Platform.sh CLI developments

The command line has always been the most flexible and powerful way for us humans to communicate with their computers. For web developers, command-line tools have proliferated over recent years: many developers spend most of their time typing commands in a shell.

Our command-line interface, the Platform.sh CLI, is based on the Symfony Console component. It’s convenient to use alongside other command-line tools: you need to use  git  to manage the project’s code, so  platform  is a natural way to manage the project itself. The CLI also helps you build projects for local development, particularly if you use Drupal.

To install or upgrade, you can use Composer:

composer global require 'platformsh/cli:@stable'

Recent new features (over the past two months) include:

• Activity commands, for viewing recent activities on an environment - activity:list  ( activities ) and  activity:log .

• An  environment:metadata  command for reading additional environment properties - this also lets you update the environment’s title, and its ‘parent’ and ‘enable_smtp’ properties.

• The  ssh-key:add  command can now generate an SSH public key for you, before uploading it to your Platform.sh account.

• Integration commands, for adding GitHub, HipChat, and other integrations -  integration:list  ( integrations ),  integration:add ,  integration:update , and  integration:delete .

  <p>A GitHub integration allows you to create Platform.sh environments for every pull request (and/or every branch) in your GitHub repository:</p>
  
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  platform integration:add --type github --repository example/example --token ExampleToken

  <p>A HipChat integration will report Platform.sh activity to your private HipChat room.</p>
  
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  platform integration:add --type hipchat --room 123456 --token ExampleToken

  <p>There is also a generic ‘webhook’ integration: Platform.sh will post information about every activity to your own webhook URL.</p>
  
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  platform integration:add --type webhook --url [https://example.com/webhook](https://example.com/webhook)

• A new  environment:restore  command for restoring a backup. You can also now list recent backups using:  platform environment:backup --list

• Commands which trigger remote operations on Platform.sh now wait for the operation to complete: branch, activate, deactivate, backup, restore, merge, and synchronize. Or if you are impatient, you can pass a  --no-wait  option. You can use  platform activity:list  to check the state of previous operations.

Other improvements:

• Improved usability (validation and feedback) for the  httpaccess  command.
• Install Drush automatically when required (provided that Composer is available globally).
• Check for ‘vanilla-mode’ Drupal without requiring  COPYRIGHT.txt .
• Changed Drupal ‘profile-mode’ builds so that Drush Make no longer builds inside the repository.
• Many other small bug fixes.

For more information about the CLI (and to file issues) see the public GitHub repository. We accept pull requests!