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changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout. 

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: 

git checkout -b <new-branch-name> 

Note:  The terraform templates contained in this Github repository will be continuously updated by IBM team for upcoming IBM Cloud Private releases. 

2. In order to allow Terraform to access your Cloud account, you need to provide the API username and API key of your IBM Cloud infrastructure account. 

Note:  In case you are not an account owner or Superuser, make sure you have the following permissions with IBM Cloud infrastructure: 

GLYPH<SM590000> Manage Storage. 

GLYPH<SM590000> Manage Security Groups. 

a. Navigate to your user profile on IBM Cloud infrastructure account through opening 

https://control.softlayer.com/account/user/profile . 

b. Copy the API Username and Authentication Key from the portal, as shown in Figure 2-10. 

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c. On your local machine, navigate to terraform-icp-ibmcloud/templates/icp-ee/ . 

d. Create a new file and name it terraform.tfvars  that holds the configurations of your environment. 

