CLI overview

Available in Classic and VPC

We provide Command Line Interface (CLI) to help you effectively manage the services and solutions provided by NAVER Cloud Platform. After installing and configuring development tools on Linux and Windows, you can control various services of NAVER Cloud Platform from the command line and develop scripts to automate them. They can be broadly divided into basic CLI and compatible CLI.

Various CLIs provided by NAVER Cloud Platform

The following describes the three types of CLI provided by NAVER Cloud Platform.

• Basic CLI: NAVER Cloud Platform CLI (Ncloud CLI) that can manage some of the services of NAVER Cloud Platform. This refers to all CLIs other than compatible CLIs.
• Compatible CLI: NAVER Cloud Platform's CLI that is compatible with CLIs of other companies' services. Examples include the Object Storage CLI, which is compatible with AWS S3, and the Archive Storage CLI, which is compatible with OpenStack Swift.

CLI guide information

The CLI guide consists of the following topics to help you effectively use various CLIs of NAVER Cloud Platform. The content that users can view in each topic is as follows.

• CLI overview: CLI guide and common information, CLI classification-specific introduction, request and response data type information guide
  • CLI overview: CLI guide, introduction to basic CLIs and compatible CLIs, related resources to help you use them, FAQ guide
  • CLI settings and introduction: information on CLI initial settings, CLI structure, commands, etc.
    • Basic CLI: Ncloud CLI initial settings method and introduction
    • Compatible CLI: initial settings method and introduction for Object Storage and Archive Storage CLIs
  • Download CLI: Download CLI and check the latest information
• Compute: introduction to Compute's service-specific commands and instructions on how to use them
• Storage: introduction to Storage's service-specific commands and instructions on how to use them
• Networking: introduction to Networking's service-specific commands and instructions on how to use them
• Database: introduction to Database's service-specific commands and instructions on how to use them
• Big Data & Analytics: introduction to Big Data & Analytics's service-specific commands and instructions on how to use them
• Content Delivery: introduction to Content Delivery's service-specific commands and instructions on how to use them

CLI guide related resources

NAVER Cloud Platform provides a variety of related resources as well as guides to help users better understand CLI. The related resources of CLI are as follows.

• API guide: API guide for each service of NAVER Cloud Platform
• FAQ: frequently asked questions from CLI users
• Contact us: Send direct inquiries for unresolved questions that aren't answered by the CLI guide.

Check FAQs first.

Before reading the CLI guide, you can quickly resolve your questions by reading the answers to frequently asked questions. If you haven't found the answer to your question in the FAQ below, then search the API guide for what you would like to know.

Q. Where can I find the API authentication key required to use the CLI?
A. The API authentication key can be found in Manage account > Manage authentication key in the My Page menu that appears after logging in to the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.