Where to find IBM Cloud Function credentials to access it for Watson Assistant

Question

I am searching for the credentials to access my cloud function from Watson assistant. Both are in Dallas region.

I have looked at various docs and blogs, all looks obsolete. I could not find the credentials that could work in Watson Assistant.

Below is one example location where i could not find credentials: https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/connect-watson-assistant-with-wikipedia-api-via-cloud-functions/

Could someone provide me steps or link to find or generate credentials?

More trials added

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/assistant?topic=assistant-dialog-actions above link provide another link that is supposed to show me credentials but no success

Note: I can see CF-based API key for the namespace in London but not in Dallas on link -- https://cloud.ibm.com/functions/namespace-settings

Namespace

Below is a part of Watson json.

"actions": [
    {
      "name": "Namespace-Y1N/irs/helloworld",
      "type": "cloud_function",
      "parameters": {
      },
      "credentials": "$private.my_creds",
      "result_variable": "$my_result"
    }
  ]

Below is the cloud function

data_henrik data_henrik · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-25T11:12:02

Well, the official IBM Watson Assistant docs on creating programmatic calls have that information. Look for <reference_to_credentials>. There are instructions on how to access Cloud Functions and extract the API key. Some of that is not needed if working with web actions.

The official tutorial on how to build a database-driven Slackbot with Watson Assistant also offers a way on integrating those credentials once for multiple dialog nodes. It uses a "credential node" to manage the info on how to access Cloud Function actions.

Note that Cloud Functions have the old Cloud Foundry-based namespaces and the new IAM-based namespaces. You can only see the authentication key for the Cloud Foundry namespaces. It seems that your Dallas namespace is new and IAM-enabled.

As an alternative, use the IBM Cloud CLI, log in to your org / space or namespace and then use this command to obtain the Cloud Function properties including the authentication key:

ibmcloud fn property get --auth

Where to find IBM Cloud Function credentials to access it for Watson Assistant

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