Obtaining your IBM entitlement API key
All IBM® Cloud Pak for Data images are accessible from the IBM Entitled Registry. The IBM entitlement API key enables you to pull software images from the IBM Entitled Registry, either for installation or for mirroring to a private container registry.
- Installation phase
- Setting up a client workstation
- Who needs to complete this task?
- Any users who are completing Cloud Pak for Data installation tasks that require the API key.
- When do you need to complete this task?
- You must complete this task if you don't have your IBM entitlement API key.
IBM entitlement API key
You must have your IBM entitlement API key to access images in the IBM Entitled Registry.
To obtain the IBM entitlement API key that is associated with your My IBM
account:
- Log in to Container software library on My IBM with the IBM ID and password that are associated with the entitled software.
- On the Get entitlement key tab, select Copy key to copy the entitlement key to the clipboard.
- Save the API key in a text file.
What's next
Now that you have your API key, complete Determining which components to install.