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Sign Up for an IBM Cloud Account

You must have a valid IBM Cloud Account to complete exercises in the workshops.

New IBM Cloud accounts default to a new "lite" account version; other IBM Cloud pricing options are available if you wish to upgrade at a later time.

This account provides free access to a subset of IBM Cloud resources, including IBM Cloud Functions. Lite accounts do not need a credit-card to sign up or expire after a set time period, i.e. 30 days.

Developers using "Lite accounts" are restricted to development within a single region. Accounts are automatically assigned to either UK South or US South regions depending on user profile location.

Note IBM Cloud Functions is available in other regions as well if you upgrade from a Lite account.

Create an Account

  1. Open a browser window

  2. Navigate to https://cloud.ibm.com/registration

  3. Fill in the registration page:

    IBM Cloud Registration Form

  4. Select email preferences, read the Terms and Conditions and the click the "Create Account" button:

    IBM Cloud Contact, Privacy and T&C

    You should be directed to verify your account email address:

    Check your email message

  5. Look for the account confirmation email in your inbox:

    IBM Cloud Confirmation Email

    and click Confirm account in the email body which should take you back to IBM Cloud and display a confirmation message:

    Registration confirmed message

  6. Login into IBM Cloud using the account credentials you have registered.

    {% hint style="tip" %} You should be redirected there automatically after confirming the account from the email. Otherwise you can click this link: https://cloud.ibm.com/ {% endhint %}

Verify Default Region

{% hint style="warning" %} Please follow these instructions _ We know it looks boring but trust us! People often skim this part and then complain they can't login into the CLI. These instructions will save you all that inevitable confusion..._ {% endhint %}

Follow these instructions to check which default region your lite account has been assigned.

  1. Open the Cloud Foundry Organizations page

  2. Click the organization name listed in the table. Note that your organization is usually the email address you signed up with

    Cloud Foundry Orgs.

  3. Locate the default organization named dev and check the associated "Region" value listed in the table.

    Cloud Foundry Org. Spaces

    {% hint style="info" %} The value should be either UK South or US South. Remember this as the default region value for the next step (Installing the IBM Cloud CLI). {% endhint %}

{% hint style="success" %} 🎉 Congratulations, you've successfully registered an IBM Cloud account 🎉 {% endhint %}