Creating deployment spaces
Create deployment spaces to store your assets, deploy assets, and manage your deployments.
Required permissions:
All users in your IBM Cloud account with the Editor IAM platform access role for all IAM enabled services or for Cloud Pak for Data can manage create deployment spaces. For details, refer to IAM Platform access roles.
A deployment space is not associated with a project. You can publish assets from multiple projects to a space. For example, you might have a test space for evaluating deployments, and a production space for deployments you want to deploy in business applications.
To create a deployment space:
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From the navigation menu, click Deployments.
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Click New deployment space.
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Give your nąew space a name.
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Optional: Add a description and tags. You can use tags to filter the list of spaces to show just the spaces associated with a tag.
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From the list of Cloud Object Storage (COS) repositories that are associated with your IBM Cloud account, choose a repository to store all your space assets in. If you do not have any COS repositories, you are prompted to create one before proceeding.
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Optional: If you want to be able to deploy assets from your space, from the list of valid Machine Learning instances that are associated with your IBM Cloud account, select a Machine Learning service instance to associate with your space. You can skip this step and associate a Machine Learning instance later. To associate a Machine Learning instance to a space, you must:
- Be a space administrator
- Have Admin access to the Machine Learning service instance that you want to associate with the space. For details on Machine Learning service instances, refer to Creating a Watson Machine Learning service instance.
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Optional: Upload space assets. You can upload an exported project or an exported space. Find or drop the exported .zip file. If the imported space is encrypted, you must type the password in the Password field.
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Click Create.
- To view all deployment spaces that you can access, go to the navigation menu and click **Deployments**.
- To view any of the details about the space after you create it, such as the associated service instance or storage ID, open your deployment space and then click the **Manage** tab.
- Your space assets are stored in a Cloud Object Storage repository. You can access this repository from IBM Cloud. To find the bucket ID, open your deployment space, and click the **Manage** tab.
Learn more
For details on various ways of adding assets to a space and managing them, refer to Assets in deployment spaces.
For information on how to create a space and access its details programmatically, refer to the Notebook on managing spaces.
For any additional details on handling spaces programmatically, refer to the documentation for Python client or REST API.
Parent topic: Deployment spaces