responsibilities.md

copyright	years 2025, 2026
lastupdated	2026-06-03
keywords	responsibilities, rhel ai, instructlab
subcollection	inference

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Understanding your responsibilities when using {{site.data.keyword.short_name}}

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Learn about the management responsibilities and terms and conditions that you have when you use {{site.data.keyword.instructlab_full_notm}}. For a high-level view of the service types in {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} and the breakdown of responsibilities between the customer and {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} for each type, see Shared responsibilities for {{site.data.keyword.cloud_notm}} offerings. {: shortdesc}

Review the following sections for the specific responsibilities for you and for {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} when you use {{site.data.keyword.instructlab_full_notm}}. For the overall terms of use, see {{site.data.keyword.cloud}} Terms and Notices.

Incident and operations management

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Incident and operations management includes tasks such as monitoring, event management, high availability, problem determination, recovery, and full state backup and recovery.

Area	{{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Responsibilities	Your Responsibilities
Logging	{{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} responsibility description	Create an instance of {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} and configure the instance to receive {{site.data.keyword.short_name}} logs. Review logs and make fixes as needed.
Tracking user activity	Send activity tracking events.	Create an instance of {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} and configure the instance to receive {{site.data.keyword.atracker_short}} events from {{site.data.keyword.short_name}} logs. Review user events and make fixes as needed.
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Change management

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Change management includes tasks such as deployment, configuration, upgrades, patching, configuration changes, and deletion.

Area	{{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Responsibilities	Your Responsibilities
Version updates	Provide version updates and patches.	Start or restart jobs on new versions as they are available.
Model deployment for fine-tuning or model alignment	N/A	Deploy the model and update deployments with new versions as needed.
Inference models	Host models for inference.	Edit system prompts and inference settings to achieve the best possible output for your business objectives.
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Identity and access management

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Identity and access management includes tasks such as authentication, authorization, access control policies, and approving, granting, and revoking access.

Area	{{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Responsibilities	Your Responsibilities
User permissions	Align with the IAM controls documented for the IAM operations a client can perform at the service and platform level.	Manage IAM policies with users to give them proper access to use the service based on their needs.
{{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} permissions for model alignment	Use service delegation to read, write, and list objects within the {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} specified when adding a taxonomy.	Give {{site.data.keyword.instructlab_short}} authorization to allow operations on the {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} bucket. Revoke the permissions if they're no longer using the service.
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Security and regulation compliance

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Security and regulation compliance includes tasks such as security controls implementation and compliance certification.

User is responsible for IAM controls. Ensure the data is secured and private.

Area	{{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Responsibilities	Your Responsibilities
Data privacy and access	Ensure data is secured and private.	Use IAM controls to ensure access to data is restricted as needed.
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Disaster recovery

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Disaster recovery includes tasks such as providing dependencies on disaster recovery sites, provision disaster recovery environments, data and configuration backup, replicating data and configuration to the disaster recovery environment, and failover on disaster events.

For more information, see High availability and disaster recovery.

Area	{{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} Responsibilities	Your Responsibilities
Data generation and model alignment	Ensure data generation and model alignment jobs resume after an incident.	Verify job completion after an incident. Sometimes, restarting a job after an incident might be required.
{{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} back up for model alignment	N/A	Ensure data in your {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} bucket is replicated and backed up.
Inference requests	N/A	Ensure inference requests are backed up if needed.
{{site.data.keyword.instructlab_short}} project backup	N/A	Create a back up project.
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