Getting the initial admin password

During the initial installation of IBM Cloud® Platform Common Services, which is usually triggered by the first installation of a IBM Cloud Pak® for Integration capability or runtime, a password is generated for the admin user and stored in the secret platform-auth-idp-credentials, in the ibm-common-services namespace.

You can obtain the admin password with the OpenShift Console or the CLI.

Getting the admin password with the OpenShift Console

To get the admin password in the OpenShift Console UI:

  1. Log into the Red Hat OpenShift cluster as a Cluster Administrator..

  2. Navigate to the ibm-common-services project.

  3. In the left navigation menu, click Workloads to expand the selections, then select Secrets. Open the platform-auth-idp-credentials secret.

  4. At the bottom of the Details page, in the Data section, click Reveal Values to get the value for admin_password.

Getting the admin password with the CLI

To get the admin password with the CLI:

  1. Log into the Red Hat OpenShift cluster as a Cluster Administrator..

  2. Click the user icon in the UI and select Copy Login Command.

  3. Use the command provided by OpenShift to log into the cluster from the command line.

  4. Run the following command to extract the password from the secret:

    oc extract secret/platform-auth-idp-credentials -n ibm-common-services --to=-