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Installing CF CLI - Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface

Installing Cloud Foundry CLI

The Cloud Foundry (cf) command line interface (CLI) provides a set of commands for managing your apps. Cloud Foundry CLI is used for pushing and managing your apps.Cloud Foundry CLI is an amazing tool that helps us to play with our applications,services,orgs, spaces,routes and manage everything that is related to your Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployments.

Installation cf CLI is very easy and all that you need to do is click on the "Tools" link in the footer section of pivotal web service dashboard.

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Download the CLI based on your OS. For me its Windows 64 bit version so I will download that one.

After downloading, extract the Zip file then click on cf_installer file.

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Choose your installation options where you have option to select to whom you need this installation.

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Provide the path where CF CLI should be installed.

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Now CF CLI is ready to install. Click the "Install" button.

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After the successful installation, click the "Finish" button and close the installation window.

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Verify the Installation

To verify the installation, check the CF CLI version by opening command prompt and execute cf --version command.

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If you have your cf CLI installed, you're all set to start on your journey on Pivotal Cloud Foundry which is super cool

Whats Next

Let's discuss how to push our sample spring boot applications in PCF in the next tutorial.

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