Projects on bluemix

General
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Can projects be used when running on bluemix ?
I have problems getting credentials to work.
I have disabled credentials, and running locally show this:

16 Aug 15:42:18 - [debug] red/runtime/nodes/credentials.load : using active project key - disabled
16 Aug 15:42:18 - [debug] red/runtime/nodes/credentials.load : keyType=disabled

However, when running on bluemix, I get this:

    2019-08-16T15:37:43.59+0200 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT 16 Aug 13:37:43 - [debug] red/runtime/nodes/credentials.load : no user key present
   2019-08-16T15:37:43.59+0200 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT 16 Aug 13:37:43 - [debug] red/runtime/nodes/credentials.load : using default key
   2019-08-16T15:37:43.59+0200 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT 16 Aug 13:37:43 - [debug] red/runtime/nodes/credentials.load : keyType=system

In the later case, decrypting the creds fails.

Thanks
Peter

2

Projects are not a good fit for using directly in the Bluemix environment.

The blog posts you have read (Creating a Node-RED deployment pipeline to IBM Cloud · knolleary) explains why.

The boilerplate is optimised for ease of use and getting started. Applications running in the Cloud Foundry part of IBM Cloud cannot treat their local file system as persistent storage - any time the application is restarted the file system is wiped back to its original state. This is why the Node-RED boilerplate comes with an instance of the Cloudant database service; giving it somewhere to store its flows.

The projects feature relies on the local file system being persistent so it can maintain a git repository there. When running in a Cloud Foundry environment, that file system will be reset whenever the application is restarted.