Pulumi ESC CLI overview

Pulumi ESC is controlled primarily using the command line interface (CLI). It works in conjunction with the Pulumi Cloud to help your team manage environment complexity.

The standalone ESC CLI is only required if you’re working with Pulumi ESC without the Pulumi IaC CLI. If you already have the Pulumi IaC CLI installed, you can use pulumi env commands instead of esc env commands—there’s no need to install the ESC CLI separately.

Installation

The Pulumi ESC CLI is open source and free to use:

Install Pulumi ESC

Common Commands

The most common commands in the CLI that you’ll be using are as follows:

esc env - Manage environments
esc env diff - Show the difference between versions of an environment
esc env edit - Edit an environment definition
esc env get - Get a value within an environment
esc env init - Create an empty environment with the given name
esc env ls - List environments
esc env version rollback - Rollback environment definition to a specific version
esc env rm - Remove an environment or a value from an environment
esc env set - Set a value within an environment
esc env version - Manage the versions of an environment
esc env version rollback - Rollback environment definition to a specific version
esc env version tag - Manage tagged versions
esc login - Log in to the Pulumi Cloud
esc open - Open the environment with the given name
esc run - Open the environment with the given name and run a command
esc version - Print esc’s version number

To see a full list of Pulumi ESC CLI commands, you can run the following command:

esc --help

For more detailed help on a specific command, you can append --help to any command.

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