Getting started

The Coder CLI is automatically injected and authenticated inside of all Coder Environments.

The CLI is also useful for use on your local machine. Before you can use the CLI locally, you'll need to download, install, and authenticate with Coder.

Installation

The version numbering for CLI releases mirrors the version numbering for Coder releases. Download the CLI release whose version number matches your Coder version number.

Homebrew (Mac, Linux)

Download (Windows, Linux, Mac)

Download releases from GitHub:

1. Click a release and download the tar file for your operating system (ex: coder-cli-linux-amd64.tar.gz)
2. Extract the coder binary and copy it to a location you've added to your PATH environment variable

Authenticate

Once you've installed the CLI, authenticate the client with your Coder account.

If you're logged into Coder via your web browser, the process will open a new browser window that displays a session token. Copy the token, and paste it into the terminal prompt.

Static authentication

To support cases where the browser-based authentication flow isn't appropriate, such as in CI/CD pipelines, the Coder CLI can also be authenticated with the CODER_TOKEN and CODER_URL environment variables.

Generate a static authentication token with the following command: