Getting started with Acquia CLI¶

Authenticating with Cloud Platform API¶

To begin using Acquia CLI, authenticate against your Cloud Platform account. Open your Terminal and type:

acli auth:login

This command prompts you to open the page from which you can create a Cloud Platform API token in the Cloud Platform user interface.

See the following example:

$ acli auth:login
You will need a Cloud Platform API token from
https://cloud.acquia.com/a/profile/tokens
Do you want to open this page to generate a token now? y
Please enter your API Key: <ENTER API KEY HERE>
Please enter your API Secret: <ENTER API SECRET HERE>
Saved credentials to /home/<user>/.acquia/cloud_api.conf

You can also authenticate in a non-interactive manner through Terminal by providing your tokens as parameters or environment variables. For more information about providing your tokens as parameters, run the following command:

acli auth:login --help

In priority order, Acquia CLI will accept the following:

1. An access token stored in the ACLI_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable with its corresponding ACLI_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRY value

2. An ACLI_KEY environment variable and its corresponding ACLI_SECRET

3. Values defined in ~/.acquia/cloud_api.conf as generated by the acli auth:login command

Setting up SSH access to Cloud Platform environments¶

To interact with Cloud Platform, you must generate and upload an SSH key. This allows you to access your Cloud Platform environments using SSH.

Run the following command:

acli ssh-key:create-upload

Next steps¶

For more information on Acquia CLI, see Acquia CLI commands.