Ali CLI

Wraps the Alibaba Cloud SDK to make complicated tasks a lot simpler.

Installation

Installation is easy, run the following command to install the CLI through Pip:

pip install ali-cli

Then run the CLI using the command ali. You should see the default help output with the supported commands.

Configuration

To connect the CLI to your Alibaba Cloud account, you will either need to use the official Aliyun CLI to configure your credentials or create the configuration manually. To use the CLI, run aliyun configure and follow the prompts. If you don't want to install the official CLI, you can manually create the file ~/.aliyun/config.json with the following contents:

{
  "current": "",
  "profiles": [
    {
      "name": "",
      "mode": "AK",
      "access_key_id": "<ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
      "access_key_secret": "<ACCESS_KEY_SECRET>",
      "sts_token": "",
      "ram_role_name": "",
      "ram_role_arn": "",
      "ram_session_name": "",
      "private_key": "",
      "key_pair_name": "",
      "expired_seconds": 0,
      "verified": "",
      "region_id": "eu-central-1",
      "output_format": "json",
      "language": "zh",
      "site": "",
      "retry_timeout": 0,
      "retry_count": 0
    }
  ]
}

Replace <ACCESS_KEY_ID> with your access key ID and <ACCESS_KEY_SECRET> with your access key secret. Optionally, you can change the region to the region you like (eu-central-1 is Frankfurt).

Usage

Currently, Ali CLI only supports commands related to the Resource Orchestration Service (ROS). This allows you to deploy JSON templates as stacks, so you can use code to define your whole infrastructure.

To deploy an example bucket, run the following command:

ali ros create-stack --name ali-ros-test --template examples/ros/bucket.json --parameters BucketName=my-fancy-bucket

This will create the stack ali-ros-test, using the template in the examples/ros/bucket.json file and specifies the values to use for the template parameters. You can specify multiple parameters if necessary by repeating the --parameters <key>=<val> option as many times as you need. Feel free to modify the stack name and templates if you like. You can also specify - for the template, which means that it will be read from stdin. Type or paste the template in the prompt and press Ctrl-D to send it into the CLI.

To list stacks, run ali ros describe-stacks. This will output all the stacks in the current region.

To delete a stack, run ali ros delete-stack --name ali-ros-test. This will remove the stack you created above, including the provisioned resources.

Although the Alibaba ROS API's only support JSON templates, Ali CLI can also deploy YAML templates. We do this by converting your YAML into JSON before creating the stack. Examples of both JSON and YAML templates can be found in the examples/ros directory.