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Other commands

The opentf-ctl tool also provides a set of commands to manage its configuration files. It can also display information on its version and that of the orchestrators it has access to.

config generate

This command generates a config file from user input. The generated configuration file is printed in the stdout stream (it is not saved to a file).

opentf-ctl config generate

The following options can be passed to this command:

  • --name: Nickname that will be used for context and orchestrator registration (default:default)
  • --orchestrator-server: Address of the opentf orchestrator
  • --orchestrator-agentchannel-port: Port of the agent channel service (integer) (defaut:24368)
  • --orchestrator-eventbus-port: Port of the eventbus service (integer) (defaut:38368)
  • --orchestrator-insightcollector-port: Port of the insightcollector service (integer) (default: 7796)
  • --orchestrator-killswitch-port: Port of the killswitch service (integer) (default:7776)
  • --orchestrator-localstore-port: Port of the localstore service (integer) (default:34537)
  • --orchestrator-observer-port: Port of the observer service (integer) (default:7775)
  • --orchestrator-qualitygate-port: Port of the quality gate service (integer) (default:12312)
  • --orchestrator-receptionist-port: Port of the receptionist service (integer) (default:7774)
  • --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false|true: Skip TLS verification (default:false)
  • --token: User’s token to sign communications with orchestrator

Please refer to “config set-orchestrator” for more configuration options for orchestrators.

config view

This command displays in the console the current configuration file.

opentf-ctl config view

The displayed configuration will be in order of priority the one pointed by

  • the --opentfconfig argument value
  • the environment variable OPENTF_CONFIG
  • the current user configuration located at ~/.opentf/config

config use-context

This command sets the current context.

opentf-ctl config use-context foo

The context must exist.

config set-context

This command creates or updates a context entry.

opentf-ctl config set-context my_context --user=admin --orchestrator=e2e
The following options can be passed to this command:

  • --orchestrator: Name of an existing orchestrator entry
  • --user: Name of an existing user
  • --namespace: The namespace to use when starting workflows with no explicit namespace defined

You can use --current as the context name, in which case the current context will be updated.

config delete-context

This command deletes an existing context.

opentf-ctl config delete-context my_context

config set-credentials

This command creates or updates a user entry.

opentf-ctl config set-credentials my_user --token=ey...

The following options can be passed to this command:

  • --token: The token to use when acting as this user (a string)
  • --step-depth: The default value to use for step depth (an integer, 1 by default)
  • --job-depth: The default value to use for job depth (an integer, 1 by default)
  • --max-command-length: The default value to use for max command length (an integer, 15 by default)

For step-depth, job-depth, and max-command-length a value of 0 disables the limit.

config delete-credentials

This command deletes an existing user.

opentf-ctl config delete-credentials my_user

If contexts are referring to this user, they remain unchanged.

config set-orchestrator

This command creates or updates an orchestrator entry.

opentf-ctl config set-orchestrator my_orchestrator --server=https://1.2.3.4

The following options can be passed to this command:

  • --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false|true: Skip TLS verification
  • --warmup-delay={n}: Delay in seconds to wait before sending requests (integer)
  • --polling-delay={n}: Delay in seconds to wait between polling requests (integer)
  • --max-retry={n}: Max number of retry before giving up reading information (integer)
  • --server=: Address of the opentf orchestrator (string, of the form {protocol}://{domain}[/{context}])
  • --{SERVICE}-force-base-url=false|true: Override link URLs
  • --{SERVICE}-port={n}: Port of the service (integer)
  • --{SERVICE}-prefix={prefix}: Prefix for the service (string)

where SERVICE is one of receptionist, observer, eventbus, killswitch, agentchannel, localstore, insightcollector, or qualitygate.

It only sets or changes the specified parameters.

If a SERVICE endpoint is hosted on another server or uses a customized route or port, it can be specified as such:

  orchestrator:
    server: http://localhost
    services:
      observer:
        prefix: foobar
        port: 1234
        force-base-url: true

That way, instead of performing a workflows’ lookup using http://localhost/workflows, opentf-ctl will use http://localhost:1234/foobar/workflows instead, while still using http://localhost/workflows to run workflows.

Information

If force-base-url is set to true for a service, opentf-ctl will ignore the links returned by the service and will always construct the endpoint’s base URL using the server, port, and prefix if defined. It is useful if the orchestrator you are using is behind an incorrectly-configured reverse proxy you have no control of.

config delete-orchestrator

This command deletes an existing orchestrator.

opentf-ctl config delete-orchestrator my_orchestrator

If contexts are referring to this orchestrator, they remain unchanged.

version

This command displays the tools version and lists the OpenTestFactory image components and their versions. It also shows the current orchestrator server.

opentf-ctl version
Tools Version: version.Info{Major:"0", Minor: "39", FullVersion: "0.39.0"}
Orchestrator:
    Orchestrator server: http://127.0.0.1
Components of otf-images image:
    allure: 2.13.8
    opentf-orchestrator: 0.53.0.dev1533+main.1708123a
    opentf-qualitygate: 0.8.0.dev121+main.43b2a747
    org.opentestfactory:java-plugins: 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT

The following options can be passed to this command:

  • --debug: Display the OpenTestFactory image BOM in raw output.