SearchLog in to your Varnish Controller service and fetch the login token for subsequent use
First-time users of the client should run this command to connect to the apigw to establish an authenticated session, it will save the connection information to the configuration file. The default configuration will be saved to your home directory in “.vcli.yml”.
If username, password is not provided, the command will prompt for user input as needed.
Environment variables can be used for username, password, endpoint and organization:
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_ENDPOINT
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_USERNAME
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_PASSWORD
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_ORGANIZATION
If using self-signed TLS certificates on the API endpoints, the CA certificate can be specified to validate the TLS connection:
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_CA=<path to CA cert>
It is also possible to login without verifying the TLS cert:
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_INSECURE=true (or --insecure during login)
Password can be provided in clear text as the first line in a file, using environment variable (or –passwordfile flag):
VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_PASSWORDFILE=<password_file>
Examples:
vcli login https://localhost:8080 -u admin
vcli login https://localhost:8080 -u username -o organizationName
vcli login https://localhost:8080 --idp=true -o organizationName
vcli login https://localhost:8080 -u admin --insecure
vcli login https://localhost:8080 -u admin --ca=/path/to/ca.pem
vcli login https://localhost:8080 -u admin --passwordfile <password_file>
vcli login [endpoint] [flags]
--ca string TLS CA cert for verifying HTTPS connection
-h, --help help for login
--idp Login using 3rd party Identity Provider
--insecure Use insecure TLS
-l, --label string Label for your session (default "varnish-controller-cli")
-o, --organization string Set your organization
--passwordfile string Read password from given file
--proxy string Use this proxy URL towards the API GW.
--totp string TOTP code for MFA authentication
-u, --username string Set your username
-c, --config string configuration file for the CLI (default ~/.vcli.yml)
Could also be set via VARNISH_CONTROLLER_CLI_CONFIG=/path/to/config.yml
--csv Output the response table as CSV format.
-j, --json Output the response table as JSON format.