spacectl
is a utility wrapping Spacelift's GraphQL API for easy programmatic access in command-line contexts - either in manual interactive mode (in your local shell), or in a predefined CI pipeline (GitHub actions, CircleCI, Jenkins etc).
Its primary purpose is to help you explore and execute actions inside Spacelift. It provides limited functionality for creating or editing resources. To do that programatically, you can use the Spacelift Terraform Provider.
Officially supported packages are maintained by Spacelift and are the preferred ways to install spacectl
You can install spacectl
using Homebrew on MacOS or Linux:
brew install spacelift-io/spacelift/spacectl
You can install spacectl
using winget:
winget install spacectl
or
winget install --id spacelift-io.spacectl
spacectl
is distributed as a Docker image, which can be used as follows:
docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/spacelift-io/spacectl stack deploy --id my-infra-stack
Don't forget to add the required environment variables in order to authenticate.
asdf plugin add spacectl
asdf install spacectl latest
asdf global spacectl latest
Alternatively, spacectl
is distributed through GitHub Releases as a zip file containing a self-contained statically linked executable built from the source in this repository. Binaries can be download directly from the Releases page.
We have setup-spacectl GitHub Action that can be used to install spacectl
:
steps:
- name: Install spacectl
uses: spacelift-io/setup-spacectl@main
- name: Deploy infrastructure
env:
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_ENDPOINT: https://mycorp.app.spacelift.io
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.SPACELIFT_API_KEY_ID }}
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_SECRET: ${{ secrets.SPACELIFT_API_KEY_SECRET }}
run: spacectl stack deploy --id my-infra-stack
Disclaimer: These packages are community-maintained, please verify the package integrity yourself before using them to install or update spacectl
.
Install spacectl-bin
from the Arch User Repository (AUR):
yay -S spacectl-bin
Please make sure to verify the PKGBUILD
before installing/updating.
Install spacectl
from the Alpine Repository (alpine packages):
apk add spacectl --repository=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing
Please make sure to verify the APKBUILD
before installing/updating.
Authenticate using spacectl profile login
:
> spacectl profile login my-account
Enter Spacelift endpoint (eg. https://unicorn.app.spacelift.io/): http://my-account.app.spacelift.tf
Select authentication flow:
1) for API key,
2) for GitHub access token,
3) for login with a web browser
Option: 3
Use spacectl 🚀:
> spacectl stack list
Name | Commit | Author | State | Worker Pool | Locked By
stack-1 | 1aa0ef62 | Adam Connelly | NONE | |
stack-2 | 1aa0ef62 | Adam Connelly | DISCARDED | |
To list all the commands available, use spacectl help
:
> spacectl help
NAME:
spacectl - Programmatic access to Spacelift GraphQL API.
USAGE:
spacectl [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
VERSION:
0.26.0
COMMANDS:
module Manage a Spacelift module
profile Manage Spacelift profiles
provider Manage a Terraform provider
run-external-dependency Manage Spacelift Run external dependencies
stack Manage a Spacelift stack
whoami Print out logged-in users information
version Print out CLI version
workerpool Manages workerpools and their workers
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--help, -h show help
--version, -v print the version
To get help about a particular command or subcommand, use the -h
flag:
> spacectl profile -h
NAME:
spacectl profile - Manage Spacelift profiles
USAGE:
spacectl profile command [command options] [arguments...]
COMMANDS:
current Outputs your currently selected profile
export-token Prints the current token to stdout. In order not to leak, we suggest piping it to your OS pastebin
list List all your Spacelift account profiles
login Create a profile for a Spacelift account
logout Remove Spacelift credentials for an existing profile
select Select one of your Spacelift account profiles
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
OPTIONS:
--help, -h show help (default: false)
The following screencast shows an example of using spacectl to run a one-off task in Spacelift:
spacectl
is designed to work in two different contexts - a non-interactive scripting mode (eg. external CI/CD pipeline) and a local interactive mode, where you type commands into your shell. Because of this, it supports two types of credentials - environment variables and user profiles.
We refer to each method of providing credentials as "credential providers" (like AWS), and details of each method are documented in the following sections.
The CLI supports the following authentication methods via the environment:
spacectl
looks for authentication configurations in the order specified above, and will stop as soon as it finds a valid configuration. For example, if a Spacelift API token is specified, GitHub tokens and Spacelift API keys will be ignored, even if their environment variables are specified.
Spacelift API tokens can be specified using the SPACELIFT_API_TOKEN
environment variable. When this variable is found, the CLI ignores all the other authentication environment variables because the token contains all the information needed to authenticate.
NOTE: API tokens are generally short-lived and will need to be re-created often.
GitHub tokens are only available to accounts that use GitHub as their identity provider, but are very convenient for use in GitHub actions. To use a GitHub token, set the following environment variables:
-
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_ENDPOINT
- the URL to your Spacelift account, for examplehttps://mycorp.app.spacelift.io
. -
SPACELIFT_API_GITHUB_TOKEN
- a GitHub personal access token.
To use a Spacelift API key, set the following environment variables:
-
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_ENDPOINT
- the URL to your Spacelift account, for examplehttps://mycorp.app.spacelift.io
. -
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_ID
- the ID of your Spacelift API key. Available via the Spacelift application. -
SPACELIFT_API_KEY_SECRET
- the secret for your API key. Only available when the secret is created.
More information about API authentication can be found at https://docs.spacelift.io/integrations/api#authenticating-with-the-api.
In order to make working with multiple Spacelift accounts easy in interactive scenarios, Spacelift supports account management through the profile
family of commands:
❯ spacectl profile
NAME:
spacectl profile - Manage Spacelift profiles
USAGE:
spacectl profile command [command options] [arguments...]
COMMANDS:
current Outputs your currently selected profile
export-token Prints the current token to stdout. In order not to leak, we suggest piping it to your OS pastebin
list List all your Spacelift account profiles
login Create a profile for a Spacelift account
logout Remove Spacelift credentials for an existing profile
select Select one of your Spacelift account profiles
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
OPTIONS:
--help, -h show help (default: false)
Each of the subcommands requires an account alias, which is a short, user-friendly name for each set of credentials (account profiles). Profiles don't need to be unique - you can have multiple sets of credentials for a single account too.
Account profiles support three authentication methods:
- GitHub access tokens
- API keys
- Login with a browser (API token).
In order to authenticate to your first profile, type in the following (make sure to replace ${MY_ALIAS}
with the actual profile alias):
❯ spacectl profile login ${MY_ALIAS}
Enter Spacelift endpoint (eg. https://unicorn.app.spacelift.io/):
In the next step, you will be asked to choose which authentication method you are going to use. Note that if your account is using SAML-based SSO authentication, then API keys and login with a browser are your only options. After you're done entering credentials, the CLI will validate them against the server, and assuming that they're valid, will persist them in a credentials file in .spacelift/${MY_ALIAS}
. It will also create a symlink in ${HOME}/.spacelift/current
pointing to the current profile.
By default the login process is interactive, however, if that does not fit your workflow, the steps can be predefined using flags, for example:
❯ spacectl profile login --method browser --endpoint https://unicorn.app.spacelift.io local-test
You can switch between account profiles by using spacectl profile select ${MY_ALIAS}
. What this does behind the scenes is point ${HOME}/.spacelift/current
to the new location. You can also delete stored credetials for a given profile by using the spacectl profile logout ${MY_ALIAS}
command.
To release a new version of spacectl, tag the repo and then push that tag. For example:
git checkout main
git pull
git tag -a v0.24.2 -m"Releasing v0.24.2"
git push origin v0.24.2
After the tag is pushed, the release workflow will trigger and will automatically publish a new GitHub release.
Once the release workflow is done, go to the winget-pkgs repository and submit a pull request for the release version.