Installation

This page provides details on how to install the Cofide Connect CLI. The CLI allows for the provisioning and configuration of workload identity resources with the Connect platform.

Command-line interface (CLI)

Cofide maintain the OSS project cofidectl, which provides a command-line interface to configure and deploy workload identity resources in Kubernetes clusters. There is a Connect-enabled version of cofidectl to securely connect to the Connect control plane.

Important

The Connect-enabled CLI makes the process for onboarding the Cofide Agent quick and easy, and is recommended for evaluation environments. For production deployments, direct use of the Cofide Agent Helm chart is also supported (eg with GitOps).

There is a quickstart script which will retrieve the latest stable binaries to use the CLI:

curl -sfL https://get.cofide.dev/cofidectl.sh --output get.sh

This will download the script locally, ready to be run with:

bash ./get.sh

Security

Please feel free to inspect the contents of this script before you run it for the first time. Its remit is only to pull binaries and make them available to your local filesystem.

The script is interactive and will prompt you to confirm the version to install. Once downloaded, you will be offered the option to move cofidectl to /usr/local/bin for system-wide access, or it will remain in the current directory. The resulting cofidectl binary is the Connect-enabled CLI, ready to use with a hosted Connect instance.

Terraform

Cofide resources can be created, updated, and deleted using the Cofide Connect Terraform provider. This is hosted on both the Terraform and OpenTofu registries, and can be initialised in the standard way with terraform init or tofu init. Further details on its use are available here.