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Manage Upstash resources in your terminal or CI. You can find the Github Repository here.

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Installation

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npm

You can install upstash’s cli directly from npm 
npm i -g @upstash/cli
It will be added as upstash to your system’s path.

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Compiled binaries:

upstash is also available from the releases page compiled for windows, linux and mac (both intel and m1).

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Usage

> upstash

  Usage:   upstash
  Version: development

  Description:

    Official cli for Upstash products

  Options:

    -h, --help               - Show this help.
    -V, --version            - Show the version number for this program.
    -c, --config   <string>  - Path to .upstash.json file

  Commands:

    auth   - Login and logout
    redis  - Manage redis database instances
    kafka  - Manage kafka clusters and topics
    team   - Manage your teams and their members

  Environment variables:

    UPSTASH_EMAIL    <string>  - The email you use on upstash
    UPSTASH_API_KEY  <string>  - The api key from upstash

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Authentication

When running upstash for the first time, you should log in using upstash auth login. Provide your email and an api key. See here for how to get a key. As an alternative to logging in, you can provide UPSTASH_EMAIL and UPSTASH_API_KEY as environment variables.

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Usage

Let’s create a new redis database: 
> upstash redis create --name=my-db --region=eu-west-1
  Database has been created

  database_id          a3e25299-132a-45b9-b026-c73f5a807859
  database_name        my-db
  database_type        Pay as You Go
  region               eu-west-1
  type                 paid
  port                 37090
  creation_time        1652687630
  state                active
  password             88ae6392a1084d1186a3da37fb5f5a30
  user_email           andreas@upstash.com
  endpoint             eu1-magnetic-lacewing-37090.upstash.io
  edge                 false
  multizone            false
  rest_token           AZDiASQgYTNlMjUyOTktMTMyYS00NWI5LWIwMjYtYzczZjVhODA3ODU5ODhhZTYzOTJhMTA4NGQxMTg2YTNkYTM3ZmI1ZjVhMzA=
  read_only_rest_token ApDiASQgYTNlMjUyOTktMTMyYS00NWI5LWIwMjYtYzczZjVhODA3ODU5O_InFjRVX1XHsaSjq1wSerFCugZ8t8O1aTfbF6Jhq1I=


  You can visit your database details page: https://console.upstash.com/redis/a3e25299-132a-45b9-b026-c73f5a807859

  Connect to your database with redis-cli: redis-cli -u redis://88ae6392a1084d1186a3da37fb5f5a30@eu1-magnetic-lacewing-37090.upstash.io:37090

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Output

Most commands support the --json flag to return the raw api response as json, which you can parse and automate your system. 
> upstash  redis create --name=test2113 --region=us-central1 --json | jq '.endpoint'

 "gusc1-clean-gelding-30208.upstash.io"