VCLI a universal Veeam CLI

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https://github.com/shapedthought/vcli

VCLI is a tool that I have been developing for a while which allows you to run API commands on almost all of the Veeam products.

The supported APIs are:

  • VBR
  • VB365
  • VB Azure
  • VB AWS
  • VB GCP
  • VONE

It is written in Go so it is provided as small, portal binary with all dependencies included. Python is a great language and one I use often, but dependency management can be a pain.

By why?

I wanted a way to get data from APIs with little setup or having to write a specific script to get the data.

I know that a lot of people are very familiar with various tools to get data from APIs so this tool may not be for you. It’s not meant to be a replacement for any current tools, just another tool for the kit bag.

Currently the tool only allows for GETS, but I am working on adding in POST and PUTS. I doubt that I will be adding DELETE as I don’t see any good coming from that.

Nushell

VCLI is pretty simple and only dumps out the data to either JSON or YAML. If you want to do more with the tool I suggest looking at https://www.nushell.sh/.

Nushell is a new approach to a shell which focuses on manipulating structured data which works brilliantly for data coming back from APIs.

I suggest that you try out both VCLI and Nushell for yourself and let me know if you like it and you can suggest any improvements.