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brew install backplane-cli

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overview

Package summary

CLI for interacting with the OpenShift Backplane API

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

ocm-backplane

history

Project history and usage

backplane-cli is an OpenShift operations CLI for interacting with the OpenShift Backplane API. It builds the ocm-backplane binary, which acts as an ocm plugin invoked as ocm backplane.

Project history

The OpenShift GitHub repository was created in January 2023, and its releases list v0.1.0 in March 2023. The README describes the project as a CLI tool for backplane-api, installable from an OpenShift SRE Homebrew tap, downloadable from GitHub releases, or buildable from source.

The command set grew around managed OpenShift support workflows: cluster login/logout, console access, cloud credentials, SSM sessions, privilege elevation, script and managed-job execution, health checks, and status reporting.

Adoption history

Adoption is intentionally narrow compared with general cloud CLIs. The project lives under the OpenShift organization, integrates with the OpenShift Cluster Manager CLI plugin model, and is packaged through Homebrew for operators who need repeatable local installation.

How it is used

Operators use ocm backplane to log into a target cluster, source or export kubeconfig data, open the OpenShift console, retrieve temporary cloud-provider credentials, run managed jobs, and store configuration in ~/.config/backplane/config.json. The README warns that this config can contain PagerDuty API keys or JIRA tokens and should have restrictive permissions.

Why package nerds care

backplane-cli is notable as vendor SRE tooling that still follows normal package-manager distribution. It shows the ocm plugin naming pattern in practice: the installed binary is ocm-backplane, but users get a subcommand-like ocm backplane UX.

Timeline

2023: GitHub repository created under openshift/backplane-cli.
2023: v0.1.0 published in GitHub releases.
2025: v0.6.2 published as the release train continued.
2026: v0.10.2 published in GitHub releases.

Related projects

The README links backplane-api as the service API, openshift-online/ocm-cli as the plugin host, and uses oc/kubeconfig conventions for cluster access. PagerDuty and JIRA appear in documented credential/configuration flows.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for backplane-cli. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.config/backplane/config.json

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.config/backplane/config.json

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`ocm-backplane`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.11.0

manager updated2026-07-26

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:backplane-cli
Version	0.11.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/openshift/backplane-cli
Repository	https://github.com/openshift/backplane-cli
Last updated	2026-07-26T10:56:31+02:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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combined/backplane-cli.yml

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