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vultr-cli
The Vultr Command Line Interface
vultr-cli is a command line interface for the Vultr API
Usage:
vultr-cli [command]
Available Commands:
account Display account information
apps Display applications
backups Display backups
bare-metal Commands to manage bare metal servers
billing Display billing information
block-storage Commands to manage block storage
completion Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
container-registry Commands to interact with container registries
cdn Commands to manage your CDN zones
database Commands to manage databases
dns Commands to control DNS records
firewall Commands to manage firewalls
help Help about any command
inference Commands to interact with serverless inference subscriptions
instance Commands to interact with instances
iso Commands to manage ISOs
kubernetes Commands to manage kubernetes clusters
load-balancer Commands to managed load balancers
marketplace Display marketplace information
object-storage Commands to manage object storage
os Display available operating systems
plans Display available plan information
regions Display regions information
reserved-ip Commands to interact with reserved IPs
script Commands to interact with startup scripts
snapshot Commands to interact with snapshots
ssh-key Commands to manage SSH keys
user Commands to manage users
version Display the vultr-cli version
vpc Commands to manage VPCs
vpc2 Commands to manage VPC2 networks
Flags:
--config string config file (default is $HOME/.vultr-cli.yaml)
-h, --help help for vultr-cli
-o, --output string output format [ text | json | yaml ] (default "text")
Use "vultr-cli [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Installation
These are the options available to install vultr-cli
:
- Download a release from GitHub
- From source
- Package Manager
- Arch Linux
- Brew
- OpenBSD (-current)
- Snap (Coming soon)
- Chocolatey
- Docker
GitHub Release
If you are to visit the vultr-cli
releases page. You can download a compiled version of vultr-cli
for you Linux/MacOS/Windows in 64bit.
Building from source
You will need Go installed on your machine in order to work with the source (and make if you decide to pull the repo down).
go install github.com/vultr/vultr-cli/v3@latest
Another way to build from source is to
git clone git@github.com:vultr/vultr-cli.git or git clone https://github.com/vultr/vultr-cli.git
cd vultr-cli
make builds/vultr-cli_(pass name of os + arch, as shown below)
The available make build options are
- make builds/vultr-cli_darwin_amd64
- make builds/vultr-cli_darwin_arm64
- make builds/vultr-cli_linux_386
- make builds/vultr-cli_linux_amd64
- make builds/vultr-cli_linux_arm64
- make builds/vultr-cli_windows_386.exe
- make builds/vultr-cli_windows_amd64.exe
- make builds/vultr-cli_linux_arm
Note that the latter method will install the vultr-cli
executable in builds/vultr-cli_(name of os + arch)
.
Installing on Arch Linux
pacman -S vultr-cli
Installing via Brew
brew install vultr/vultr-cli/vultr-cli
Installing on Fedora
dnf install vultr-cli
Installing on OpenBSD
pkg_add vultr-cli
Docker
You can find the image on Docker Hub. To install the latest version via docker
:
docker pull vultr/vultr-cli:latest
To pull an older image, you can pass the version string in the tag. For example:
docker pull vultr/vultr-cli:v2.15.1
The available versions are listed here.
As described in the next section, you must authenticate in order to use the CLI. To pass the environment variable into docker, you can do so via:
docker run -e VULTR_API_KEY vultr/vultr-cli:latest instance list
This assumes you've already set the environment variable in your shell environment, otherwise, you can pass it in via -e VULTR_API_KEY=<your api key>
Using Vultr-cli
Authentication
In order to use vultr-cli
you will need to export your Vultr API KEY
export VULTR_API_KEY=<your api key>
Examples
vultr-cli
can interact with all of your Vultr resources. Here are some basic examples to get you started:
List all available instances
vultr-cli instance list
Create an instance
vultr-cli instance create --region <region-id> --plan <plan-id> --os <os-id> --host <hostname>
Create a DNS Domain
vultr-cli dns domain create --domain <domain-name> --ip <ip-address>
Utilizing a boolean flag
You should use = when using a boolean flag.
vultr-cli instance create --region <region-id> --plan <plan-id> --os <os-id> --host <hostname> --notify=true
Utilizing the config flag
The config flag can be used to specify the vultr-cli.yaml file path when it's outside the default location (default is $HOME/.vultr-cli.yaml). If the file has the api-key
defined, the CLI will use the vultr-cli.yaml config, otherwise it will default to reading the environment variable for the api key.
vultr-cli instance list --config /Users/myuser/vultr-cli.yaml
Example vultr-cli.yaml config file
Currently the only available field that you can use with a config file is api-key
. Your yaml file will have a single entry which would be:
api-key: MYKEY
CLI Autocompletion
vultr-cli completion
will return autocompletions, but this feature requires setup.
Some guides:
<pre> <h4>Bash:</h4> $ source <(vultr-cli completion bash) <b>To load completions for each session, execute once:</b> <b>Linux:</b> $ vultr-cli completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/vultr-cli <b>macOS:</b> $ vultr-cli completion bash > /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/vultr-cli <h4>Zsh:</h4> <b>If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment, you will need to enable it. You can execute the following once:</b> $ echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc <b>To load completions for each session, execute once:</b> $ vultr-cli completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_vultr-cli" You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect. <h4>fish:</h4> $ vultr-cli completion fish | source <b>To load completions for each session, execute once:</b> $ vultr-cli completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/vultr-cli.fish <h4>PowerShell:</h4> PS> vultr-cli completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression <b>To load completions for every new session, run:</b> PS> vultr-cli completion powershell > vultr-cli.ps1 <b>and source this file from your PowerShell profile.</b> </pre>Contributing
Feel free to send pull requests our way! Please see the contributing guidelines.