Render CLI
in progress
Anurag Goel
Render has a public REST API and SSH access. A CLI would be useful for:
* Tailing service logs
* Connecting to Private Services
* CI/CD workflows
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vaibhavshukla
how to access render console in local Ubuntu terminal
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Dejan Svetec
Coming from Heroku, the command I miss the most is
heroku pg:psql
to connect to the database. Compared to ssh, it's less obvious with psql how to safely use credentials in shell and shell scripts, so it would be great for the CLI to handle it.J
Jake Moffatt
I'd love to see a way to get database connection strings (psql, postgres://) from the render CLI. My use case is that I would like to use the pgsync tool (https://github.com/ankane/pgsync) to transfer selected data from production to a preview database. Currently the workflow requires me to go locate the source and destination URL in the web interface, then copy and paste into my pgsync.yml.
However, it would be nicer if I could have pgsync.yml shell out to render-cli, fetch the proper URL and then it just works. It would be more consistent and less error prone since it's fully automated, while still protecting the credentials/connection strings since nobody is plaintext copy/pasting them anywhere.
Anurag Goel
From Ed Ropple at https://community.render.com/t/release-announcement-render-cli-v0-1-3-now-via-homebrew/8430:
Hey folks! We announced v0.1.0 of the new Render CLI just before the holidays, with more to come. I’ve been cooking on distribution and making it easier for you to get hold of it.
On your Mac (Linux Homebrew isn’t tested but should work as well), you can go:
brew tap render-oss/render
brew install render
And you should have yourself a shiny CLI in a few minutes.
All of this will be getting into our docs pretty soon. We wanted to get this stuff into a good spot before opening it up, but also wanted our community folks to get an early bite at the apple.
Thanks for using Render!
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Marc Köhlbrugge
Anurag Goel: ❤️
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Ed Ropple
Hey folks! We've released the alpha of
render-cli
today. Details over on the community forum: https://community.render.com/t/release-announcement-render-cli-v0-1-0/7424Thanks for your patience, and I look forward to your feedback!
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Ed Ropple
Hey folks - just a heads-up, but this is under active development. The first release will be pretty skinny, as we've been working on getting the core building blocks right before we've pushed for features, but we hear you, and it's underway.
Anurag Goel
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Alec
cli
env
variable updates would be a lovely feature. cron config too :)K
Kurt Wolf
Alec: If you haven't seen it yet, my tool has a command for this: https://github.com/kurtbuilds/render
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Kenneth Luplau-Brøgger
It would be awesome if the CLI could run Blueprints locally.
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elvinas
Would be also amazing to have it run the application console too! E.g. Rails'
rails console
Anurag Goel
elvinas: you use can Render SSH for this! https://render.com/docs/ssh
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jonathan
Anurag Goel: This is a great feature! But from the docs you link to, it looks like you still need to start off in the web dashboard, to find a value to copy and paste to use with command-line ssh.
Compare to
heroku console
, all from the terminal, you are in. Is there an API that could be used to automate the connect/ssh step, to get the ssh username/host? Which could then be further automated by a CLI?
That is a thing people may be looking for for heroku DX parity.
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Michael Young
Anurag Goel agree with jonathan -- it would be nice to simply be able to type
render console -s <service-name>
and have it boot a console. same thing for tailing the logsLoad More
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