Authenticating to Cloudant

There are two authentication methods available for connecting to Cloudant: IBM Cloudant Legacy and IBM Cloud IAM.

IBM Cloudant Legacy

Set the User and Password to your service credentials.

To create an IBM Cloudant service credential:

1. In the IBM Cloud dashboard, go to the Menu icon > Resource List, and open your IBM Cloudant service instance.
2. In the menu, click Service credentials.
3. Click New credential and enter a name for the new credential in the Add new credential window.
4. Click Add. This adds your credentials to the Service credentials table.
5. Click Actions > View credentials and extract the User and Password from the JSON file.

Local Instances

We support Local instances from version 1.1.0 and above.

To authenticate to your local instance:

1. Url: Set to the Url of your local instance. For example: http://localhost:8006
2. User: Set to your Username.
3. Password: Set to your Password.