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metal-cli
This repository is Maintained meaning that this software is supported by Equinix Metal and its community - available to use in production environments.
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- metal-cli
Equinix Metal Command Line Interface
Equinix Metal provides an API-driven bare metal platform that combines the automation experience of the cloud with the benefits of physical, bare metal servers.
The Equinix Metal CLI wraps the Equinix Go SDK allowing interaction with Equinix Metal platform from a command-line interface.
Requirements
- Equinix Metal authentication token.
- Equinix Metal CLI binaries.
Supported Platforms
The Equinix Metal CLI binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X for various architectures including ARM on Linux.
Installation
Install binary from Source
If you have go 1.19 or later installed, you can build and install the latest version with:
go install github.com/equinix/metal-cli/cmd/metal@latest
You can find the installed executable/binary in either $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin folder.
Install binary from Release Download
Download the appropriate Equinix Metal CLI binaries for your platform to the desired location,chmod it and rename it to metal.
Install via Homebrew
If you prefer installing via Homebrew, you can run the following:
brew tap equinix/homebrew-tap
brew install metal-cli
Install via FreeBSD ports
The Equinix Metal CLI tools are available directly from FreeBSD ports:
sudo pkg install -r FreeBSD sysutils/equinix-metal-cli
Configuring your Path
If the directory where your binaries were installed is not already in your PATH environment variable, then it will need to be added.
Choose the steps to follow for your platform to add directory to PATH.
Configure your path in Linux
Linux
If you plan to run the Equinix Metal CLI in a shell on Linux and placed the binary in /home/YOUR-USER-NAME/metal-cli/, then type the following into your terminal:
export PATH=$PATH:/home/$USER/metal-cli
If you plan to run the Equinix Metal CLI in a shell on Linux and your binary is in $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin, then type the following into your terminal:
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
or:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin
You can view the current value of $PATH by running:
echo $PATH
Configure your path in Mac OS/X
Mac OS X
If you plan to run the Equinix Metal CLI in a shell on a Mac, download the darwin binary and placed the it in /Users/YOUR-USER-NAME/metal-cli/, then type the following into your terminal.
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/$USER/metal-cli
If you plan to run the Equinix Metal CLI in a shell on a Mac and your binary is in $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin, then type the following into your terminal:
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
or:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin
You can view the current value of $PATH by running:
echo $PATH
When running the downloaded binary on a Mac, you may be prompted with the following message:
"metal" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified
The binary can be trusted by enabling "App Store and identified developers" in "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General". Any blocked apps will appear in the bottom of this window, where they can be authorized.
Configure your path in Windows
Windows
If you plan to run the Equinix Metal CLI in PowerShell on Windows and placed the binary in c:\metal-cli, then type the following into PowerShell:
$env:Path += ";c:\metal-cli"
If you plan to run the Equinix Metal CLI in PowerShell on Windows and your binary is in $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin, then type the following into PowerShell:
$setx PATH "$($env:path);$GOPATH\bin"
or:
$setx PATH "$($env:path);$HOME\go\bin"
The path can be viewed by running:
echo $env:Path
Shell Completion
Once installed, shell completion can be enabled (in Bash) with source <(metal completion bash) (or for some versions of Bash, `eval "$(metal completion bash)").
Check metal completion -h for instructions to use in other shells.
Authentication
After installing Equinix Metal CLI, configure your account using metal init:
$ metal init
Equinix Metal API Tokens can be obtained through the portal at https://console.equinix.com/.
See https://metal.equinix.com/developers/docs/accounts/users/ for more details.
Token (hidden):
Organization ID []: 87e62b5c-7e4e-4a29-ac40-d5df9535868f
Project ID []: a4e48c3a-6819-485a-822f-81b3845d5aa5
Writing /Users/username/.config/equinix/metal.yaml
The Equinix Metal authentication token can be stored in the $METAL_AUTH_TOKEN environment variable or in JSON or YAML configuration files. The configuration file path can be overridden with the --config flag. The default configuration path is "$HOME/config/equinix/metal.*" (any supported filetype).
Includes and Excludes
Equinix Metal API resource responses may have related resources. These related
resources can be embedded in the result or referred. Referred resources will
only include a Href value, which includes the unique ID of the resource.
Embedded resources will be represented with their full API value, which may
contain additional embedded or referred resources.
The resources that you want embedded can be included in results using
--include. The resources that you want referred can be excluded with
--exclude. By excluding some of the embedded-by-default resources, you can
speed up and reduce the size of responses. By including referred-by-default
resources, you can avoid the round trip of subsequent calls.
metal devices get --project-id $ID --yaml --exclude=ssh_keys,plan --include=project
These arguments are available in any command that returns a response document.
The included and excluded fields requested from the API may differ based on the
output format, for example, for historic reasons, metal projects get --yaml
includes the details of all project members. In the table output format, no
member related fields are displayed and so metal projects get will exclude
the member resource.
Excluding fields needed for the table output will result in an error. Mixing includes and excludes affecting the same top-level field is not supported.
Reference
The full CLI documentation can be found here or by clicking the links below.
Example Syntax
Create a device
metal device create --hostname [hostname] --plan [plan] --metro [metro_code] --operating-system [operating_system] --project-id [project_UUID]
Get a device
metal device get --id [device_UUID]
List projects
metal project get
Get a project
metal project get -i [project_UUID]
Details on all available commands can be found by visiting the reference pages or typing metal [command] --help for more information about the specific command.
Support
For help with this package:
- Open up a GitHub issue here.
- Contact the Equinix Metal Community Slack.
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