Installation

This page provides details on how to obtain everything required to install the Cofide Connect CLI tools, allowing for the provisioning and configuration of workload identity resources with the Connect platform.

Command line

Cofide maintain the OSS project cofidectl, which provides a set of command line tools for administering workload identity in Kubernetes clusters. For use with Connect, there is a plugin (cofidectl-connect-plugin) which enables cofidectl to securely connect to the Connect control plane.

Important

The plugin-enabled CLI makes the process for onboarding the Cofide Agent quick and easy, and is recommended for evaluation environments. For production deployments, direct use of the Cofide Agent Helm chart is also supported (eg with GitOps).

There is a quickstart script which will retrieve the latest stable binaries to use the CLI and plugin toolchain:

curl -sfL https://get.cofide.dev/cofidectl.sh --output get.sh

This will download the script locally, ready to be run with:

bash ./get.sh

Security

Please feel free to inspect the contents of this script before you run it for the first time. It’s remit is only to pull binaries and make them available to your local filesystem.

This will make OSS cofidectl and the Connect plugin cofidectl-connect-plugin available in the current directory, ensuring the plugin is correctly installed, and ready to use with a hosted Connect instance.

Terraform

Cofide resources can be created, updated, and deleted using the Cofide Connect Terraform provider. This is hosted on both the Terraform and OpenTofu registries, and can be initialised in the standard way with terraform init or tofu init. Further details on its use are available here.