Plural CLI

The plural cli automates all gitops operations for your deployments of plural applications. The core workflow should mostly be as simple as:

plural build
plural deploy

And if you want to teardown your infrastructure, you can simply run:

plural destroy

To add, update or reconfigure any applications deployed by plural. But it goes even deeper and solves things like:

• Secret management (via a similar mechanism as git-crypt)
• Application Health checking - plural watch APP
• Log tailing - plural logs list APP and plural logs tail APP LOGSTREAM
• Setting up secure proxies into databases, private web UIs - plural proxy list APP and plural proxy connect APP NAME

Installation

There are a number of means to install plural, the simplest is to use our homebrew tap if you're using mac:

brew install pluralsh/plural/plural

More detailed instructions for other platforms can be found at https://docs.plural.sh/getting-started#1.-install-plural-cli-and-dependencies

Plural does require a few other cli's to be installed, namely:

• helm
• terraform
• kubectl
• cloud provider cli for the infrastructure you're deploying to, like awscli, gcloud, etc
• kind if using kind to deploy a local cluster for testing

Setup

The core workflow is all git based, so you should create a git repository on github or wherever you're using SCM, clone it locally, then run:

plural init

You'll want to then install a bundle for whatever application you'd like, we'll use https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte as an example. You can search for the bundles using:

plural bundle list airbyte

And chose one (using aws as an example cloud provider target) like:

plural bundle install airbyte airbyte-aws

This will set the basic configuration parameters for all the infrastructure needed to install airbyte. Then just run:

plural build
plural deploy --commit "deploying my first plural app!"

To install it.

Installing the Plural Console

We highly recommend installing the plural console alongside your plural applications. That can be done easily with:

plural bundle install console console-aws
plural build
plural deploy --commit "deploying the plural console"

Reaching Out

If you have any issues with your plural installations, or just want to show us some love, feel free to drop into our discord here