Onctl

onctl is a tool to manage virtual machines in multi-cloud.

Check 🌍 https://onctl.com for detailed documentation

What onctl brings

• 🌍 Simple intuitive CLI to run VMs in seconds.
• ⛅️ Supports multi cloud providers (aws, azure, gcp, hetzner, more coming soon...)
• 🚀 Sets your public key and Gives you SSH access with onctl ssh <vm-name>
• ✨ Cloud-init support. Set your own cloud-init file onctl up -n qwe --cloud-init <cloud.init.file>
• 🤖 Use ready to use templates to configure your vm. Check onctl-templates onctl up -n qwe -a k3s/k3s-server.sh
• 🗂️ Use your custom local or http accessible scripts to configure your vm. onctl ssh qwe -a <my_local_script.sh>

Quick Start

initialize project. this will create a .onctl directory. check configuration file and set as needed.

❯ onctl init
onctl environment initialized

export ONCTL_CLOUD to set Cloud Provider.

❯ export ONCTL_CLOUD=hetzner

Be sure that credentials for that specific cloud provider is already set. If you already use cloud provider CLI. They're already . ex. az, aws, hcloud

❯ echo $HCLOUD_TOKEN

Create VM.

❯ onctl up -n onctl-test
Using: hetzner
Creating SSHKey: onctl-42da32a9...
SSH Key already exists (onctl-42da32a9)
Starting server...
Server IP: 168.119.58.112
Vm started.

Ssh into VM.

❯ onctl ssh onctl-test
Using: hetzner
Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-89-generic x86_64)
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root@onctl-test:~# 

Installation

MacOS

brew install cdalar/tap/onctl

Linux

curl -sLS https://www.onctl.com/get.sh | bash
sudo install onctl /usr/local/bin/

Windows

• download windows binary from releases page
• unzip and copy onctl.exe to a location in PATH

Enjoy ✅

❯ onctl
onctl is a tool to manage cross platform resources in cloud

Usage:
  onctl [command]

Available Commands:
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  create      Create a VM
  destroy     Destroy VM(s)
  help        Help about any command
  init        init onctl environment
  ls          List VMs
  ssh         Spawn an SSH connection to a VM
  version     Print the version number of onctl

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for onctl

Use "onctl [command] --help" for more information about a command.

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