New datumctl plugins & assistant capabilities

[mattdjenkinson]

datumctl plugins

Manage Datum Cloud's core building blocks from your terminal. Each plugin installs from the official catalog:

datumctl plugin install compute
datumctl plugin install alb
datumctl plugin install network

Compute

Deploy a container to any Datum location in one command, then operate it without leaving the terminal.

• deploy creates or updates a workload. Add --http-port to put it on the internet with a load balancer in the same step.
• scale, restart and rollout resize a workload, restart it, and watch rollouts live.
• logs and exec stream logs and run commands inside an instance.
• build publishes images, and quota shows what your project has left.

Application Load Balancer

Put any site or API behind Datum's global edge, with HTTPS, a web application firewall, and authentication.

• create returns a hostname you can point DNS at straight away.
• hostname add attaches your own domains and shows each one's progress through verification, DNS and certificate issuance.
• route sends paths to different origins. You can split traffic across origins by weight, drain an origin, and turn on health checks.
• waf, auth and header add traffic protection, basic auth and request headers.
• logs shows the requests that actually arrived.

Networks

Private IPv6 networks that span every location your workloads run in.

• create makes a network with its own IPv6 range, with nothing to plan. describe shows every location it has reached and the workloads on it.
• service create gives a workload a stable name and named ports, ready for a load balancer: datumctl alb create shop --network-service api --port http.
• interface list and interface release show which addresses your instances hold, and free ones you no longer need.
• Before deleting anything, the plugin lists what will be affected, and asks you to confirm.

Patch, the Datum assistant

Ask about your project in plain language. Patch reads the real state of your services and tells you what's wrong, who needs to fix it, and how.

• Compute: why a workload isn't running, from quota to a crashing instance.
• Load balancers: why a site isn't serving, traced to the hostname, certificate or origin at fault.
• Networks (new): why a network isn't working in a location, or why a network service isn't receiving traffic. Patch can also create networks and network services for you.
• Safe changes: Patch shows you exactly what it will create or change and waits for your yes before applying.

Chat with Patch in the cloud portal, or from your terminal with datumctl plugin install assistant.