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I Just Deleted My Watson Service — I’m Doomed
When you work with smart people, you tend to learn some really cool little tips and tricks. One of the smart people that I work is Josh Cohen, and he learned about a neat little trick for recovering an IBM Cloud service instance that you might have accidentally deleted.
How it’s Done
So let’s assume that you have mistakenly deleted an instance of an IBM Watson service. Some services might be very easy to replace — but others will not be so easy to replace or restore. This will help with those. It will require you to use the IBM Cloud Command Line Interface (CLI), so maybe it would be wise to download that now.
Since this is a command line interfac e (CLI), you will be doing all of these commands from a Terminal window, or Terminal app. Step one of the process is to use the CLI to first obtain a list of your “reclamations” in your account. These “reclamations” are the deleted instances that you have within the last time period (which might be within 7–30 days, depending on the service). You will first need to login to the IBM Cloud, and then you will need to put yourself into the correct account/context. Also note that you might need to update to a newer version of the IBM Cloud CLI. Your login will look like this:
ibmcloud login -u <username> -p <password>
