icmcli get credential

Retrieves service credentials to grant ICM service access to a Lightbits cluster.

Synopsis

Attaching a new Lightbits cluster to the ICM system is a two-step process:

1. Get credentials from the ICM service and add them to the Lightbits cluster.

2. Attach the Lightbits cluster to the ICM system. This is the first step in attaching a Lightbits cluster, Adding ICM generated credentials to a Lightbits cluster.

Invoke this command to get a Base64-encoded public key and the public key ID. The Base64-encoded public key will be saved to at: ~/.local/intelligent-cluster-management/<pubKeyId>.pem. The file should then be copied to the Lightbits cluster:

And then passed as an argument to the following command issued to the relevant cluster:

Examples

Response Type

Returns the ICM service credential: pubKeyId (the credential ID to register on the cluster) and pubKey (the Base64-encoded RSA public key). The public key is also written to ~/.local/intelligent-cluster-management/<pubKeyId>.pem.