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This repository is part of the larger Cloud Insurance Co. project.
In order to deploy the full set of microservices involved, check out the insurance-toolchain repo. Otherwise, you can deploy just the app by following the steps here.
If you do not already have a IBM Cloud account, sign up here
Download and install the IBM Cloud CLI tool
Clone the app to your local environment from your terminal using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/IBM-Cloud/insurance-bot.git
cd
into this newly created directory
Open the manifest.yml
file and change the host
value to something unique. The host you choose will determinate the subdomain of your application's URL: <host>.mybluemix.net
Connect to IBM Cloud in the command line tool and follow the prompts to log in. Download and setup IBM Cloud CLI
ibmcloud login
Use ibmcloud target --cf
to set org and space; Run ibmcloud regions
to find API endpoints.
Create a Cloudant service in IBM Cloud
ibmcloud cf create-service cloudantNoSQLDB Lite insurance-bot-db
Create a Watson Assistant (formerly Conversation) service in IBM Cloud
ibmcloud cf create-service conversation free insurance-bot-conversation
Create an App ID service in IBM Cloud
ibmcloud service create appid "Graduated tier" insurance-bot-appid
Push the app to IBM Cloud
ibmcloud cf push
And voila! You now have your very own instance of the app running on IBM Cloud.
If you do not already have a IBM Cloud account, sign up here
If you have not already, download Node.js and install it on your local machine.
Create a Cloudant service in IBM Cloud
ibmcloud cf create-service cloudantNoSQLDB Lite insurance-bot-db
Create a Watson Assistant (formerly Conversation) service in IBM Cloud
ibmcloud cf create-service conversation free insurance-bot-conversation
Create an App ID service in IBM Cloud
ibmcloud service create appid "Graduated tier" insurance-bot-appid
In the checkout directory, copy the file vcap-local.template.json
to vcap-local.json
. Edit vcap-local.json
and update the credentials for the Cloudant and Watson Assistant (formerly Conversation) services. You can retrieve the service credentials from the IBM Cloud console.
cp vcap-local.template.json vcap-local.json
Install the dependencies
npm install
Run the app locally
npm start
For continuous improvements, refer to the additional improvement section.
See the Cleanup section in the toolchain repository for instructions on how to remove the resources associated with the entire project.
If you find a bug, please report it via the Issues section or even better, fork the project and submit a pull request with your fix! We are more than happy to accept external contributions to this project if they address something noted in an existing issue. In order to be considered, pull requests must pass the initial Travis CI build and/or add substantial value to the sample application.
The primary source of debugging information for your IBM Cloud app is the logs. To see them, run the following command using the Cloud Foundry CLI:
$ cf logs insurance-bot --recent
For more detailed information on troubleshooting your application, see the Troubleshooting section in the IBM Cloud documentation.
See License.txt for license information.