intial version to support walk milestone and beta version

beta/serverless-fleets/.gitignore

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+*sshkey*
+custom_*
+.rclone*
+data/taskstore/*
+!data/taskstore/.keep
+data/output/*
+!data/output/inferencing/.keep
+!data/output/docling/.keep
+!data/output/wordcount/.keep
+!data/output/simulation/.keep
+*/.DS_Store
+.DS_Store

beta/serverless-fleets/common.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# ==============================
+# COMMON FUNCTIONS
+# ==============================
+
+RED="\033[31m"
+BLUE="\033[94m"
+GREEN="\033[32m"
+ENDCOLOR="\033[0m"
+
+function print_error {
+    echo -e "${RED}\n==========================================${ENDCOLOR}"
+    echo -e "${RED} FAILED${ENDCOLOR}"
+    echo -e "${RED}==========================================\n${ENDCOLOR}"
+    echo -e "${RED}$1${ENDCOLOR}"
+    echo -e ""
+}
+function print_msg {
+    echo -e "${BLUE}$1${ENDCOLOR}"
+}
+function print_success {
+    echo -e "${GREEN}$1${ENDCOLOR}"
+}
+
+# Helper function to check whether prerequisites are installed
+function check_prerequisites {
+    # Ensure that jq tool is installed
+    if ! command -v jq &>/dev/null; then
+        print_error "'jq' tool is not installed"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# ==============================
+# COMMON IBMCLOUD HELPERS
+# ==============================
+
+# helper function to check whether IBM Cloud CLI plugins should get updated, or not
+function ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date() {
+    echo "Checking $1 ..."
+    # check whether plugin is installed
+    if ! ibmcloud plugin show $1 -q >/dev/null; then
+        # install it
+        ibmcloud plugin install $1 -f --quiet
+    else 
+        # check whether there is an update available
+        ibmcloud plugin update $1 -f --quiet
+    fi
+}
+
+function target_region {
+    print_msg "\nTargetting IBM Cloud region '$1' ..."
+    current_region=$(ibmcloud target --output JSON |jq -r '.region|.name')
+    if [[ "$current_region" != "$1" ]]; then
+        ibmcloud target -r $1 --quiet
+    fi
+}
+
+function target_resource_group {
+    print_msg "\nTargetting resource group '$1' ..."
+    current_resource_group_guid=$(ibmcloud target --output JSON |jq -r '.resource_group|.guid')
+    new_resource_group_guid=$(ibmcloud resource group $1 -output json|jq -r '.[0].id')
+    if [[ "$current_resource_group_guid" != "$new_resource_group_guid" ]]; then
+        ibmcloud target -g $1 --quiet
+    fi
+}