Installed plug-ins and tools

In addition to the full IBM Cloud® CLI, IBM® Cloud Shell includes preinstalled CLI plug-ins, packages, tools, and runtimes so that you can instantly start working on the command line.

For more information about the IBM Cloud Shell CLI plug-ins, see Extending IBM Cloud CLI with plug-ins.

IBM Cloud CLI plug-ins

IBM Cloud Shell includes all IBM Cloud CLI plug-ins, including but not limited to:

IBM Cloud Activity Tracker CLI plug-in (ibmcloud atracker)
IBM Analytics Engine CLI plug-in (ibmcloud ae)
IBM Cloud App Configuration CLI plug-in (ibmcloud ac)
IBM Cloud Catalogs management CLI plug-in (ibmcloud catalog)
IBM Context-based restrictions CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cbr)
IBM Cloud Databases CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cdb)
IBM Cloudant CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cloudant)
IBM Cloud Code Engine CLI plug-in (ibmcloud ce)
IBM Code Risk Analyzer CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cra)
IBM Cloud Container Registry CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cr)
IBM Cloud DevOps Insights CLI plug-in (ibmcloud doi)
IBM Direct Link CLI plug-in (ibmcloud dl)
IBM Cloud Event Notifications CLI plug-in (ibmcloud event-notifications)
IBM Cloud DNS Services CLI plug-in (ibmcloud dns)
IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS CLI plug-in (ibmcloud dbaas)
IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services CLI plug-in (ibmcloud tke)
IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services Certificate manager CLI plug-in (ibmcloud hpcs-cert-mgr)
IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers CLI plug-in (ibmcloud hpvs)
IBM Cloud Internet Services CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cis)
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service CLI plug-in (ibmcloud ks)
IBM Cloud Monitoring (ibmcloud monitoring) CLI plug-in (ibmcloud monitoring)
IBM Cloud Object Storage CLI plug-in (ibmcloud cos)
IBM Power Systems Virtual Server CLI plug-in (ibmcloud pi)
IBM Cloud Privileged Access Gateway CLI plug-in (ibmcloud gateway)
IBM Cloud Satellite CLI plug-in (ibmcloud sat)
IBM Cloud Schematics CLI plug-in (ibmcloud schematics)
IBM Cloud Secrets Manager CLI plug-in (ibmcloud secrets-manager)
IBM Cloud Transit Gateway CLI plug-in (ibmcloud tg)
IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud CLI plug-in (ibmcloud is)
IBM Event Streams CLI plug-in (ibmcloud es)
IBM Key Protect CLI plug-in (ibmcloud kp)
IBM Power® Virtual Server CLI plug-in (ibmcloud pi)
IBM Cloud VPC CLI plug-in (ibmcloud vpc-infrastructure)
IBM Watson Query CLI plug-in (ibmcloud watson-query)

The IBM Cloud CLI and plug-ins are regularly updated to the latest available versions. For the full list of installed plug-ins and their versions, run ibmcloud plugin list in Cloud Shell.

Tools

Apache Ant (ant)
Apache Maven (maven)
Bazaar version control system (bzr)
Calico CLI (calicoctl)
cURL (curl)
Docker (docker)
etcd CLI (etcdctl)
FIGlet text banner generator (figlet)
Git CLI (git)
GNU Automake (automake)
GNU Compiler Collection (gcc, gcov, gcov-tool)
GNU Wget (wget)
Gradle CLI (gradle)
Helm CLI (helm)
Istio CLI (istioctl)
jq JSON processor (jq)
Knative CLI (kn)
Kubernetes CLI (kubectl)
Kubetail Kubernetes log aggregator (kubetail)
Mercurial source content management tool (hg)
Nano text editor (nano) and colors for nano
nodemon Node.js development monitoring utility (nodemon)
NPM Package Manager (npm)
Node Version Manager (nvm)
Operator SDK (operator-sdk)
PostgeSQL client (psql)
Red Hat® OpenShift CLI (oc)
Red Hat OpenShift Do CLI (odo)
Redis CLI (redis-cli)
SoftLayer CLI (slcli)
Terraform CLI (terraform) and IBM Cloud Provider plug-in for Terraform (ibmcloud terraform)
tmux terminal multiplexer (tmux)
UnZip extraction utility (unzip)
Vim text editor (vim)
XZ Utils (xz, xzcat, xzcmp, xzdiff, xzegrep, xzfgrep, xzgrep, xzless, xzmore)
Yarn package manager (yarn)
yq YAML processor (yq)
Zip archive utility (zip)
Simple Python Version Management (pyenv)

Packages and libraries

apt-transport-https
bash-completion
build-essential
ca-certificates
cron
dnsutils
gettext
inetutils-ping
libevent-dev
libncurses5-dev
locales
musl
net-tools
pkg-config
powerline-shell
Python requests
python-virtualenv
python-setuptools
python-pip
python3-pip
ruby-dev
silversearcher-ag
software-properties-common
zlib1g-dev