Metalhost CLI

Public CLI for AES Metalhost.

The metalhost binary is a human and automation-friendly wrapper around the public Metalhost API and SDK.

Current Status

The CLI is in early public release. It covers the customer-facing command surface for health, catalog, projects, operations, VMs, images, disks, networking, object storage, wallets, quotas, audit, IAM keys, and webhooks.

The VM lifecycle has been validated end-to-end against a lab control plane: metalhost vm create starts an operation and reaches KubeVirt, and metalhost vm delete removes the matching VM resources. Customer production readiness still depends on the service endpoint's capacity checks, VM state reconciliation, persistent boot disk setup, and billing settlement.

Install From Source

go install github.com/AES-Services/metalhost-cli/cmd/metalhost@latest

Download Binaries

Signed release tags publish prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows on the GitHub Releases page. Archives include the metalhost binary, README.md, LICENSE, and a checksums.txt file for verification.

Build From Source

make ci
./bin/metalhost version

Quick Start

metalhost profile create default --endpoint https://api.metalhost.example
metalhost profile use default
metalhost auth login --api-key
metalhost auth whoami

For automation:

METALHOST_ENDPOINT=https://api.example.com \
METALHOST_API_KEY=... \
metalhost auth whoami --format json

Command Surface

The CLI is organized around Metalhost resources:

metalhost catalog datacenter list
metalhost catalog sku list
metalhost project resource list --org organizations/acme
metalhost vm list --project projects/demo
metalhost vm create --project projects/demo --region datacenters/dfw1 --sku skus/vm.cascadelake.c2m4 --image projects/demo/images/ubuntu
metalhost image list --project projects/demo
metalhost disk create --project projects/demo --region datacenters/dfw1 --size-gib 100 --class ssd
metalhost network create --project projects/demo --region datacenters/dfw1 --id app --cidr 10.10.0.0/24
metalhost bucket create app-artifacts --project projects/demo
metalhost bucket object presign-upload app-artifacts --object releases/app.tar.gz
metalhost ops wait operations/01HY...
metalhost wallet list --billing-account billingAccounts/acme
metalhost quota --project projects/demo
metalhost audit search --project projects/demo --since 24h
metalhost iam keys create --display-name ci --project projects/demo

Nested resource groups are available both under their service namespace and as top-level shortcuts where that is nicer for daily use, for example metalhost storage disk list and metalhost disk list.

Configuration

Profiles live in the user config directory by default and can be overridden with --config.

Environment variables override profile values:

METALHOST_ENDPOINT=https://api.metalhost.example
METALHOST_API_KEY=...
METALHOST_PROJECT=projects/demo
METALHOST_REGION=datacenters/dfw1
METALHOST_FORMAT=json

SDK

This CLI uses the public github.com/AES-Services/metalhost-sdk module.

Releases

Maintainers publish releases by pushing a version tag:

VERSION=v0.0.3
git tag -s "$VERSION" -m "$VERSION"
git push origin "$VERSION"

Use the next semver patch/minor tag for subsequent public CLI releases.