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How to use Spacectl

Problem​

You have many stacks that you need to manipulate in some way that the Spacelift Web UI doesn’t support or makes very cumbersome to do one by one. For example, maybe the stacks are pointing to the wrong HEAD commit.

You need to get some data out of Spacelift for reporting purposes.

Solution​

tip

Use spaceftl to automate certain mundane tasks in Spacelift and/or get an overview of Spacelift.

Long explanation for how to solve the problem.

See docs https://github.com/spaceone-dev/spacectl

Install​

⨠ apt install -y spacectl -qq

Setup a profile​

⨠ spacectl profile login acme
Enter Spacelift endpoint (eg. https://unicorn.app.spacelift.io/): https://acme.app.spacelift.io
Select credentials type: 1 for API key, 2 for GitHub access token: 1
Enter API key ID: 01FKN...
Enter API key secret:

Listing stacks​

spacectl stack list

Grab all the stack ids (use the JSON output to avoid bad chars)

spacectl stack list --output json | jq -r '.[].id' > stacks.txt

Setting stacks to a specific commit​

If the latest commit for each stack is desired, run something like this.

NOTE: remove the echo to remove the dry-run functionality

cat stacks.txt | while read stack; do
  echo $stack && echo spacectl stack set-current-commit --sha snip --id $stack;
done