macOS
Homebrewverified ยท 100%
brew install vultr-cliprovider-native install command
brew / rank 10360
Install vultr-cli with Homebrew
Command-line tool for Vultr services. Version 3.10.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26.
install
Additional install commands
overview
Package summary
Command-line tool for Vultr services
Project links
Commands and aliases
- vultr
- vultr-cli
history
Project history and usage
Vultr CLI is Vultr's official command-line interface for the Vultr API, used to manage cloud infrastructure resources such as instances, networking, storage, DNS, Kubernetes, databases, object storage, and account data from a terminal.
Project history
The official GitHub repository was created in 2019 and publishes the Go module as github.com/vultr/vultr-cli/v3. The first public GitHub release listed by the repository API is v0.1.0 from June 2019, followed by v1.0.0 and v2.0.0 releases in November 2020 and v3.0.0 in February 2024.
The project is built around common Go CLI tooling, with cobra and viper listed in go.mod and a README command tree that exposes Vultr services as subcommands.
Adoption history
The official README documents several installation routes that matter to package users: GitHub release binaries, Go install, Arch Linux pacman, Homebrew, Fedora dnf, OpenBSD pkg_add, Docker images, and Chocolatey. The supplied package metadata also records packaging across Homebrew, dnf, nix, pacman, Scoop, and winget.
How it is used
The README and Vultr Docs show vultr-cli as a terminal client for listing and creating infrastructure resources. Authentication uses the VULTR_API_KEY environment variable, while an optional YAML config can be supplied with --config and may contain an api-key value; environment variables override config-file values.
Why package nerds care
For package maintainers, vultr-cli is a compact example of a provider-owned cloud CLI shipped through multiple native package ecosystems while tracking a fast-moving cloud API client dependency, govultr. Its GitHub releases, Go module path, Docker image, and distro package entries make it easy to compare upstream release cadence against downstream packaging lag.
Timeline
- 2019: GitHub repository created and v0.1.0 released.
- 2020: v1.0.0 and v2.0.0 released.
- 2024: v3.0.0 released and the module path uses github.com/vultr/vultr-cli/v3.
- 2025: Changelog records expanded cloud-resource coverage such as CDN, database, object storage, logs, and VPC updates.
- 2026: v3.10.0 released with instance, ISO, script-file, and govultr dependency updates.
Related projects
- govultr is the official Go client dependency used by vultr-cli. The README also points users to Vultr's API key settings and Docker image distribution for the CLI.
Sources
security posture
No protected-tool coverage found yet
No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for vultr-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.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
vultr | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
vultr-cli | 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 version3.10.0
manager updated2026-07-26
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:vultr-cli |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.10.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/vultr/vultr-cli |
| Repository | https://github.com/vultr/vultr-cli |
| Last updated | 2026-07-26T00:30:34+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation