Barracks CLI

The Command Line Interface tool to interact with the Barracks API

Requirements

Node.js >= 6.x

Installation

$ npm install -g barracks-cli

Usage

At any moment, if you want to know what you can do with the CLI or if you need any help about a specific command, you can use the help command:

$ barracks help

  Usage: barracks [options] [command]


  Commands:

    login          Authenticate to Barracks
    account        Get account information
    update [cmd]   Manage updates
    device [cmd]   Manage devices
    segment [cmd]  Manage segments
    token [cmd]    Manage tokens
    check-update   Check for an update the same way a device would
    help [cmd]     display help for [cmd]

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

You need to login to Barracks before using any other command:

$ barracks login
email: myaccount@mail.com
password:
Authentication successful

Barracks V2 support

Enable the V2 flag to access new features of Barracks. To do so, just enable the V2 flag :

$ export BARRACKS_ENABLE_V2=1

Now, you have access to all V2 features

$ barracks help

  Usage: barracks [options] [command]


  Commands:

    login          Authenticate to Barracks
    account        Get account information
    device [cmd]   Manage devices
    filter [cmd]   Manage filters
    package [cmd]  Manage packages
    token [cmd]    Manage tokens
    help [cmd]     display help for [cmd]

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

Features

Currently, the following features are available through the CLI:

• Login to your Barracks account
• Display account information
• Manage updates
  • List all updates
  • Create a new update
  • Edit an update draft
  • Publish an update
  • Archive an update
  • Schedule an update
• Manage devices
  • List all registered devices
  • Display detailed information of a device
  • List event history of a device
• Manage segments
  • List all segments
  • Create a new segment
  • Edit an existing segment
  • Change active segments
• Manage API tokens
  • List all API tokens
  • Create a new API token
  • Revoke an existing API token
• Simulate a device checking for update

With Barracks V2 enabled

• Login to your Barracks account
• Display account information
• Manage devices
  • List all registered devices
  • Display detailed information of a device
  • List event history of a device
• Manage filters
  • List all filters
  • Create a new filter
  • Display filter information
  • Remove an existing filter
• Manage packages
  • List all existing packages
  • Create a new package
  • Display detailed information of a package
  • Publish a deployment plan for a package
  • Display detailed information of a deployment plan
  • List all versions of a packages
  • Create a new version of a package
  • Display detailed information of a version
• Manage API tokens
  • List all API tokens
  • Create a new API token
  • Revoke an existing API token

Docs & Community

• Website and Documentation
• Github Organization for other official tools

Examples

Create a new update

$ barracks update create --title "My Update" --segment Other --versionId v0.0.14 --package /home/barracks/packages/0.0.14/update.zip

Get event history of a device

$ barracks device get "unit_qwerty1234"

Emulate a device checking for an update

barracks check-update --unitId EmulatedDeviceId --versionId "0.1"

barracks check-update --unitId EmulatedDeviceId --versionId "0.1" --customClientData '{ "key1":"value1", "key2":"value2" }'

barracks check-update --unitId EmulatedDeviceId --versionId "0.1" --customClientData '{ "key1":"value1", "key2":"value2" }' --download ~/Downloads/update.sh

With Barracks V2 enabled

Get event history of a device

$ barracks device get "unit_qwerty1234"

Create a filter

$ barracks filter create --name "exampleFilter" --query '{ "regex": { "unitId": ".*qwerty.*" } }'

Get all devices matching a filter

$ barracks device ls --filter "exampleFilter"

Create a package

$ barracks package create --reference io.barracks.app1 --name "Barracks Appli 1"

Create a version for a package

$ barracks package version create --versionId v1 --name "App 1 - Version 1" --packageReference io.barracks.app1 --file ~/versions/app1_v1_.sh

Publish a deployment plan for a package

$ barracks package plan publish --file ~/ressources/app1_plan.json

$ cat ~/ressources/app1_plan.json | barracks package plan publish

License

Apache License, Version 2.0