Spotctl

A unified command-line interface to manage your Spot resources.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Getting Started
• Documentation
• Examples
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Getting Help
• Community
• Contributing
• License

Installation

For macOS users, the easiest way to install spotctl is to use Homebrew:

$ brew install spotinst/tap/spotctl

Otherwise, please download the latest release from the Releases page.

Getting Started

Before using spotctl, you need to configure your Spot credentials. You can do this in several ways:

• Environment variables
• Credentials file

The quickest way to get started is to run the spotctl configure command:

$ spotctl configure

To use environment variables, do the following:

$ export SPOTINST_TOKEN=<spotinst_token>
$ export SPOTINST_ACCOUNT=<spotinst_account>

To use the credentials file, run the spotctl configure command or manually create an INI formatted file like this:

[default]
token   = <spotinst_token>
account = <spotinst_account>

and place it in:

• Unix/Linux/macOS: ~/.spotinst/credentials
• Windows: %UserProfile%\.spotinst/credentials

If you wish to place the credentials file in a different location than the one specified above, you need to tell spotctl where to find it. Do this by setting the following environment variable:

$ export SPOTINST_CREDENTIALS_FILE=/path/to/credentials_file

Documentation

If you're new to Spot and want to get started, please checkout our Getting Started guide, available on the Spot Documentation website.

Examples

Create a new quickstart Kubernetes cluster on AWS using kops with Ocean node instance groups:

$ spotctl ocean quickstart cluster kubernetes aws

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I set up credentials for spotctl
  See Getting Started.

Getting Help

We use GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests. Please use these community resources for getting help:

• Ask a question on Stack Overflow and tag it with spotctl.
• Join our Spot community on Slack.
• Open an issue.

Community

• Slack
• Twitter

Contributing

Please see the contribution guidelines.

License

Code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See NOTICE.md for complete details, including software and third-party licenses and permissions.