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IBM Orchestrate Developer Edition

IBM Orchestrate Developer Edition - Introduction

The IBM Orchestrate Developer Edition (Orchestrate Dev) is a tool to help developers build and test applications for IBM Orchestrate. You do need entitlement to use it, but it gives you a dedicated environment to work in on you local machine with AI inferencing using cloud hosted services.

TL;DR

  • IBM Orchestrate Developer Edition provides a local development environment for building and testing Orchestrate applications
  • Requires entitlement through IBM Orchestrate or watsonx.ai to access
  • Install via Python package ibm-watsonx-orchestrate from PyPI
  • Uses Lima VM to host containers, requiring significant resources (100GB+ disk space, substantial CPU and memory)
  • Set LIMA_HOME environment variable if using external storage for Lima data
  • Server starts with orchestrate server start command, making API available on port 4321
  • UI starts separately with orchestrate chat start command
  • Authorization credentials for API access found in $HOME/.cache/orchestrate/credentials.yaml
  • Consider local image registry for team environments or isolated networks
  • Use YAML definitions for artifacts to enable automation and easy environment resets