IBM Cloud REST API - documentation? - ibm-cloud

I would like to create Compose instances programmatically on IBM Cloud. Is there any REST API documentation?
Here is the link to the article about Compose API. The author mentioned: "If you want to create new Compose database services on IBM Cloud, use the IBM Cloud bx commands or use equivalent REST APIs."
That's nice and I would really like to use it but the question is where is the documentation of equivalent REST API?

The equivelant api is the Cloud Foundry API on Bluemix.
You will find information about accessing it in this stack overflow question - Bluemix Cloud Foundry REST API
The api itself is documented here - https://apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/237/

Nowadays the best place to start learning about the IBM Cloud API is:
https://cloud.ibm.com/docs?tab=api-docs
From there you can find the API of each IBM Cloud service that offers an API.
Since the body of the question is specifically asking for a infrastructure as code solution, please have a look at the IBM Cloud Schematics service that is based on Terraform.

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Where to find IBM Cloud Function credentials to access it for Watson Assistant

I am searching for the credentials to access my cloud function from Watson assistant. Both are in Dallas region.
I have looked at various docs and blogs, all looks obsolete. I could not find the credentials that could work in Watson Assistant.
Below is one example location where i could not find credentials:
https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/connect-watson-assistant-with-wikipedia-api-via-cloud-functions/
Could someone provide me steps or link to find or generate credentials?
More trials added
https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/assistant?topic=assistant-dialog-actions
above link provide another link that is supposed to show me credentials but no success
Note: I can see CF-based API key for the namespace in London but not in Dallas on link -- https://cloud.ibm.com/functions/namespace-settings
Namespace
Below is a part of Watson json.
"actions": [
{
"name": "Namespace-Y1N/irs/helloworld",
"type": "cloud_function",
"parameters": {
},
"credentials": "$private.my_creds",
"result_variable": "$my_result"
}
]
Below is the cloud function
Well, the official IBM Watson Assistant docs on creating programmatic calls have that information. Look for <reference_to_credentials>. There are instructions on how to access Cloud Functions and extract the API key. Some of that is not needed if working with web actions.
The official tutorial on how to build a database-driven Slackbot with Watson Assistant also offers a way on integrating those credentials once for multiple dialog nodes. It uses a "credential node" to manage the info on how to access Cloud Function actions.
Note that Cloud Functions have the old Cloud Foundry-based namespaces and the new IAM-based namespaces. You can only see the authentication key for the Cloud Foundry namespaces. It seems that your Dallas namespace is new and IAM-enabled.
As an alternative, use the IBM Cloud CLI, log in to your org / space or namespace and then use this command to obtain the Cloud Function properties including the authentication key:
ibmcloud fn property get --auth
Create a new API key. Select Menu(Top-left), Manage, Access (AIM), IBM Cloud API Keys. Create an IBM Cloud API Key, then make sure that you save it somewhere because you will never see the key again. I hope that will help.
Your namespace "Namespade-Y1N" in Dallas is a IAM-enabled namespace. Server-based actions in dialog node of Watson Assistant does not support IAM based authentication. It can only work with CF based namespaces and CF based Cloud foundry functions. This is restriction of Watson Assistant.

API for creating Service credentials in IBM COS

I am using IBM COS for various bucket operations. While I could find various ways of programmatically performing various bucket operations, I was wondering if there are any ways of programmatically(any sdk or rest apis) creating Service credentials as well as editing the policy for a service id?
Yes, there are APIs available to access and manage Cloud IAM
Go to the following API docs to review the available APIs:
IAM Identity Services API
IAM Access Groups API
IAM Policy Management API
Gaurav,
See this doc page to provision an instance of IBM Cloud Object Storage
https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/cloud-object-storage/basics/developers.html#provision-an-instance-of-ibm-cloud-object-storage

How can I access IBM Cloud Compose RabbitMQ logs?

Is there a way to get IBM Cloud Compose for RabbitMQ logs using web interface or cli?
There is Syslog-NG for RabbitMQ and it has other cloud logging services namely papertrail and Loggly providing the webinterface along with two IBM Cloud Compose API calls for logs
Get list of available logfiles
GET /2016-07/deployments/:id/logfiles
Get details of a logfile including download link
GET /2016-07/deployments/:id/logfiles/:logfile_id
To make use of the API, you will need a handful of digital assets; a token for your account to access the IBM Cloud API and a foundation endpoint for your queries. Check this link for details on how to get the token, endpoint and example cURL calls

How to use Swift REST API with Bluemix Object Store?

I want to write a Java program running externally to Bluemix that interacts with the instance of the Bluemix Object Store I have provisioned.
The program will use the Swift REST APIs to interact with the service.
The documentation for how to use the REST API is mainly missing in the service documentation and the OpenStack documentation is not helpful with specifics on how to reach the Bluemix service.
Can someone tell me what headers to set and what URL to use to authenticate with the service, and then what headers to set and what URL to use to further interact with the service ? Where do I find this information for my instance of the service ? It doesn't seem to all be available in the service credentials that are displayed.
Also, do I need to do basic authentication every time a REST call is made, or is there a way to get a token ? Where is that explained ?
The Bluemix Object Storage uses the OpenStack Identity (Keystone) v3 API for authentication. For complete documentation on the REST API, see: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref-identity-v3.html
Since your application will be developed in Java, I'd suggest you use the openstack4j SDK. For example of using openstack4j with Bluemix object storage service, see: https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/connecting-to-ibm-object-storage-for-bluemix-with-java/

Azure REST API - getting identity data

In Amazon cloud API there is the possibility to get identity data, meaning data from the running instance - on which region it is, dns ....
is there the same option in Azure? as I am creating management system in which the server is installed on a virtual machine and I need to know to which region it is related, all this using REST API
In Azure you can use Azure API Management REST API to get all sort of information for Azure:
ex:
Lists all of the resources in a subscription:
https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscription-id}/resources?$top={top}$skiptoken={skiptoken}&$filter={filter}&api-version={api-version}
For the complete documentation look at this page here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn776326.aspx
You can do similar things using Powershell scripts as well.