{"id":4022,"date":"2024-08-08T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudwithease.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2024-08-08T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:04:10","slug":"ibm-cloud-cli-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudwithease.com\/ibm-cloud-cli-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Cloud CLI Commands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#commonly-used-ibm-cloud-cli-commands\">Commonly used IBM Cloud CLI Commands<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"#setup-and-configuration\">Setup and Configuration<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#account-and-resource-management\">Account and Resource Management<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#managing-cloud-foundry-applications\">Managing Cloud Foundry Applications<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#managing-kubernetes-clusters\">Managing Kubernetes Clusters<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#managing-virtual-servers\">Managing Virtual Servers<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#managing-object-storage\">Managing Object Storage<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#managing-databases\">Managing Databases<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#monitoring-and-logging\">Monitoring and Logging<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#help-and-documentation\">Help and Documentation<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>IBM Cloud CLI commands are used to interact with various IBM Cloud services and manage cloud resources from the command line. In the last blog, we discussed about the history, features, architecture and working of <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudwithease.com\/what-is-ibm-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IBM Cloud<\/a>. Here we will discuss some of the commonly used IBM Cloud CLI Commands.<\/p><div id=\"cloud-1765562489\" class=\"cloud-content cloud-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1375203873676133\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1375203873676133\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"8195412531\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"commonly-used-ibm-cloud-cli-commands\"><strong>Commonly used IBM Cloud CLI Commands<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"setup-and-configuration\"><strong>Setup and Configuration<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Login to IBM Cloud:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud login<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Login with an API key:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud login --apikey &lt;API_KEY><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Set target region:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code>ibmcloud target -r &lt;region><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View target settings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud target<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"account-and-resource-management\"><strong>Account and Resource Management<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List organizations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud account orgs<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create a resource group:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud resource group-create &lt;group_name><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List resource groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud resource groups<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Target a specific resource group:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud target -g &lt;group_name><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#fb6a05\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Related:<\/mark><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudwithease.com\/product\/ibm-cloud-cheatsheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IBM Cloud Cheatsheet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"managing-cloud-foundry-applications\"><strong>Managing Cloud Foundry Applications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/topics\/application-modernization\/what-is-cloud-foundry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cloud Foundry<\/a> applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud cf apps<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Push a new Cloud Foundry application:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud cf push &lt;app_name><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"managing-kubernetes-clusters\"><strong>Managing Kubernetes Clusters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List Kubernetes clusters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud ks clusters<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create a Kubernetes cluster<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud ks cluster create &lt;options><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Get configuration for a cluster:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud ks cluster config --cluster &lt;cluster_name><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View worker nodes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud ks workers &lt;cluster_name><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"managing-virtual-servers\"><strong>Managing Virtual Servers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List virtual server instances:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud sl vs list<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create a new virtual server:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud sl vs create &lt;options><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"managing-object-storage\"><strong>Managing Object Storage<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List object storage buckets:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud cos buckets<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create an object storage bucket<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud cos bucket-create --bucket &lt;bucket_name> --class &lt;storage_class> --region &lt;region><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Upload a file to a bucket:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud cos object-put --bucket &lt;bucket_name> --key &lt;file_name> --body &lt;file_path><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"managing-databases\"><strong>Managing Databases<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List databases:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud resource service-instances --service-name &lt;service_name><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Create a database instance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud resource service-instance-create &lt;instance_name> &lt;service_name> &lt;plan> &lt;location><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"monitoring-and-logging\"><strong>Monitoring and Logging<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>List logging instances:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud logging instances<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View logs for an instance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud logging logdna view &lt;instance_name> &lt;options><\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"help-and-documentation\"><strong>Help and Documentation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View general help:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud help<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View help for a specific command:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-background\" style=\"background-color:#daf8f9\"><code><em>ibmcloud &lt;command> --help<\/em><\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Cloud CLI commands are used to interact with various IBM Cloud services and manage cloud 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