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Cloud Foundry CLI

The official command line client for Cloud Foundry.

View the latest help for The v8 CLI -OR- The v7 CLI -OR- The v6 CLI, or run cf assistance -a to view the help for all commands bachelor in your currently installed version.

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Getting Started

Download and install the cf CLI from the Downloads Section for either the v8 cf CLI or the v7 cf CLI or the v6 cf CLI.

Once installed, y'all can log in and push an app. At that place are at present iii supported versions of the cf CLI:

The v8 cf CLI is backed past the v3 CC API (with the exception of plugins). See our v8 documentation for more than information.
The v7 cf CLI is backed by the v3 CC API (with the exception of plugins). Run across our v7 documentation for more information.
The v6 cf CLI is backed by the v2 CC API Run into our v6 documentation for more information.

View our CLI v6 & v7 & v8 Versioning and Back up Policy documentation.

If you accept any questions, ask away on the #cli channel in our Slack community and the cf-dev mailing list, or open a GitHub issue.
You can follow our evolution progress on Cadre CF CLI Pivotal Tracker.

Contributing & Build Instructions

Delight read the contributors' guide

If y'all'd like to submit updated translations, please see the i18n README for instructions on how to submit an update.

Example

Bank check out our community contributed CLI plugins to further enhance your CLI experience.

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Installation instructions

Install V6
Install V7
Install V8
Switching Between Multiple Versions

Known Issues

Note: For most up-to-date information in issues and workarounds delight review the open and closed github issues

On Windows in Cygwin and Git Bash, interactive password prompts (in cf login) exercise not hide the countersign properly from stdout (upshot #1835). Please use an culling command (non-interactive hallmark cf auth instead of cf login) to work around this. Or, use the Windows cmd command line.
On Windows, cf ssh may not display correctly if the TERM is not prepare. Nosotros've found that setting TERM to msys fixes some of these issues.
On Windows, cf ssh volition hang when run from the MINGW32 or MINGW64 crush. A workaround is to employ PowerShell instead.
CF CLI/GoLang exercise not utilize OpenSSL. Custom/Self Signed Certificates need to be installed in specific locations in society to login/auth without --skip-ssl-validation.
API tracing to terminal (using CF_TRACE=true, -v selection or cf config --trace) doesn't work well with some CLI plugin commands. Trace to file works fine. On Linux, CF_TRACE=/dev/stdout works too. See this Diego-Enabler plugin issue for more information.
.cfignore used in cf push button must be in UTF-viii encoding for CLI to interpret correctly. (issue #281)
On Linux, when encountering message "bash: .cf: No such file or directory", ensure that you're using the correct binary or installer for your architecture.
X-Cf-Warnings are printed through the stdout, if that's an inconvenience you could ready CF_RAISE_ERROR_ON_WARNINGS and in that example warnings will exist printed through the stderr. See X-Cf-Warnings printed through stdout issue
False negative message for user org cosmos. CLI v7.0 and CLI v7.i non-admin users with the user-org-cosmos feature flag enabled volition experience a failure when running cf create-org. The command volition explicitly fail attempting to grant the user an org-director office. However, information technology actually succeeds because the user would accept an org-manager role granted to them via CAPI and therefore be able to access their org. This issue is resolved as of CLI v7.2. Encounter Inconsistent v2/v3 behavior effectually creating new orgs + assigning roles.

Filing Bug & Feature Requests

Kickoff, update to the latest cli and try the control again.

If the error remains or feature nevertheless missing, check the open issues and if non already raised please file a new event with the requested details.

Plugin Evolution

The CF CLI supports external code execution via the plugins API. For more information follow:

The CF CLI plugin development guide
The official plugins repository

When importing the plugin code use import "code.cloudfoundry.org/cli/plugin". Older plugins that import github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/plugin will still work equally long they vendor the plugins directory.