Creating a Watson Discovery service instance from the web client

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Use the IBM Cloud Pak for Data web client to create a Watson Discovery service instance.

Alternatively, you can use the command-line interface or the API to create a service instance. For more information, see Creating a Watson Discovery service instance from the command line or Creating a Watson Discovery service instance programmatically.
Permissions you need for this task:
You must be an administrator of the Red Hat® OpenShift® project.
Note: You must be the same person who installed the Watson Discovery service. You can provision an instance only for a Watson Discovery service that you installed.
To create an service instance, complete the following steps:
  1. From the IBM Cloud Pak for Data web client menu, click Services > Instances.
  2. From the instances page, click New instance.
  3. Click the Watson Discovery service tile.
  4. Click New instance.

    You can create a maximum of 10 instances. After you reach the maximum number, the New instance button is not displayed.

  5. Add a name and other details for the service instance, and then click Create.
  6. Wait 1 to 2 minutes for the new instance to be provisioned.

After the new instance is created, the web client shows information about the new service instance, including its URL and credentials in the Access information section of the About this instance page.