Turbonomic Previews

Previews

The Turbonomic preview program provides an opportunity for customers to deliver feedback on upcoming features before they are publicly available. These previews help Turbonomic build customer feedback into the product much earlier in the process and affirm its customer-centric design focus. To apply to participate in the program, you must first log in to IBM Community with your IBM ID.

Please contact the PM directly to add your customer to the Preview Program.

Oracle cloud support for VM's and Volumes

IBM Turbonomic is soon to release a Preview that provides intelligent automation for optimizing Oracle Cloud infrastructure, specifically focusing on virtual machines (VMs) and volume.

  • Preview Dates: End of Q1 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: TBD
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

DELETE Actions on Cloud Resources

Turbonomic would allow you to delete resources from the same pane where these actions are generated.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q3 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.3
  • Pre-requisites: Customer must be willing to execute actions and interested in savings.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Cost-Aware Container Actions via Kubecost Integration

Turbonomic container actions now show real-time cost impact using cost data from Kubecost/OpenCost.

  • Preview Dates: Early Q4 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.17.1
  • Pre-requisites: Customer must have a cost data source such as Kubecost or Opencost deployed in cluster and contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Consistent Scaling for Cloud Volume Actions

Introducing a toggle in the UI allowing users to create an automation policy that can enforce a rule to size all the volumes in a group equally.

  • Preview Dates: End of Q4 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.17.1
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Kubeturbo/Prometurbo Auto-Update

A secure and reliable mechanism to ensure Kubeturbo and Prometurbo agents are updated automatically or prevented from connecting with outdated versions to the Turbo server, addressing security risks and maintaining compatibility without compromising cluster integrity.

  • Preview Dates: End of Q3 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.17.1
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Parking Azure Kubernetes Service (Cluster only)

Allowing the discovery of AKS Clusters as Container platform clusters entity, enabling manual and policy driven Parking schedules to realize cost savings and increase operational efficiency

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.16.4
  • Pre-requisites: Azure Target & Kubeturbo Target enabled with right permissions and execute Parking actions on AKS Clusters.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Terraform code-context in Turbonomic

Add GitHub / GitLab / AzureDevOps targets, discover repos with Terraform code. Automatically relate those to deployed workloads by reading Terraform remote state in Workspaces or AWS S3. Entity and Action details contain code-context. Filter and group using code-context.

  • Preview Dates: End of September 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.16.1
  • Pre-requisites: Customer must be an existing Turbonomic user who uses it to optimize cloud resources. Must be using Terraform to describe resources as code and for version control and use one of the following, GitHub, GitLab or AzureDevOps.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Multiple ServiceNow Target Support

  • Preview Dates: Through February 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.14.4
  • Pre-requisites: Two or more instances of ServiceNow (eg: Dev/UAT & Prod) looking to connect to one instance of Turbonomic
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

On-Premises VM Parking

Reduce your energy and carbon footprint by shutting down VMs and hosts in your on-prem datacenter when not in use.

  • Preview Dates: through Q1 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.12.6
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Scaled Powered off VMs

Reduce impact to workloads by taking advantage of planned and expected downtime.

  • Preview Dates: Through January 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.12.3
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly