Terminus is a command-line tool for performing Pantheon dashboard operations. Free, open-source & MIT-licensed, Terminus is a great daily-use tool for both developers and DevOps engineers. From updating your Drush aliases to automating site creation and deployment, Terminus has features for everyone. Join the maintainers, Jon Peck and Josh Koenig of Pantheon for an in-depth demonstration, training and discussion of how Terminus can supercharge your site management and development! For more information on Terminus, see https://www.getpantheon.com/blog/terminus-pantheon-cli

1. Terminus
The Pantheon
Command-Line
Interface
SANDcamp 2014.01.25 - https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus

2. What is Terminus?
● https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus
● CLI for Pantheon Dashboard operations
● Uses Drush
● Open-source

3. What does Terminus do?
● Makes API calls to Pantheon
● Does NOT interact with your Drupal site

4. What can I do with Terminus?
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Update drush aliases
Site operations
Workflow operations
Team operations

5. Why should I be using Terminus?
● Fast
○ No browser overhead
○ Makes direct API calls
● Scriptable
○ Common operations
○ CI workflows

6. Terminus dependencies
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cURL - http://curl.haxx.se/
Composer - https://getcomposer.org/
git - http://git-scm.com/
drush - http://www.drush.org/
PHP 5.3

7. Terminus installation
# Download
git clone https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus.git
$HOME/.drush/terminus
cd $HOME/.drush/terminus
# Get dependencies
composer update --no-dev
# Clear Drush cache
drush cc drush

8. Updating Terminus
# Update Terminus.
cd $HOME/.drush/terminus
git pull
# Update Terminus dependencies.
composer update --no-dev
# Clear Drush's cache.
drush cc drush

9. What commands are available?
drush help --filter=terminus

10. drush pauth
● Authenticate, required
● drush pauth email -password=”1234”

11. drush paliases
● Update Pantheon drush aliases, clear cache

12. drush psites
List sites associated with your account

13. drush psite-create
● Create a new site on
Pantheon
○ Label, machine name
○ Organization (if any)
○ Start state
● Polls
● Can be completely
scripted

14. drush psite-cmode
● Change connection mode
○ SFTP
○ Git
● Use in conjunction with psite-commit

15. drush psite-deploy
● Deploy code changes to an environment

16. backups
● psite-backups
○ List backups
● psite-backup
○ Create backup
● psite-get-backup
○ Get links to download backup

17. Multidev support
● psite-elist
○ List multidev environments
● psite-ecreate
○ Create multidev environment
○ Clone from target environment
● psite-edelete
○ Delete multidev environment

18. drush psite-import
● Import drush site archive from remote URL
● Great for trainings

19. Other useful commands
● Locking (basic auth)
○ psite-eli, psite-elo, psite-eul
● Team
○ psite-team, psite-team-add, psite-team-remove
● Redis clear
○ psite-erc
● SSH Tunnel
○ psite-tunnel, psite-tunnel-close, psite-tunnels

20. Ways to use Terminus
● Day-to-day operations
● Automating site migrations
● Continuous Integration

21. Thank you! Questions?
@getpantheon
irc.freenode.net #pantheon
getpantheon.com
https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus