Intercube CLI

This command line interface allows you to connect, manage, and synchronize data from your Intercube cubes (servers).

Installing & updating

Install (or update) with the Go toolchain:

go install github.com/intercube/cli/cmd/intercube@latest

Once installed, you can update in place without remembering that command:

intercube self-update            # update to the latest version
intercube self-update v1.0.19    # pin or roll back to a specific version
intercube self-update --force    # reinstall even if already up to date

self-update shells out to go install, so it requires the Go toolchain on your PATH. It installs to your $GOBIN (or $GOPATH/bin); if a different copy of intercube appears earlier on your PATH, the command warns you so you can fix it.

Check your current version any time:

intercube version
intercube --version

Onboarding

Use the onboarding command to set up your CLI config interactively:

intercube onboarding

The wizard can help you:

• configure login defaults (username, password, scope, auth_method, instance_url)
• optionally configure file path mappings for intercube sync
• verify local prerequisites such as Boundary CLI and rsync

After onboarding, use:

intercube ssh

If required settings are missing (or the config file does not exist), the CLI will prompt only when needed and save values automatically:

• intercube ssh prompts for required login settings
• intercube sync prompts for missing file path mappings
• intercube map --interactive prompts to create mappings when none exist
• intercube map --create-origin-dir / intercube map -c creates missing origin directories before mapping

intercube login is kept as a deprecated alias and prints a warning to use intercube ssh.

Sync

Use sync from a source environment host:

intercube sync
intercube sync staging.example.com
intercube sync --files
intercube sync --database
intercube sync --dry-run

Behavior:

• always fetches current site inventory at runtime
• interactive target selection when no argument is passed
• argument auto-resolves against site ID/domain/server/user when possible
• stores file path mappings in config (sync.files.items)
• database connection details are requested interactively for each run (not persisted)
• database sync uses the selected target server by default, with an optional database SSH host override for clustered setups where files and MySQL live on separate servers

Single-server environments do not need extra sync configuration. For clustered targets, add the database SSH defaults to .intercube.yaml:

sync:
  files:
    items:
      - source: /var/www/site/
        target: /var/www/site/
  database:
    target_ssh:
      host: production-sql.example.com
      user: deploy
      port: 22

When sync.database.target_ssh.host is set, intercube sync --database pre-fills the database SSH prompt with that host. The user and port values are optional; when omitted, the selected target server's SSH user and port are used.

Context-aware defaults

The CLI resolves defaults using context detection and a fixed precedence.

Context detection order:

1. --context / INTERCUBE_CONTEXT (pipeline, server, repository, global)
2. CI=true -> pipeline mode
3. server config at /etc/intercube.yaml -> server mode
4. nearest repo containing .intercube.yaml -> repository mode
5. fallback -> global mode

Resolution precedence:

1. command flags
2. environment variables
3. active context config
4. user defaults

Supported default keys:

context:
  org_id: org_xxx
  site_id: "58"
  server_id: "42"

behavior:
  non_interactive: false

Config scopes:

• user: ~/.intercube.yaml
• repository: <repo>/.intercube.yaml
• server: ~/.intercube.yaml (same user-level config, used when --context server is selected)

Environment overrides:

• INTERCUBE_ORG_ID (preferred) and INTERCUBE_ORGANIZATION_ID (legacy)
• INTERCUBE_SITE_ID
• INTERCUBE_SERVER_ID
• INTERCUBE_NON_INTERACTIVE

In non-interactive mode, commands fail instead of prompting when required values are missing.