IBM Cloud CLI for Eclipse IDE plug-in (preview)
This preview release of IBM Cloud® CLI for Eclipse plug-in provides extensions for Eclipse integrated development environments (IDEs). This Eclipse IDE plug-in enables developers to manage their IBM Cloud account, resources, and applications within the Eclipse IDE.
This plug-in provides functions that are provided by the IBM Cloud CLI. The IBM Cloud CLI allows developers to work with IBM Cloud resources, apps, and containers.
This plug-in supports running ibmcloud CLI commands from within the Eclipse environment.
The IBM Cloud CLI Developer Tools eclipse-ibmcloud-cli plug-in for Eclipse is an open source project that is available on GitHub.
Before you begin
To use the Eclipse plug-in, install the following software:
If you install the IBM Cloud CLI in a custom directory, set the system property ibmcloud_eclipse_cli_path to the custom location of the IBM Cloud CLI installation. For example, -Dcom.ibmcloud.eclipse.cli.path=<path-to-ibmcloud-cli-installation>.
Specify this location in the eclipse.ini file under vmargs.
Installing the IBM Cloud CLI plug-in
The IBM Cloud CLI plug-in can be installed from the Eclipse marketplace. Follow the instructions in the marketplace to complete the installation of the plug-in.
Reporting issues
If you want to report bugs or enhancement requests, open a work item in the GitHub repo.