bothub-it / portainer-cli

Command line interface to easy communicate to your Portainer application.

Portainer CLI

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Portainer CLI is a Python software to use in command line. Use this command line interface to easy communicate with your Portainer application, like in a continuous integration and continuous deployment environments.

Install

pip install [--user] portainer-cli

Usage

Global flags

Flag	Description
-l or --local	Save and load configuration file (.portainer-cli.json) in current directory.
-d or --debug	Enable DEBUG messages in stdout

configure command

Configure Portainer HTTP service base url.

portainer-cli configure base_url

E.g:

portainer-cli configure http://10.0.0.1:9000/

login command

Identify yourself and take action.

portainer-cli login username password

E.g:

portainer-cli login douglas d1234

create_stack command

Create a stack.

portainer-cli create_stack -n stack_name -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file

E.g:

portainer-cli create_stack -n stack_name -e 1 stack-test -sf docker-compose.yml

Flags

Flag	Description
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-sf or -stack-file	Stack file
-ef or -env-file	Pass env file path, usually .env

update_stack command

Update a stack.

portainer-cli update_stack -s stack_id -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file

E.g:

portainer-cli update_stack -s 18 -e 1 -sf docker-compose.yml

Environment variables arguments

portainer-cli update_stack id -s stack_id -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file --env.var=value

Where var is the environment variable name and value is the environment variable value.

Flags

Flag	Description
-s or -stack-id	Stack id
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-sf or -stack-file	Stack file
-ef or -env-file	Pass env file path, usually .env
-p or --prune	Prune services
-c or --clear-env	Clear all environment variables

create_or_update_stack command

Create or update a stack based on it's name.

portainer-cli create_or_update_stack -n stack_name -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file

E.g:

portainer-cli update_stack -s 18 -e 1 -sf docker-compose.yml

Environment variables arguments

portainer-cli create_or_update_stack -n stack_name -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file --env.var=value

Where var is the environment variable name and value is the environment variable value.

Flags

Flag	Description
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-sf or -stack-file	Stack file
-ef or -env-file	Pass env file path, usually .env
-p or --prune	Prune services
-c or --clear-env	Clear all environment variables

update_stack_acl command

Update acl associated to a stack

portainer-cli update_stack_acl -s stack_id -e endpoint_id -o ownership_type

Remark : you can either update by stack_id or stack_name (-s or -n)

E.g:

portainer-cli update_stack_acl -n stack-test -e 1 -o restricted -u user1,user2 -t team1,team2

Flags

Flag	Description
-s or -stack-id	Stack id
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-o or -ownership-type	Ownership type (admin
-u or -users	Comma separated list of user names (when restricted)
-t or -teams	Comma separated list of team names (when restricted)
-c or -clear	Clear users and teams before updateing them (when restricted)

get_stack_id command

Get stack id by it's name. return -1 if the stack does not exist

portainer-cli get_stack_id -n stack_name -e endpoint_id

E.g:

portainer-cli get_stack_id -n stack-test -e 1

Flags

Flag	Description
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)

update_registry command

Update registry.

portainer-cli update_registry id [-name] [-url]

E.g:

portainer-cli update_registry 1 -name="Some registry" -url="some.url.com/r"

Authentication

You can use authentication passing -a or --authentication flag, but you must pass the -username and -password options.

portainer-cli update_registry 1 -a -username=douglas -password=d1234

request command

Make a request.

portainer-cli request path [method=GET] [data]

E.g:

portainer-cli request status

Flags

Flag	Description
-p or --printc	Print response content in stdout.

Development

This project use Pipenv to manager Python packages.

With Pipenv installed, run make install to install all development packages dependencies.

Run make lint to run flake8 following PEP8 rules.

Run make or make sdist to create/update dist directory.