Cloudbees CD RO Tutorials: ectool tools

The ectool is a command line interface that provides operational control over the CloudBees CD/RO system. It supports a large collection of commands, each of which translates to a message sent to the CloudBees CD/RO server. For example, ectool getProjects returns information about all projects defined on the server.

Download URL - https://downloads.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-cd/

$ wget https://downloads.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-cd/Release_2023.10/2023.10.0.169425/linux/CloudBeesFlowTools-2023.10.0.169425.tar.gz
$ ls
$ tar -zxvf CloudBeesFlowTools-2023.10.0.169425.tar.gz
$ cd CloudBeesFlowTools-2023.10.0.169425
$ pwd
$ export PATH=/home/ubuntu/CloudBeesFlowTools-2023.10.0.169425/bin:$PATH
$ ls bin/
$ ectool --help


# To test ectool:
ectool --help

# To test ectool:
bin/ectool --helpCode language: PHP (php)

Example Commands

ectool --server 34.201.174.35 login "admin" "changeme"
ectool --server localhost --securePort 443 login admin changeme
ectool getVersions
ectool --server 34.201.174.35 login "admin" "changeme"
ectool createProject --help
ectool createProject raj1
ectool deleteProject --help
ectool deleteProject raju
Code language: CSS (css)

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