Exoscale CLI

Exoscale CLI is Exoscale's official shell interface for provisioning and operating cloud resources across compute, networking, storage, database, IAM, Kubernetes, and newer dedicated inference services. It is a general control plane CLI, not just a thin wrapper around one product area.

• Create, inspect, update, and delete Exoscale infrastructure such as instances, load balancers, block storage, private networks, DNS zones and records, object storage buckets, and IAM resources.
• Manage higher-level platform services including SKS Kubernetes clusters and node pools, DBaaS services and users, and dedicated inference models or deployments.
• Generate kubeconfig or ExecCredential data, fetch service logs, and script follow-up shell steps against resources in the right account and zone.

• Global JSON and text-template output modes make it practical to inspect state, pipe results, and feed follow-up commands in shell or CI workflows.
• Most day-two resource operations are direct Cobra subcommands with predictable flags, aliases, exit behavior, and --force paths that suit unattended automation once credentials exist.
• The rough edges are setup and some live workflows: initial exo config wants a TTY, many destructive commands prompt by default, and a few outputs like raw logs or kubeconfig are better for handoff than structured parsing.

• You need Exoscale API credentials and account or zone context before most commands are useful, and the guided config flow is explicitly interactive.
• Some commands emit domain-specific plaintext rather than structured objects, especially for logs, kubeconfig material, and human-oriented status views.