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title: "IBM Cloud"
description: "Reference for running Calico Open Source on IBM Cloud covering supported networking modes and platform integration notes."
product: "Calico Open Source"
version: "3.32 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/reference/public-cloud/ibm"
---

# IBM Cloud

Calico is installed and configured automatically in your [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service](https://www.ibm.com/products/kubernetes-service/). 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](https://docs.tigera.io/calico/latest/networking/configuring/vxlan-ipip.md) 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](https://www.ibm.com/products/kubernetes-service/). No additional configuration of Calico is necessary.