How can I look up a valid label name for use as declared service in IBM Bluemix manifest.yml

Question

Is there a valid list of label names for the "declared services" (https://github.com/IBM/watson-calorie-counter/blob/master/manifest.yml#L4) that can be used in a bluemix deployment documented somewhere?

This blog post describes how to get the label name for a specific service with the UI: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2016/01/deploy-to-bluemix-button-example/ -- But I was hoping there was a single source of truth documented somewhere, or I could find the information programmatically with the cf or bx CLIs.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is the documentation on how the declared-services section work. It is an IBM extension to regular Cloud Foundry manifest files. The extension is described in the IBM Cloud documentation for Continuous Delivery. That section also has details on how to look up the service names, labels:

Declared services, a manifest extension which creates or looks for the required or optional services that are expected to be set up before the app is deployed, such as a data cache service. You can find a list of the eligible Bluemix services, labels, and plans by using the CF Command Line Interface command cf marketplace or by browsing the Bluemix catalog.

So you would look up how a service is named and what plans are offered.