eci-cli

ECI is the command-line interface for Elice Cloud Infrastructure.

Launch and manage compute, network, and storage resources from your terminal.

Important

Preview release. Track or open issues at elice-dev/eci-cli.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elice-dev/eci-cli/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Supported platforms:

• macOS (arm64, Apple Silicon)
• Linux (x86_64)

Quick start

eci config init
eci compute vm launch
eci compute ssh <vm-name>

Configure

eci config set api_token <TOKEN>
eci config verify

Read the token from stdin to keep it out of shell history:

echo "$ECI_TOKEN" | eci config set api_token -

Environment variables override the config file: ECI_API_TOKEN, ECI_ZONE_ID, ECI_API_ENDPOINT.

Common tasks

# List VMs
eci compute vm list

# Launch a VM
eci compute vm launch --name vm-1 --instance-type C-4 \
  --image 'Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Standard)' --size-gib 20 --password '...'

# SSH in, or run a remote command
eci compute ssh vm-1
eci compute ssh vm-1 tail -f /var/log/syslog

# Lifecycle
eci compute vm stop vm-1
eci compute vm start vm-1
eci compute vm delete vm-1 --cascade -y

list and get accept --format {table,json,csv} and --query col1,col2.

Other commands

• eci network — vnets, subnets, NICs, public IPs
• eci storage — block storage, object storage, parallel file system
• eci vm-spec — saved launch presets
• eci instance-type, eci image, eci pricing, eci org — read-only catalogs

Run eci <command> -h for usage.

Help

• eci -h for top-level, -h on any subcommand for details.
• Issues: github.com/elice-dev/eci-cli/issues.