The Spearhead Cloud CLI tool allows you to manage your Spearhead Cloud infrastructure. While the Cloud Portal is being developed this tool is the preferred method for managing your infrastructure.
> The Spearhead Cloud Portal will provide all of the functionality available via the spearhead cli tool.
The *spearhead* CLI tool can currently handle the following tasks:
- manage compute instances (containers and virtual machines)
- create, delete, resize, snapshot
- view Spearhead Cloud packages
- create, delete and manage Spearhead Cloud images
- view networks
- create and delete firewall rules
- view Spearhead Cloud Datacenter's
- management of your own account
- manage your SSH key(s)
## Install Spearhead Cloud CLI tool
The *spearhead* CLI tool can be installed via npm (Node Package Manager). This requires that you have a recent version of npm installed from [http://www.npmjs.org](http://www.npmjs.org).
Once you have npm installed just run the following command to configure the Spearhead Cloud CLI tool. Please note that on windows you need to use the global flag (-g).
> npm install -g spearhead
On some platforms you may be required to use sudo (sudo npm install ...).
## Environment Variables
On Windows, setting up these variables is required. On other platforms these are not required however we recommend configuring these.
These variables will configure the *spearhead* env profile for you.
## Spearhead Profiles
The *spearhead* CLI tool allows for the use of profiles to manage multiple Spearhead Cloud accounts. A profile contains your user details (username), a Spearhead Cloud Datacenter API URL and SSH key(s).
