---
title: IBM Cloud
description: Calico integration with IBM Cloud.
canonical_url: '/reference/public-cloud/ibm'
---

{{site.prodname}} is installed and configured automatically in your [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service][IBMKUBE].  Default policies are created to protect your Kubernetes cluster, with the option to create your own policies to protect specific services.

## IP-in-IP encapsulation

[IP-in-IP encapsulation][IPIP] is automatically configured to only encapsulate packets traveling across subnets, and uses NAT for outgoing connections from your containers.

## Enabling workload-to-WAN traffic

This is also handled automatically in the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service][IBMKUBE].  No additional configuration of Calico is necessary.

[IPIP]: {{ site.baseurl }}/networking/vxlan-ipip
[IBMKUBE]: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/container-service/
