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The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
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The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry.
View the latest help for The v8 CLI -OR- The v7 CLI, or run cf help -a to view the help for all commands available in your currently installed version.
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Sections: Getting Started | Download | Known Issues | Bugs/Feature Requests | Plugin Development | Contributing
Download and install the cf CLI from the Downloads Section for the v8 cf CLI.
Once installed, you can log in and push an app. The currently supported version of the cf CLI:
Note: v7 and v6 CLI versions are no longer maintained or released.
View our CLI v7 & v8 Versioning and Support Policy documentation.
If you have any questions, ask away on the #cli channel in our Slack community and the cf-dev mailing list, or open a GitHub issue.
Please read the contributors' guide
If you'd like to submit updated translations, please see the i18n README for instructions on how to submit an update.
Check out our community contributed CLI plugins to further enhance your CLI experience.
Note: For most up-to-date information in issues and workarounds please review the open and closed github issues
cf login) do not hide the password properly from stdout (issue #1835). Please use an alternative command (non-interactive authentication cf auth instead of cf login) to work around this. Or, use the Windows cmd command line.cf ssh may not display correctly if the TERM is not set. We've found that setting TERM to msys fixes some of these issues.cf ssh will hang when run from the MINGW32 or MINGW64 shell. A workaround is to use PowerShell instead.login/auth without --skip-ssl-validation.CF_TRACE=true, -v option or cf config --trace) doesn't work well with some CLI plugin commands. Trace to file works fine. On Linux, CF_TRACE=/dev/stdout works too. See this Diego-Enabler plugin issue for more information.cf push must be in UTF-8 encoding for CLI to interpret correctly. (issue #281)stdout, if that's an inconvenience you could set CF_RAISE_ERROR_ON_WARNINGS and in that case warnings will be printed through the stderr. See X-Cf-Warnings printed through stdout issueFirst, update to the latest cli and try the command again.
If the error remains or feature still missing, check the open issues and if not already raised please file a new issue with the requested details.
The CF CLI supports external code execution via the plugins API. For more information follow:
When importing the plugin code use import "code.cloudfoundry.org/cli/v9/plugin".
Older plugins that import github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/plugin will still work
as long they vendor the plugins directory.