Overview

These examples are broken up in to two sections:

Cloud
IaaS (Classic Infrastructure)

Note: The following examples use jq to parse the json output returned by the IBM Cloud CLIs output flag. If you do not have jq installed or cannot install it, you can use IBM Cloud Shell which includes jq by default.

Search Cloud Resources

Search for resource by name

Search for a cloud resource with the name devcluster:

ibmcloud resource search 'name:devcluster'

Search by resource name and return CRN

Perform the same search, but use jq to just return the CRN of the resource:

ibmcloud resource search 'name:devcluster' --output json \
    | jq -r '.items[].crn'

Search by resource tag

Search for all cloud resources with the tag ryantiffany

ibmcloud resource search 'tags:ryantiffany' --output json

Search by resource tag and just return resource names

Search for all cloud resources with the tag env:2022-cde-lab and return just the items name:

ibmcloud resource search 'tags:"env:2022-cde-lab"' --output json \
    | jq -r '.items[].name'

Example Output

ibmcloud resource search 'tags:"env:2022-cde-lab"' --output json \
    | jq -r '.items[].name'
2022-cde-lab-cos-instance
continuous-delivery-2022-cde-lab
pubgw-au-syd-1-2022-cde-lab
subnet-au-syd-1-2022-cde-lab
pubgw-au-syd-2-2022-cde-lab
subnet-au-syd-2-2022-cde-lab
pubgw-au-syd-3-2022-cde-lab
subnet-au-syd-3-2022-cde-lab
vpc-au-syd-2022-cde-lab

Search by resource tag and return resource type

Find all the cloud resources with the tag env:2022-cde-lab and return their resource type:

ibmcloud resource search 'tags:"env:2022-cde-lab"' --output json \
    | jq -r  '.items[].type'

Search Classic Infrastructure

ibmcloud resource search -p classic-infrastructure --output json

Search classic infrastructure by tag

ibmcloud resource search "tagReferences.tag.name:ryantiffany" \
    -p classic-infrastructure --output json

Search classic infrastructure by tag and return resource types

ibmcloud resource search "tagReferences.tag.name:ryantiffany" \
    -p classic-infrastructure --output json \
    | jq -r '.items[].resourceType'

Search by tag and filter by resource type

Search for resources with the tag ryantiffany and use the _objectType filter to just return the Classic Virtual Servers:

ibmcloud resource search "tagReferences.tag.name:ryantiffany \
    _objectType:SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest" \
    -p classic-infrastructure --output json

Search IaaS Virtual instances by Tag and return FQDNs

Search for resources with the tag ryantiffany and use the _objectType filter and jq to just return the FQDN of the servers:

ibmcloud resource search "tagReferences.tag.name:ryantiffany \
    _objectType:SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest" \
    -p classic-infrastructure --output json \
    | jq -r '.items[].resource.fullyQualifiedDomainName'

Search IaaS Virtual instances by Tag and return instance ID’s

ibmcloud resource search "tagReferences.tag.name:ryantiffany \
    _objectType:SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest" \
    -p classic-infrastructure --output json | jq -r '.items[].resource.id'

Resource Search Using the IBM Cloud CLI