The plural cli automates all gitops operations for your deployments of plural applications. The core workflow should mostly be as simple as:

plural build
plural deploy

And if you want to teardown your infrastructure, you can simply run:

plural destroy

To add, update or reconfigure any applications deployed by plural. But it goes even deeper and solves things like:

• Secret management (via a similar mechanism as git-crypt)
• Application Health checking - plural watch APP
• Log tailing - plural logs list APP and plural logs tail APP LOGSTREAM
• Setting up secure proxies into databases, private web UIs - plural proxy list APP and plural proxy connect APP NAME

There are a number of means to install plural, the simplest is to use our homebrew tap if you're using mac:

brew install pluralsh/plural/plural

More detailed instructions for other platforms can be found at https://docs.plural.sh/getting-started#1.-install-plural-cli-and-dependencies

Plural does require a few other cli's to be installed, namely:

• helm
• terraform
• kubectl
• cloud provider cli for the infrastructure you're deploying to, like awscli, gcloud, etc
• kind if using kind to deploy a local cluster for testing

The core workflow is all git based, so you should create a git repository on github or wherever you're using SCM, clone it locally, then run:

plural init

You'll want to then install a bundle for whatever application you'd like, we'll use https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte as an example. You can search for the bundles using:

plural bundle list airbyte

And chose one (using aws as an example cloud provider target) like:

plural bundle install airbyte airbyte-aws

This will set the basic configuration parameters for all the infrastructure needed to install airbyte. Then just run:

plural build
plural deploy --commit "deploying my first plural app!"

To install it.

We highly recommend installing the plural console alongside your plural applications. That can be done easily with:

plural bundle install console console-aws
plural build
plural deploy --commit "deploying the plural console"

If you have any issues with your plural installations, or just want to show us some love, feel free to drop into our discord here