What is Alibaba Cloud CLI?

Getting Started

• Use Alibaba Cloud CLI to call API operations
• Use the Alibaba Cloud CLI extension for VS Code

Installation Guide

• Install Alibaba Cloud CLI on Linux
• Install Alibaba Cloud CLI on macOS
• Install Alibaba Cloud CLI on Windows
• Update Alibaba Cloud CLI
• Uninstall Alibaba Cloud CLI

Configure Alibaba Cloud CLI

• Configure credentials
• Manage multiple credentials
• Configure a proxy
• Use the automatic code completion feature

Use Alibaba Cloud CLI

• Command syntax
• Parameter formats
• Command-line options
• Generate and run CLI commands
• Use the help command
• Manage OSS resources
• Extract parameters and tabulate output
• Aggregate the results of paging operations
• Forcibly call an API operation
• Poll the return results
• Simulate a call
• Command logs
• Export metadata

Best Practices

• Use Alibaba Cloud CLI to migrate ECS instances across regions
• Run Alibaba Cloud CLI in a Docker container

Common Tools

• Vim editor
• Nano editor

Troubleshooting

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