The past few months, we have introduced many new worker node profiles for both Kubernetes and OpenShift VPC clusters in IBM Cloud. These new profiles provide more capabilities for more workloads and give you choice when right sizing your cluster. 

Bare Metal Profiles

Unlock maximum performance for your workloads with bare metal VPC profiles (bx2) —now available in our managed OpenShift cloud service. Get the raw power, low latency, and full hardware access your most demanding applications need, without sacrificing the simplicity of a fully managed OpenShift experience. Bare metal worker profiles also enables support for OpenShift Virtualization allowing you to run VMs and containers side-by-side.

Gen3 General Purpose profiles

Boost your application performance with VPC Gen3 profiles, now available in our managed Kubernetes and OpenShift cloud services. Ideal for compute-intensive workloads, these nodes deliver advanced performance, built-in acceleration, and enterprise-grade reliability—all in a fully managed environment. The general purpose 3rd generation virtual server profiles are built atop the 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. A large range of profiles are available in balanced (bx3d), compute-intensive (cx3d), and memory-intensive (mx3d) configurations with up to 176 vCPUs. Each profile also provides attached instance storage.

And more

We also have released new GPU and AI Accelerator profiles. A subsequent blog post will go into more detail on those offerings.

Be sure to check out the detailed VPC flavors doc pages for our Kubernetes and OpenShift services for more details on these new profiles.

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Darrell Schrag, Product Manager, IBM Cloud Kubernetes and OpenShift
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