actuated-cli

The actuated-cli requires an access token for GitHub and is designed to be used by a user with access to the actuated dashboard.

Most of the operations on the actuated dashboard are available as CLI commands.

Installation

Download the latest release from the releases page.

Then add the URL to either .bashrc or .zshrc:

export ACTUATED_URL=https://example.com

Or, run this command in a shell before executing any of the CLI commands.

Obtain a token from GitHub for your own account

You can perform this step using GitHub's Device Flow:

actuated-cli auth

Or you can obtain a Personal Access Token (PAT) manually from https://github.com/settings/tokens

In either case, saving the token to $HOME/.actuated/PAT will mean you can avoid having to pass in the --token flag to each command.

View queued jobs

actuated-cli jobs actuated-samples

View runners for organization

actuated-cli runners actuated-samples

View SSH sessions available:

actuated-cli ssh ls

Hosts are ordered by the connected time.

| NO  |   ACTOR   |                 HOSTNAME                 |  RX   |  TX   | CONNECTED |
|-----|-----------|------------------------------------------|-------|-------|-----------|
|   1 | alexellis | 6aafd53144e2f00ef5cd2c16681eeab4712561a6 | 13679 | 10371 | 6m4s      |
|   2 | alexellis | fv-az268-245                             | 23124 | 13828 | 12m2s     |

Connect to an SSH session

Connect to the first available session from your account:

actuated-cli ssh connect

Connected to the second session in the list:

actuated-cli ssh connect 2

Connect to a specific session by hostname:

actuated-cli ssh connect runner1

Connect to a specific session with a host prefix:

actuated-cli ssh connect 6aafd

Check the logs of VMs

View the serial console and systemd output of the VMs launched on a specific server.

Check for timeouts with GitHub's control-plane
View output from the GitHub runner binary
See boot-up messages
Check for errors if the GitHub Runner binary is out of date

actuated-cli logs \
    --owner actuated-samples \
    --age 15m \
    server1

The age is specified as a Go duration i.e. 60m or 24h.

You can also get the logs for a specific runner by using the --id flag.

actuated-cli logs \
    --owner actuated-samples \
    --id ea5c285282620927689d90af3cfa3be2d5e2d004 \
    server1

Check the logs of the actuated agent service

Show the logs of the actuated agent binary running on your server.

View VM launch times, etc.

actuated-cli agent-logs \
    --owner actuated-samples \
    --age 15m \
    server1

Schedule a repair to re-queue jobs

If a job has been retried for 30 minutes, without a runner to take it, it'll be taken off the queue.

This command will re-queue all jobs that are in a "queued" state.

Run with sparingly because it will launch one VM per job queued.

actuated-cli repair \
    actuated-samples

Rescue a remote server

Restart the agent by sending a kill -9 signal:

actuated-cli restart \
    --owner actuated-samples \
    server1

Any inflight VMs will be killed, see also: actuated-cli update --force

Reboot the machine, if in an unrecoverable position:

actuated-cli restart \
    --owner actuated-samples \
    --reboot \
    server1

Use with caution, since this may not perform a safe and clean shutdown.

JSON mode

Add --json to any command to get JSON output for scripting.

API rate limits apply, so do not run the CLI within a loop or watch command.

Staff mode

The --staff flag can be added to the runners, jobs and the repair commands by OpenFaaS Ltd staff to support actuated customers.

Help & support

Reach out to our team on Slack.

self-actuated/actuated-cli