After I show you how to set up an instance of CouchDB in IBM Cloud, I'll challenge you to connect to it once you have all the information you need to do so.
The json credentials I get for the service account look completely different than the video. It has fields like apikey, iam_apikey_description, iam_apikey_name, iam_role_crn, etc… Using this content in config/cloudant-credentials.json fails to create a connection to the cloud server.
I figured out the problem. When creating the cloudant resource, in the “Available authentication methods” option, you must choose “Use both legacy credentials and IAM”.