qcloud - The CLI for Qdrant Cloud

The official command-line interface for managing Qdrant Cloud

qcloud is the CLI for Qdrant Cloud. It lets you manage clusters, authentication and anything the API has to offer with a terminal experience.

Disclaimer

qcloud currently is under heavy development. The output and command shape can heavily change from version to version.

Installation

From GitHub Releases

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

Select the archive that matches your OS and CPU architecture, extract it, and place the qcloud binary somewhere in your PATH (e.g. ~/.local/bin or /usr/local/bin).

macOS: The binary is not signed. If macOS blocks it, run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine qcloud after extracting. In the future we will sign the binary so that this step is not needed.

If ~/.local/bin is not in your PATH, you can use /usr/local/bin instead (requires sudo).

From source

With Go installed, you can build and install directly from source:

go install github.com/qdrant/qcloud-cli/cmd/qcloud@latest

Verify

qcloud version

Quick Start

Before using qcloud, create a management API key and note your account ID from the Qdrant Cloud UI.

# 1. Create a context with your credentials
qcloud context set my-cloud \
  --api-key <YOUR_API_KEY> \
  --account-id <YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID>

# 2. List available cloud providers and regions
qcloud cloud-provider list
qcloud cloud-region list --cloud-provider aws

# 3. Create a cluster by specifying resources (waits until healthy)
#    Use --cpu, --ram, --disk to select
#    a matching package automatically.
qcloud cluster create \
  --cloud-provider aws \
  --cloud-region us-east-1 \
  --cpu 2000m \
  --ram 8GiB \
  --disk 50GiB \
  --name my-cluster \
  --wait

# 4. Describe your new cluster
qcloud cluster describe <CLUSTER_ID>

# 5. Create an API key for it
qcloud cluster key create <CLUSTER_ID> --name my-key

Configuration

qcloud can be configured in three ways, listed here from lowest to highest precedence:

Config file at ~/.config/qcloud/config.yaml (override with --config). Stores named contexts so you can switch between accounts and environments.

Named contexts allow you to save and switch between sets of credentials:

qcloud context set my-cloud --api-key <KEY> --account-id <ID>
qcloud context use my-cloud
qcloud context show

Environment variables override the active context:

Variable	Description
QDRANT_CLOUD_API_KEY	API key for authentication
QDRANT_CLOUD_ACCOUNT_ID	Account ID to operate against
QDRANT_CLOUD_ENDPOINT	API endpoint URL (defaults to Qdrant Cloud)
QDRANT_CLOUD_CONTEXT	Name of the context to use

Pass --json to any command for machine-readable output.

Getting Help

Found a bug or something not working as expected? Open an issue on GitHub and include:

• The qcloud version (qcloud version)
• The command you ran and the output you got
• Your OS and architecture

Acknowledgements

qcloud is inspired by and partially based on hetznercloud/cli. Thank you to the Hetzner Cloud team and contributors for building such a well-designed CLI that we could learn from.

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing follow the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md