ported-pw/portainer-cli

Command line interface to easy communicate to your Portainer application.

Portainer CLI

Portainer CLI is a Python software to use in command line. Use this command line interface to easy communicate with your Portainer application, like in a continuous integration and continuous deployment environments.

Install

pip install [--user] portainer-cli

Usage

Global flags

Flag	Description
-l or --local	Save and load configuration file (.portainer-cli.json) in current directory.
-d or --debug	Enable DEBUG messages in stdout

configure command

Configure Portainer HTTP service base url.

portainer-cli configure base_url

E.g:

portainer-cli configure http://10.0.0.1:9000/

You can also pass additional headers, e.g.:

portainer-cli configure https://portainer.mydomain.com/ -extra-headers=CF-Access-Client-Id=**.access,CF-Access-Client-Secret=***

login command

Identify yourself and take action.

portainer-cli login username password

E.g:

portainer-cli login douglas d1234

create_stack command

Create a stack.

portainer-cli create_stack -n stack_name -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file

E.g:

portainer-cli create_stack -n stack_name -e 1 stack-test -sf docker-compose.yml

Flags

Flag	Description
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-sf or -stack-file	Stack file
-ef or -env-file	Pass env file path, usually .env

update_stack command

Update a stack.

portainer-cli update_stack -s stack_id -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file

E.g:

portainer-cli update_stack -s 18 -e 1 -sf docker-compose.yml

Environment variables arguments

portainer-cli update_stack id -s stack_id -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file --env.var=value

Where var is the environment variable name and value is the environment variable value.

Flags

Flag	Description
-s or -stack-id	Stack id
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-sf or -stack-file	Stack file
-ef or -env-file	Pass env file path, usually .env
-p or --prune	Prune services
-c or --clear-env	Clear all environment variables

create_or_update_stack command

Create or update a stack based on it's name.

portainer-cli create_or_update_stack -n stack_name -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file

E.g:

portainer-cli update_stack -s 18 -e 1 -sf docker-compose.yml

Environment variables arguments

portainer-cli create_or_update_stack -n stack_name -e endpoint_id -sf stack_file --env.var=value

Where var is the environment variable name and value is the environment variable value.

Flags

Flag	Description
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-sf or -stack-file	Stack file
-ef or -env-file	Pass env file path, usually .env
-p or --prune	Prune services
-c or --clear-env	Clear all environment variables

update_stack_acl command

Update acl associated to a stack

portainer-cli update_stack_acl -s stack_id -e endpoint_id -o ownership_type

Remark : you can either update by stack_id or stack_name (-s or -n)

E.g:

portainer-cli update_stack_acl -n stack-test -e 1 -o restricted -u user1,user2 -t team1,team2

Flags

Flag	Description
-s or -stack-id	Stack id
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)
-o or -ownership-type	Ownership type (admin
-u or -users	Comma separated list of user names (when restricted)
-t or -teams	Comma separated list of team names (when restricted)
-c or -clear	Clear users and teams before updateing them (when restricted)

get_stack_id command

Get stack id by it's name. return -1 if the stack does not exist

portainer-cli get_stack_id -n stack_name -e endpoint_id

E.g:

portainer-cli get_stack_id -n stack-test -e 1

Flags

Flag	Description
-n or -stack-name	Stack name
-e or -endpoint-id	Endpoint id (required)

update_registry command

Update registry.

portainer-cli update_registry id [-name] [-url]

E.g:

portainer-cli update_registry 1 -name="Some registry" -url="some.url.com/r"

Authentication

You can use authentication passing -a or --authentication flag, but you must pass the -username and -password options.

portainer-cli update_registry 1 -a -username=douglas -password=d1234

request command

Make a request.

portainer-cli request path [method=GET] [data]

E.g:

portainer-cli request status

Flags

Flag	Description
-p or --printc	Print response content in stdout.

Development

This project uses Poetry to manage dependencies and packaging. Simply run poetry install to get a development environment.