Cloudera CDP Command Line Interface

This package provides a unified command line interface to the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) control plane API.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher

Earlier versions of Python are no longer supported for new releases, as of January 2021. Previous CLI releases shall continue to work under earlier Python versions.

Starting with version 0.9.24, the requests and urllib3 libraries are no longer bundled with the CLI. When upgrading, watch for those new dependencies to be installed.

Installation

To install using pip from the cdpcli PyPI project:

$ pip install cdpcli

To install from source:

$ git clone [email protected]:cloudera/cdpcli.git
$ cd cdpcli
$ pip install .

Beta CLI

An alternative CLI exposing beta functionality is available in its own package.

$ pip install cdpcli-beta

Do not install both the regular and beta CLIs in the same Python environment, as they use the same entry points and therefore conflict.

Any features exposed in the beta CLI that are not available in the regular CLI are still under development. They are not yet supported, may not work, and are subject to change in incompatible ways, including removal. Do not rely on beta features for production use.

Configuring

API calls through the CDP CLI require a key pair issued from the CDP control plane. Use the CDP console to generate keys, following documented instructions. Then, run cdp configure to provide the credentials to the CLI.

$ cdp configure
CDP Access Key ID [None]: xxx
CDP Private Key [None]: yyy

Credentials are stored under the "default" profile in $HOME/.cdp/credentials, using the ini file format.

[default]
cdp_access_key_id = xxx
cdp_private_key = yyy

Profiles

If you need to access the API as more than one user, set up a named profile for each user. Each profile stores a separate set of credentials.

$ cdp configure --profile my-other-user

The credentials for a profile are stored in $HOME/.cdp/credentials under a section named for the profile.

Credential Environment Variables

An alternative to storing credentials in $HOME/.cdp/credentials is to pass them using the environment variables CDP_ACCESS_KEY_ID and CDP_PRIVATE_KEY. However, these variables are ignored when the --profile option is used when running the CLI (see below).

Base Endpoint URL and Form Factor

The CLI may be used to access CDP Private Cloud control planes. Contact your control plane administrator to obtain the required base endpoint URL value for your installation. Set the value in $HOME/.cdp/config, another configuration file that uses the ini file format. Create a section named for the profile which should work with the private cloud control plane.

[profile private1]
cdp_endpoint_url = https://cdp-private.example.com

The CLI guesses whether it is using CDP Public Cloud or CDP Private Cloud based on the base endpoint URL. If you find that it is guessing incorrectly, you can configure use of either form factor in $HOME/.cdp/config. Valid form factor values are "public" and "private".

[profile private1]
form_factor = private

Running

Basic syntax:

cdp [options] <command> <subcommand> [parameters]

Examples:

$ cdp iam get-user
$ cdp environments describe-environments --environment-name myenv1

Help

For general help, use any of these commands.

$ cdp help
$ cdp --help
$ cdp # no arguments

Most CLI commands correspond to API services. Subcommands correspond to operations in services.

• For help on any command, run its help subcommand, or pass the --help parameter.
• For help on any subcommand, pass the help or --help parameter.

The same help content is available in online API documentation.

Profiles

By default, the CLI uses credentials in the "default" profile. Use a different profile by passing the --profile option.

$ cdp --profile my-other-user iam get-user

Base Endpoint URL and Form Factor

By default, the CLI works with CDP Public Cloud and calculates API endpoints accordingly. If you are using CDP Private Cloud, be sure to provide the base endpoint URL for your private cloud control plane. You can do so by setting it in $HOME/.cdp/config for the desired profile, or through the --endpoint-url option, which supersedes the configuration.

$ cdp --endpoint-url https://other.cdp-private.example.com ...

The CLI guesses whether it is using CDP Public Cloud or CDP Private Cloud based on the base endpoint URL. If you find that it is guessing incorrectly, you can force use of either form factor by either setting it in $HOME/.cdp/config for the desired profile, or through the --form-factor option, which supersedes the configuration. Specifying a form factor does not alter the base endpoint URL in use.

$ cdp --form-factor private ...

License

The CDP CLI is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 with a supplemental license disclaimer.