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Automate the IBM Cloud Schematics workspace refresh by using IBM Cloud Code Engine.

By Suresh Nalli posted 21 hours ago

  

IBM Cloud Schematics is an IBM Cloud service, that delivers Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools as a service. You can use the capabilities of Schematics to consistently deploy and manage your cloud infrastructure environments.
IBM Cloud® Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that runs your containerized workloads, including web apps, micro-services, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. Code Engine even builds container images for you from your source code.
You can use this blog and schedule your schematics jobs in specific time periods.

Step 1: Login IBM Cloud Console.
Open https://cloud.ibm.com/ and login with your credentials.

Step 2: Create Code Engine Project.
IBM Cloud Code Engine →Projects →Create

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Step3: Crate a Code Engine build.
The next step is to setup a code engine build to pull the code from the repository and build the container image.
IBM Cloud Code Engine→Open the Project → Image builds → Image Build →Create.
Code Repo URL: https://github.com/cloud-design-dev/code-engine-schematics-cron.git

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Once the build is configured, then Submit build.

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Step 4: Once the build completes, Create the Code Engine Job.
Jobs → Create → Configure image
Click the Configure image button to be taken to the Container selection menu. Select the image to use and click Done.

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Add the environment variable for both IBMCLOUD_API_KEY and WORKSPACE_ID

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Add the environment variable for IBMCLOUD_API_KEY and WORKSPACE_ID
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IBMCLOUD_API_KEY : Api Key
WORKSPACE_ID: Schematics workspace id.
Once we create the environment variables create the job by clicking on create.

Step 5: Then Event subscriptions
Code Engine → Projects → select your project → Event subscriptions

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Define the timings based on your requirement that is when you would like to trigger the job.

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Done…!

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