Getting Started

Croud CLI is available as a pip package.

Table of Contents

Installation

To install, run:

sh$ pip install croud

To update, run:

sh$ pip install -U croud

Run

Verify your installation, like so:

sh$ croud --version

When using Croud, you must supply a command.

For example:

sh$ croud login

Here, login is supplied as a command. The will open a browser window for you to authenticate with CrateDB Cloud. You will need to do this before issuing any further commands.

From here, you can go on to use commands to manage your configuration values, projects, clusters, organizations, and users.

Command-line options

Croud supports the following command-line options:

Argument

Description

-h, --help

Print the help message, then exits.

-v, --version

Prints the program’s version number, then exits.

Tip

Some Croud commands take additional options.

Shell auto-complete

Croud supports shell auto-completions for bash, zsh and tcsh:

sh$ croud --print-completion {bash,zsh,tcsh}

Refer to the documentation of your specific shell for installation instructions.