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Installed plug-ins and tools

Installed plug-ins and tools

In addition to the full IBM Cloud® CLI, IBM® Cloud Shell includes preinstalled CLI plug-ins, packages, tools, and runtimes so that you can instantly start working on the command line.

For more information about the IBM Cloud Shell CLI plug-ins, see Extending IBM Cloud CLI with plug-ins.

IBM Cloud CLI plug-ins

IBM Cloud Shell includes all IBM Cloud CLI plug-ins, including but not limited to:

The IBM Cloud CLI and plug-ins are regularly updated to the latest available versions. For the full list of installed plug-ins and their versions, run ibmcloud plugin list in Cloud Shell.

Tools

  • Apache Ant (ant)
  • Apache Maven (maven)
  • Bazaar version control system (bzr)
  • Calico CLI (calicoctl)
  • cURL (curl)
  • Docker (docker)
  • etcd CLI (etcdctl)
  • FIGlet text banner generator (figlet)
  • Git CLI (git)
  • GNU Automake (automake)
  • GNU Compiler Collection (gcc, gcov, gcov-tool)
  • GNU Wget (wget)
  • Gradle CLI (gradle)
  • Helm CLI (helm)
  • Istio CLI (istioctl)
  • jq JSON processor (jq)
  • Knative CLI (kn)
  • Kubernetes CLI (kubectl)
  • Kubetail Kubernetes log aggregator (kubetail)
  • Mercurial source content management tool (hg)
  • Nano text editor (nano) and colors for nano
  • nodemon Node.js development monitoring utility (nodemon)
  • NPM Package Manager (npm)
  • Node Version Manager (nvm)
  • Operator SDK (operator-sdk)
  • PostgeSQL client (psql)
  • Red Hat® OpenShift CLI (oc)
  • Red Hat OpenShift Do CLI (odo)
  • Redis CLI (redis-cli)
  • SoftLayer CLI (slcli)
  • Terraform CLI (terraform) and IBM Cloud Provider plug-in for Terraform (ibmcloud terraform)
  • tmux terminal multiplexer (tmux)
  • UnZip extraction utility (unzip)
  • Vim text editor (vim)
  • XZ Utils (xz, xzcat, xzcmp, xzdiff, xzegrep, xzfgrep, xzgrep, xzless, xzmore)
  • Yarn package manager (yarn)
  • yq YAML processor (yq)
  • Zip archive utility (zip)
  • Simple Python Version Management (pyenv)

Packages and libraries

  • apt-transport-https
  • bash-completion
  • build-essential
  • ca-certificates
  • cron
  • dnsutils
  • gettext
  • inetutils-ping
  • libevent-dev
  • libncurses5-dev
  • locales
  • musl
  • net-tools
  • pkg-config
  • powerline-shell
  • Python requests
  • python-virtualenv
  • python-setuptools
  • python-pip
  • python3-pip
  • ruby-dev
  • silversearcher-ag
  • software-properties-common
  • zlib1g-dev