Command Line Interface (CLI)

The CLI is a small-footprint tool that you can use on its own or with the Console to complete Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tasks. The CLI provides the same core functionality as the Console, plus additional commands. Some of these, such as the ability to run scripts, extend Console functionality.

Tip

Cloud Shell: The CLI is pre-configured with your credentials and ready to use immediately from within Cloud Shell. For more information on using the CLI from within Cloud Shell, see Getting Started with Cloud Shell.

Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image: The CLI is pre-installed on the Oracle Linux Cloud Developer platform image. For more information, see Oracle Linux Cloud Developer.

Oracle Autonomous Linux: The CLI is pre-installed on Oracle Autonomous Linux versions 7 and 8. For more information, See Oracle Autonomous Linux Image.

This CLI and sample is dual-licensed under the Universal Permissive License 1.0 and the Apache License 2.0; third-party content is separately licensed as described in the code.

The CLI is built on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SDK for Python and runs on Mac, Windows, or Linux. The Python code makes calls to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure APIs to provide the functionality implemented for the various services. These are REST APIs that use HTTPS requests and responses. For more information, see About the API.

Installation: See Quickstart.

Reference: You can get immediate help on any CLI command. To get started, run oci --help from the command line. You can also view the Command Line Reference. This reference is derived from the APIs and help text in the Python source code.

Requirements

To install and use the CLI, you must have:

An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account.
A user created in that account, in a group with a policy that grants the desired permissions. This account user can be you, another person, or a system that calls the API. For an example of how to set up a new user, group, compartment, and policy, see Adding Users. For a list of other typical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure policies, see Common Policies.
A keypair used for signing API requests, with the public key uploaded to Oracle. Only the user calling the API should possess the private key. See Configuring the CLI.
Note

To use the CLI without a keypair, you can use token-based authentication. For more information, see Token-based Authentication for the CLI.
A supported version of Python on a supported operating system.
If you require FIPS-compliance, see Using FIPS-validated Libraries.

Supported Python Versions and Operating Systems

This table lists the versions of Python supported by the CLI for each operating system:


Operating System	Supported Python Versions for CLI
CentOS 7	3.6 to 3.9
CentOS 8	3.6 to 3.9
Oracle Autonomous Linux 7.9	3.6 to 3.9
Oracle Linux 7.8	3.6 to 3.9
Oracle Linux 7.9	3.6 to 3.9
Oracle Linux 8	3.6 to 3.11
Oracle Linux 9	3.7 to 3.11
Ubuntu 18.0.4	3.6 to 3.11
Ubuntu 20.0.4	3.6 to 3.11
Windows Desktop 10 & 11	3.6 to 3.11
Windows Server (2012/2016/2019)	3.6 to 3.11
Windows Server 2022	3.7 to 3.11

Newer versions of Python may not be immediately supported. The CLI might work on unlisted operating systems, but we do not test them for compatibility.

If you use the CLI installer and do not have Python on your machine, the installer offers to automatically install Python for you. If you already have Python installed on your machine, you can use the python --version command to find out which version is installed.

Services Supported

Access Governance
AI Anomaly Detection
AI Language
AI Speech
AI Vision
Analytics Cloud
Announcements
API Gateway
Application Dependency Management
Application Performance Monitoring
Audit
Autonomous Recovery
Autoscaling (Compute)
Bastion
Big Data Service
Blockchain Platform
Budgets
Build
OCI Cache
Certificates
Cloud Bridge
Cloud Guard
Cloud Migrations
Cluster Placement Groups
Compute Cloud@Customer
Compute Instance Agent (Oracle Cloud Agent)
Connector Hub
Kubernetes Engine
Container Instances
Content Management
Core Services (Networking, Compute, Block Volume)
Data Connectivity Management
Database Migration
Data Catalog
Data Flow
Data Labeling
Data Integration
Data Labeling
Data Safe
Data Science
Data Transfer
Database
Database Management
Database Tools
Delegate Access Control
Demand Signal
DevOps
Digital Assistant
Digital Media
Disaster Recovery
DNS
Document Understanding
Email Delivery
Enterprise Manager Warehouse
Events
Exadata Fleet Update
File Storage
Fleet Application Management
Functions
Fusion Apps as a Service
Generative AI
Generative AI Agent
Generative AI Inference
Generic Artifacts
Globally Distributed Database
Golden Gate
Governance Rules
Health Checks
IAM
Identity Domains
Integration Generation 2
Java Management
Java Management Service Downloads
Key Management (for the Vault service)
License Manager
Limits
Load Balancer
Logging
Logging Analytics
Logging Search
Logging Ingestion
Managed Access
Management Agent Cloud
Management Dashboard
Marketplace
Marketplace Private Offer
Monitoring
HeatWave
Network Firewall
Network Load Balancing
Network Monitoring
Networking Topology
NoSQL Database Cloud
Notifications
Object Storage
OCI Control Center
OCI Registry
OCI Secure Desktops
OneSubscription
Operations Insights
Operator Access Control
Optimizer
Organizations
OS Management
OS Management Hub
PostgreSQL
Process Automation
Publisher
Queue Service
Quotas
Resource Manager
Resource Scheduler
Search
Secret Management (for the Vault service)
Secret Retrieval (for the Vault service)
Secure Desktops
Service Catalog
Service Mesh
Source Code Management
Stack Monitoring
Streaming
Support Management
Threat Intelligence
Usage
Visual Builder
VMWare Solution
Web Application Acceleration and Security
Work Requests (Compute, Database)

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Contributions

Got a fix for a bug or a new feature you'd like to contribute? The SDK is open source and accepting pull requests on GitHub.

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Questions or Feedback

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