Support reading IAM token from environment variable

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
authentication, cli

Research direction

Start by tracing how the ibmcloud CLI reads IAM tokens and ~/.bluemix/config.json. Inspect the authentication path for the proposed IBMCLOUD_IAM_TOKEN input, then verify that a short-lived token can be used without being persisted in config.json.

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Description

We're working on a 1Password Shell Plugin for the ibmcloud CLI, which would add Touch ID authentication for ibmcloud without having secrets on disk.

To fulfill that promise, all we'd need is for ibmcloud to support reading the (short-lived) IAM token from an environment variable, e.g. IBMCLOUD_IAM_TOKEN, so that the ~/.bluemix/config.json file can stay free of secrets.

Dominant language
Go
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35
Forks
53
Avg merge
1d 15h
Merged PRs (30d)
16

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