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Configure for Data (S6)

Learn how to configure ioncli to securely store data with S6.

Summary overview​

ioncli requires a profile configured in the Ionburst credentials file, a well-known directory in the user's home folder.

  • On MacOS/Linux, this file is located at ~/.ionburst/credentials, and
  • on Windows, it is located at %USERPROFILE%\.ionburst\credentials.

An example of the final credentials file should look similar to this. In this example, the credentials profile we will create is called ioncli-example, and the profile is configured to use the Ionburst Cloud eu-west-1 region.

[ioncli-example]
ionburst_id=IBGCFRFEUJ2TDEXAMPLE
ionburst_key=bG9va211bWknbWFiYXNlNjRlbmNvZGVkc3RyaW5n
ionburst_uri=https://api.eu-west-1.ionburst.cloud

ioncli S6 Setup​

Creating the credentials file​

Open a new terminal.

Next, we need to create the .ionburst directory:

mkdir ~/.ionburst

The credentials file can then be created within this directory:

touch ~/.ionburst/credentials

You can now verify this with the following:

ls ~/.ionburst/credentials

On verifying, the output should look similar to this:

[hello@ioncli-example ~]$ ls ~/.ionburst/credentials
/home/hello/.ionburst/credentials

Add a profile to the credentials file​

To create a new profile in the Ionburst credentials file, the following can be used:

echo "[ioncli-example]" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
echo "ionburst_id=IBGCFRFEUJ2TDEXAMPLE" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
echo "ionburst_key=bG9va211bWknbWFiYXNlNjRlbmNvZGVkc3RyaW5n" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
echo "ionburst_uri=https://api.eu-west-1.ionburst.cloud" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials

This will add a profile ioncli-example to the credentials file. Please ensure the >> operator is used to avoid overwriting any existing contents in the credentials file.

The file contents can be verified with the following:

cat ~/.ionburst/credentials

An example output should look similar to:

[hello@ioncli-example ~]$ echo "[ioncli-example]" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
[hello@ioncli-example ~]$ echo "ionburst_id=IBGCFRFEUJ2TDEXAMPLE" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
[hello@ioncli-example ~]$ echo "ionburst_key=bG9va211bWknbWFiYXNlNjRlbmNvZGVkc3RyaW5n" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
[hello@ioncli-example ~]$ echo "ionburst_uri=https://api.eu-west-1.ionburst.cloud" >> ~/.ionburst/credentials
[hello@ioncli-example ~]$ cat ~/.ionburst/credentials
[ioncli-example]
ionburst_id=IBGCFRFEUJ2TDEXAMPLE
ionburst_key=bG9va211bWknbWFiYXNlNjRlbmNvZGVkc3RyaW5n
ionburst_uri=https://api.eu-west-1.ionburst.cloud