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Status Future consideration
Categories Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 12, 2024

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IPv6 support in IBM Cloud VPC and services (like ROKS)

IPv6 is the standard for address space finalized a long time ago. Additionally, services on top of IPv6 infrastructure (for our need, OpenShift in this case) now support IPv6 addressing and SDN as of 2021. IBM Cloud VPC should support IPv6 at least as an IaaS layer, which it does not currently: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-limitations. While it would be even better to support IPv6 in subsequent networking services (load balancing, CNIs for ROKS), at the very least a lack of IPv6 support for virtual servers and bare metal services prevent adoption of IPv6 for an IT organization dependent on IBM Cloud VPC.

Thinking simply of how it should work, a dedicated global address space for IPv6 addresses (of which I assume IBM has an allocation already registered) should be assignable to interfaces for VSI and bare metal. Considering the potential address space (I assume IBM overall has a /48 for IPv6, which is 1 septillion addresses), there should be plenty of addresses to support a global unique address for all VSI and bare metal services across IBM Cloud.

Idea priority High
Needed By Quarter

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