Installation#

The Ertia CLI is the tool used to interact with your Ertia environments.

Requirements#

The CLI requires that the following tools are installed and configured.

  • Git
  • Docker

Supported platforms#

We support installations on the following platforms/architecture.

PlatformArchitecture
Linuxamd64 (x86_64)
Linuxarm64
Mac OS (Darwin)arm64M1, M2, M3 etc
Mac OS (Darwin)amd64 (x86_64)

Installations on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) has not been tested.

Installing#

To install the CLI run the following command in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://ertia.io/install.sh | bash

The CLI installs itself into the platform determined directories.

Make sure the ~/.local/bin directory is added to your terminal shells $PATH.

Once installed, verify the installation.

ertia --version

Updating#

The CLI checks for updates once every 30 minutes on command invocations.

When an update is found you will be prompted to install the update. It’s recommended to run the latest version.

You can update manually by running:

ertia plugin update ertia

Disable update checks#

You can disable the automatic update checks by setting the following environment variable:

export ERTIA_PLUGIN_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK=true

Directories#

The CLI will install itself into the following directories.

PlatformBinary directoryData directory
Linux~/.local/bin~/.local/share/ertia
Mac OS~/.local/bin~/Library/Application Support/ertia