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Getting started with Clever Cloud CLI

In addition to the Clever Cloud console, you can manage your addons and applications from the command line with Clever Tools.

Installing Clever Tools

The clever-tools CLI can be installed through many different channels depending on your system setup.

Via npm

If you already have node/npm on your system, you can run:

npm install -g clever-tools

If you want to install our latest beta release, you can run:

npm install -g clever-tools@beta

On GNU/Linux

Debian/Ubuntu (.deb)

If you are using a GNU/Linux distribution that uses .deb packages like Debian or Ubuntu, you can run:

Make sure you can download https hosted sources package. You may install :

apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates

apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys "379CE192D401AB61"
echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/clevercloud/deb stable main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/clevercloud.list
apt update
apt install clever-tools

NOTES:

  • The .deb packages are hosted on Bintray (their GPG key is required to trust their signed packages).
  • If you want access to the beta channel, you can use this in your sources.list:
echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/clevercloud/deb unstable beta" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

CentOS/Fedora (.rpm)

If you are using a GNU/Linux distribution that uses .rpm packages like CentOS or Fedora, you can run:

curl https://bintray.com/clevercloud/rpm/rpm > /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-clevercloud-rpm.repo
echo "exclude=*beta*" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-clevercloud-rpm.repo
yum install clever-tools

NOTES:

  • The .rpm packages are hosted on Bintray.
  • If you want access to the beta channel, you can omit the second line which contains an exclude option.

Arch Linux

If you are using Arch Linux, the packages can be installed from AUR with this repo: clever-tools-bin. If you don’t know how to use this, you can run:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/clever-tools-bin.git clever-tools
cd clever-tools
makepkg -si

NOTES:

Exherbo

If you are using Exherbo, you can run:

cave resolve repository/CleverCloud -zx1
cave resolve clever-tools-bin -zx

Other distributions (.tar.gz)

If you are using another GNU/Linux distribution, you can download a .tar.gz archive and extract the binary in your PATH:

wget https://clever-tools.clever-cloud.com/releases/latest/clever-tools-latest_linux.tar.gz
tar xvzf clever-tools-latest_linux.tar.gz
cp clever-tools-latest_linux/clever ~/.local/bin/

NOTES:

  • The packages are available on Clever Cloud’s Cellar bucket: clever-tools-latest_linux.tar.gz.
  • You can also retrieve any release (including beta) on this Cellar bucket by replacing latest (path and filename) with the version number you need.

On MacOS

Using homebrew

If you are using MacOS and you have homebrew installed, you can run:

brew install CleverCloud/homebrew-tap/clever-tools

NOTES:

  • If you want access to the beta channel, you can use CleverCloud/homebrew-tap-beta/clever-tools instead.

Using the .tar.gz archive

If you are using MacOS but you don’t have homebrew installed, you can download a .tar.gz archive and extract the binary in your PATH:

curl https://clever-tools.clever-cloud.com/releases/latest/clever-tools-latest_macos.tar.gz
tar xvzf clever-tools-latest_linux.tar.gz
cp clever-tools-latest_linux/clever ~/.local/bin/

NOTES:

  • The packages are available on Clever Cloud’s Cellar bucket: clever-tools-latest_macos.tar.gz.
  • You can also retrieve any release (including beta) on this Cellar bucket by replacing latest (path and filename) with the version number you need.

On Windows

Using chocolatey

If you are using Windows and you have chocolatey installed, you can run:

choco sources add -n=clevercloud -s='https://api.bintray.com/nuget/clevercloud/nupkg'
choco install clever-tools

NOTES:

  • If you want access to the beta channel, you can use choco install --pre clever-tools instead.

Using the .zip archive

If you are using Windows but you don’t have chocolatey installed, you can download a .zip archive and extract the binary in your PATH.

NOTES:

  • The packages are available on Clever Cloud’s Cellar bucket: clever-tools-latest_win.tar.gz.
  • You can also retrieve any release (including beta) on this Cellar bucket by replacing latest (path and filename) with the version number you need.

Enabling autocompletion

The clever-tools CLI comes with a comprehensive auto-completion system. Some installation methods like .deb packages, .rpm packages or brew will try to enable it automatically. If it does not work, try this for bash:

clever --bash-autocomplete-script $(which clever) | sudo tee /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/clever

or this for zsh:

clever --zsh-autocomplete-script $(which clever) | sudo tee /usr/share/zsh/site-functions

Linking your account

To use clever-tools, you have to login.

clever login

It will open the Web console in your browser and reuse your existing session if you’re already logged in.

clever login tries to open a browser through xdg-open on GNU/Linux systems (and in bash for windows). Make sure you have xdg-utils available as well as a default browser set (or you can copy and paste the URL displayed in the console.

Linking an existing application

If you have an already existing application, you can start managing it with Clever Tools.

# First, go to your local repository
cd /path/to/your/application

# Then, link it to the Clever Cloud application
clever link <app_id>

# You can also use the application name (make sure to specify the
# organization name if your application is in an organization.
clever link --org <org_name> <app_name>

# Unlink an application
clever unlink <app_id>

Deploying new code

After having written new code, you can deploy it to Clever Cloud

# Will git push your code to Clever Cloud and display logs
clever deploy

# Will open your application
clever open