使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 bosh-cli

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库

命令和别名

• bosh-cli

项目历史

BOSH began as Cloud Foundry infrastructure tooling, combining release packaging, stemcells, deployment manifests, VM lifecycle management, monitoring, recovery, and rolling updates. The BOSH site presents it as a project for managing both small and large-scale cloud software.

The Homebrew package is specifically the Go-based BOSH CLI v2 line. Its repository was created in 2016, and BOSH documentation distinguishes it from the older Ruby-based CLI v1, noting that v2 is stateless and uses hyphenated single commands.

采用历史

BOSH CLI adoption follows BOSH itself: Cloud Foundry operators use it to deploy directors, upload releases and stemcells, inspect deployments, run errands, and apply manifest changes. Cloud Foundry deployment documentation explicitly says Cloud Foundry leverages BOSH for deployment, lifecycle management, and distributed-systems monitoring.

The batch input records Homebrew and Nix packaging, reflecting its role as an operator workstation tool rather than an end-user application.

使用方式

Operators use the CLI to target BOSH environments, log in, interpolate variables, upload releases and stemcells, deploy manifests, inspect VMs, run tasks, and manage BOSH releases. The CLI docs are organized around those operational commands.

The CLI stores its local configuration under ~/.bosh/config, but v2 expects more state to be supplied explicitly through environments, aliases, flags, and manifest files compared with the old Ruby CLI workflow.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

BOSH CLI is significant because it is one of the classic Cloud Foundry operator tools: small as a package, but connected to a deep ecosystem of releases, stemcells, directors, CPIs, and cloud deployments.

The v1-to-v2 transition is package-history relevant because it moved the operator CLI from a Ruby gem era to a Go binary era, changing installation and packaging expectations.

时间线

• 2016-08: Official GitHub repository metadata shows cloudfoundry/bosh-cli created.
• 2018: GitHub release metadata shows v5.0.1 in the public release feed.
• 2026: Repository metadata and package-manager input show ongoing maintenance and Homebrew/Nix distribution.

Related projects

• cloudfoundry/bosh is the wider BOSH release and director project that the CLI operates.
• bosh-deployment provides manifests and operations files for deploying BOSH directors.
• Cloud Foundry cf-deployment is a major downstream deployment workflow that relies on BOSH.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
• https://bosh.io/
• https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2-diff/
• https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2-install/
• https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2/
• https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/deploying/index.html
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
• source_facts.package-manager