VMware Cloud Services CLI

What's New

General Availability Release — This is the GA release of the new VMware Cloud Services CLI, a companion to VMware Cloud Services. This is a maintenance release to ensure ongoing compatibility with the generally available functionality in VMware Cloud Services. This release adds GDPR compliance for VMware Cloud Services instances in non-US regions.

The VMware Cloud Services CLI is a command-line utility that provides verb-based access with a unified interface

Highlights include:

• Create and Manage Cloud Assembly discovered and created objects such as network devices, storage devices, compute instances and more.
• Create, Manage and Deploy Cloud Assembly blueprints, including pre-stage plans and version management.
• Create and Manage Cloud Assembly constructs like cloud zones, image and flavor profiles.
• Create and Manage cross-service constructs like Project and Cloud Accounts.
• Manage Deployment objects
• Execute Code Stream pipelines
• Import and Export Code Stream Pipelines and Cloud Assembly Blueprints
• Manage CLI Telemetry settings

Usage

To run the VMware Cloud Services CLI, download the ZIP file and extract the vcs binary appropriate for your operating system

• To use Darwin/Linux binaries with auto completion feature, please make sure to have bash completion installed on your system.
• Windows completion:
• When exiting the shell, Ctrl-D is the only way to exit the auto completion prompt in Windows. Use these keys to exit as needed.
• For an optimal user experience, use PowerShell. If using any other terminal, change the background to a color such as Dark Blue, Gray, or Black, to make it more compatible with the auto-completion color.

Known Issues

• CLI does not accept spaces in string values
• When you are using the CLI in interactive mode on Windows, string flag values with spaces are not accepted.
• Workaround: In place of spaces, use a double-underscore notation.. For example, to describe a blueprint with name Single Machine use the following command with flag values as shown:
• vcs cloud-assembly blueprint describe --blueprint 'Single__Machine' OR 
• vcs cloud-assembly blueprint describe --blueprint 'Single__Machine' OR 
• vcs cloud-assembly blueprint describe --blueprint Single__Machine