Service IDs

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Service IDs#

A service ID identifies a service or application similar to how a user ID identifies a user. Service ID management is a platform-level service in IBM Cloud that enables you to manage service IDs under your account. The SDK provides functionality to interact with the service ID API.

Note

The SDK currently only supports retrieving service IDs.

Listing Service IDs#

In the UI, you can view all service IDs in the current account by Top left hamburger menu -> Administration -> Access (IAM) -> Service IDs.

Screenshot of viewing Service IDs

In the SDK, service IDs can be retrieved using Platform.service_ids property. This property returns a ServiceIDs object.

>>> platform.service_ids.get_all()
[...ServiceID(...)...]
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