the code engine page on IBM does not support features it can support. Many features have to be set on your local machine.
  • Container Mangement
  • Deployment speed
  • Update easily
  • UI
  • Documents
  • Features' number
Code engine is used to create a microservice based on typescript. It works fine as a container to manage the microservice for updating the container fast. However, the UI in the container management pages does not support enough features. Many features need to set on your local machine to ensure it works.
Mike Chegge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Effective scaling platform and the best server performance management platform which helps manage business resources and project workflow. IBM Cloud Code Engine provides the most effective baseline management functionality and to the starting with IBM Cloud Code Engine tools is very simple and the technical help that is provided is excellent and the performance of this software is productive.
  • Easy to manage container images.
  • Effective server management capability.
  • Performance control is excellent.
  • The advance features configuration is very technical.
  • Handling big data across Cloud services.
  • Tracing large transaction information.
IBM Cloud Code Engine functional and very easy to manipulate across its professional dashboard which leads to quality services creation. The individual transaction tracing via the IBM Cloud Code Engine is very tools for the securing the underlying infrastructure and the functions like server performance management through IBM Cloud Code Engine is also easy with excellent experience.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used IBM Cloud Code Engine almost everyday. I worked in a healthcare industry, where the IT technicians are very low on the number and needed to maintain a great deal of resources and hence IBM Cloud Code Engine was our choice. IBM Cloud Code Engine definitely changed the way we work in the company. Many non technicians were able to just use the service with no problems. Definitely recommend it
  • Runs containers well
  • Scales superbly
  • Can Manage only on code
  • A lot of features
  • intimidating to first time users
  • integrations could have been better
It is well suited when the scalability is a factor and the second most important thing about IBM Cloud Code Engine is that it is best when your team is very low. For example, I was the only one on the team and hence the obvious use of this IBM Cloud Code Engine. I recommend in such scenarios.
Patel Sanjay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Impressive Cloud solution and the most suitable choice with basic coding capability. Running container workload via IBM Cloud Code Engine is very effective, and I really love the capability to monitor various dataflow through Cloud service. IBM Cloud Code Engine enables development Engineers to easily manage deployment and the networking functions are perfect.
  • The right choice for containerization.
  • Dataflow easy management.
  • Orchestration.
  • Cloud services monitoring.
  • Some Cloud functions configuration is very technical.
  • Multiple big dataflow management.
  • Different servers management.
All the functions that IBM Cloud Code Engine provides are functional and easy to access on its classy dashboard. IBM Cloud Code Engine is equipped with great functions for Cloud container management and effective workload balancing ability. IBM Cloud Code Engine easily allows secure and very smooth data integration through Cloud service.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our client needed a service to host a web application (Front-end and Back-end) with the specific requirement to have a host that is elastic both vertically and horizontally based on the needs and that there is also the ability to self-adjust based on the volume of requests. The web app also had to be put into containers capable of restarting itself in case of a crash and deploy through a toolchain.
  • Simplicity of use.
  • Containerization.
  • Workload management.
  • It is missing the ability to use a custom domain.
  • It does not have a log built into the service.
  • Changing configuration (increasing vCPU, Ram, instances, etc...) requires the app to be redeployed.
Code Engine is suitable for everyone, whether for small programmers for private projects or for large projects as it offers a versatile service. Very good possibility to start the container based on the request starting from 0 instances and activating it when the URL is called. you could improve the last one as it now takes about 10 seconds (a bit too much).
Lavish Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using IBM cloud code engine for managing our projects[,] It provides us a serverless platform for deployment of our application, our applications were mostly based over [web apps], and char bot, batch jobs, and microservices. IBM cloud code engine serverless computing services helped us with a hassle- and burden-free building and deploying of Kubernetes.
  • More scalable than other platform.
  • Very predictable in how it behaves[.]
  • No need to define size deploy, or scale container clusters yourself[.]
  • It is limited to 100 apps per project[.]
  • Documentation - This can be more detailed and exhaustive. It might be intentional as the complexities are hidden away or abstracted to give an easy start for developers.
Startups or small businesses [organizations] which are working over Platform as [service] definitely should choose IBM Cloud Code engine as [a] serverless platform. It also helps for small execution times and provides high resource limits for operation.
Jeniffer Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by our Coding team to run our websites and all running applications that manage our workflows. It enhances the effective design of relevant and functional workforce management tools to manage production. Editing and customization of websites are easy and can be done quickly. Our programming team finds it easy to code and create keys that ease our application's performance.
  • Running our container workloads.
  • Operating our websites.
  • I have not identified any tool that requires new features.
  • The overall functionality has been effective.
It is well suited in designing the functionality of websites and maintenance of applications. It keeps on updating application performance to meet the most current advanced international standards. It has streamlined Kubernetes infrastructure and created a close working relationship among our teams. We have increased production and achieved our objectives since we can easily measure the productivity performance of all our applications.
Pranav Goel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Developers across our organization utilize IBM Cloud Code Engine for a number of use cases, including running applications, functions, and batch operations. Instead of spending time managing infrastructure and configuring hosting environments, our engineers can concentrate on writing code. IBM Cloud Code Engine provides an end-user experience for developers that is easy, adaptable, and intuitive. While the documentation is a little weak, but a person with prior knowledge can easily be adapted to the workflow very easily.
  • Server-less platform that is automatically managed
  • Pay per use - scale to zero results in an extremely cheap total cost of ownership.
  • There is no need for you to set the size, deploy, or scale container clusters yourself.
  • Auto scaling is always helpful and easy to use.
  • For Bigger projects, the Number of jobs and apps can be increased along with maximum memory consumption.
  • The Documentation can be more extensive for freshers and get more engagements from the newcomers.
  • Moving around the security changes can be tricky and hard to change.
It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using IBM Cloud Code Engine for fully managing our projects. It provides us [as] a serverless platform for deployment of our application; our applications were mostly based over webapps, batch jobs and microservices . IBM Cloud Code Engine serverless computing services helped us with a hassle- and burden-free building and deploying of Kubernetes.
  • More scalable than other platform[s].
  • Private networking is allowed.
  • Serverless platform.
  • Easy running of container and batch jobs.
  • User interface needs to be friendly.
  • Hard to change security.
  • Limited number of projects can be deployed.
Startups or small business organization[s] which are working over [a] Platform as a service definitely should choose IBM Cloud Code Engine as [their] serverless platform. It also helps for small execution times and provides high resource limits for operation.
Sverrir Valgeirsson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Engine is being used at SiB Solutions to host our cloud services. It helps us concentrate on the task of implementing a good service. [It also] takes away most of the infrastructure management, allowing us to provide a stable and fast service while also developing it further in an efficient way. What it especially does is free us from having to learn a lot of different services for each different need we have. [This] is based on open technologies that we already know, and it can take the form we need it to for the different cases we have.
  • Very predictable in how it behaves
  • Extremely easy to use
  • Certificates automatically taken care of
  • Python API lacking
  • Some unclear errors (for example: many revisions in a project [are] not reported, and [it] just doesn't allow more revisions)
  • No possibility to automatically update an application when pushing a new version of a container
It is very well suited for anything that can be put into a container, especially if horizontal scaling is possible with the product you are building. It just works.
Also, [it is well suited] to quickly push things into production, as there is not much ceremony. Just push a container, create application and off you go. Also, it's very appropriate with uneven loads as it easily scales both up and down.

It is less appropriate when [you are using] a static computer or to retain data somehow and you don't want to use network storage of some kind or database (just save things locally).


Yatharth Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM cloud engine provides a completely managed non-server program. It helps in deploying containers and application based on websites, event driving functions, and micro-servers. It has helped us in managing Kubernetes workloads.
  • Doesn't take long execution time.
  • Private networking.
  • Highly scalable.
  • Automatic managed server-less platform
  • Allows autoscaling.
  • Expensive
  • Low security with TLS.
  • Documentation could be more detailed.
  • Some features are not described at all.
It helped us in customizing security and running a personal project with the autoscale up and down method.
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