Prerequisites
- IBM Cloud API Key
- IAM Token generated from API Key
- jq installed (Not strictly required but useful for parsing API response)
Export IBM Cloud API Key
You can generate an API Key by navigating to the API Keys page in the IBM Cloud Portal and clicking Create an IBM Cloud API Key. Copy your newly created API Key and export it to your shell session.
export IBMCLOUD_API_KEY=<Your IBM Cloud API Key>
With the API key exported we now need to generate an IAM token in order to interact with the various APIs. The following command will generate a new IAM token from your API Key and store it as the variable iam_token.
iam_token=`curl -s -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-H "Accept: application/json" --data-urlencode "grant_type=urn:ibm:params:oauth:grant-type:apikey" \
--data-urlencode "apikey=${IBMCLOUD_API_KEY}" "https://iam.cloud.ibm.com/identity/token" \
| jq -r '(.token_type + " " + .access_token)'`