Setting up the IBM Cloud Schematics API
Before you begin using the IBM Cloud® Schematics API to deploy IBM Storage Scale, review and complete the following prerequisites:
- Make sure that you have access to an IBM Cloud account and that you generated an IBM Cloud API key to authenticate to IBM Cloud.
- If the GitHub repository that hosts the Terraform code is not public, generate a personal GitHub access token for authentication. If you are using the public IBM GitHub repository, you do not need to complete this task.
- Install the IBM Cloud CLI and login to the IBM Cloud account through the IBM Cloud CLI.
- Install Python 3 or a newer version.
- Follow the IBM Cloud Schematics SDK for Python instructions to set up and install the IBM Cloud Schematics API by using
pip. - Install all of the respective Python application dependencies that your Python code will be using, such as
logging,os,yaml, andjson, which are required when you usepip3to run the application.
Next steps
After you've reviewed and completed the prerequisites for setting up the API, you are ready to Create a workspace.