Applying a plan

Applying a plan using the UI

1. After you generate a plan in the IBM Cloud console, click Apply plan. This action generates a new log that can be viewed in the Jobs tab.
2. Review the log file for any errors, fix the errors, and then click Apply plan again.
3. After you successfully apply a plan, you can review all of the resources that are deployed under this workspace by clicking the Resources tab.

Applying a plan using the CLI

Run the following command to apply a plan to your workspace:

ibmcloud schematics apply --id <WORKSPACE_ID>

While the resources are being deployed, you can monitor the log files for errors or confirm that the action was completed successfully. This step can take some time based on how many virtual servers are being provisioned as part of your configuration file. Run the following command to monitor your log files:

ibmcloud schematics logs --id <WORKSPACE_ID>

Sample response:

2021/04/05 09:44:54 Terraform apply | Apply complete! Resources: 14 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.
2021/04/05 09:44:54 Terraform apply |
2021/04/05 09:44:54 Terraform apply | Outputs:
2021/04/05 09:44:54 Terraform apply |
2021/04/05 09:44:54 Terraform apply | sshcommand = ssh -J root@52.116.124.67  root@10.241.0.6
2021/04/05 09:44:54 Command finished successfully.
2021/04/05 09:45:00 Done with the workspace action

After the plan is successfully applied, it generates an sshcommand in the Outputs section in the Terraform code. You can use this command to log in to the Spectrum LSF cluster. You can run this SSH command successfully only from systems whose IP addresses were specified in remote_allowed_ips.

Applying a plan using the API

1. To apply a plan by using the IBM Cloud Schematics Python APIs, create a Python file and provide a name of your choice, for example, schematics_apply_plan.py.

2. Copy and paste the Apply a plan using Schematics Python API example request to your Python file.

3. Change the following parameters as part of the request:

   • Replace your IBM Cloud API key to the authenticator = IAMAuthenticator('<ibm-api-key>') variable.
   • Change the API endpoint to the endpoint mentioned in API endpoints according to the location that you want your Schematics workspace to reside, for example, schematics_service.set_service_url('https://us.schematics.cloud.ibm.com').

4. Inside the schematics_service.apply_workspace_command function, provide the following parameters:

   • Provide the workspace ID that you generated in the Creating a workspace task, for example, us-south.workspace.Terraform-Schematics-Python-Workspace.b3bbc9f5.
   • Export your IBM Cloud API key by using the following command:

   export IBMCLOUD_API_KEY =”<ibm-cloud-api-key>”
   

   • Run the following curl command to create a refresh token:

   curl -X POST "https://iam.cloud.ibm.com/identity/token" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d "grant_type=urn:ibm:params:oauth:grant-type:apikey&apikey=$IBMCLOUD_API_KEY" -u bx:bx
   

5. Run the Python script by using python3 <python-file-name> to apply a plan in the IBM Cloud.

6. You get an activity ID in response if the parameters passed as part of the request are valid. You should see the plan being applied in the Schematics workspace that you created in the IBM Cloud console. If you don’t get a successful response, the error response contains the errors that you need to resolve. Resolve those errors and run the script until you are able to get a valid response and apply a plan.

7. If you want to check the logs of the action, see Retrieving action logs with Schematics API to retrieve the logs. The response contains the status of the action, and it appears in either a COMPLETED or FAILED state.

# Apply a plan using Schematics Python API

import json, logging

from ibm_cloud_sdk_core.authenticators import IAMAuthenticator
from ibm_schematics.schematics_v1 import SchematicsV1

logging.basicConfig()
logging.root.setLevel(logging.NOTSET)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.NOTSET)

authenticator = IAMAuthenticator('<ibmcloud-api-key>')

schematics_service = SchematicsV1(authenticator = authenticator)

schematics_service.set_service_url('https://us.schematics.cloud.ibm.com')

logging.info("Started Applying Schematic Plan")

workspace_activity_apply_result = schematics_service.apply_workspace_command(
    w_id='<workspace id>',
    refresh_token='<refresh-token>'
).get_result()

print(json.dumps(workspace_activity_apply_result, indent=2))

logging.info("Completed Applying Schematic Plan")

INFO:root:Started Applying Schematic Plan
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): iam.cloud.ibm.com:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://iam.cloud.ibm.com:443 "POST /identity/token HTTP/1.1" 200 985
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): us.schematics.cloud.ibm.com:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://us.schematics.cloud.ibm.com:443 "PUT /v1/workspaces/us-south.workspace.Schematic-Sunil-Test-Workspace.5a4cbf11/apply HTTP/1.1" 202 49
{
  "activityid": "33bade478b4e93f5c613e4f62943ad9a"
}
INFO:root:Completed Applying Schematic Plan