Neon CLI

The Neon CLI is a command-line interface that lets you manage Neon directly from the terminal. This documentation references all commands and options available in the Neon CLI.

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Install

brew install neonctl

npm i -g neonctl

bun install -g neonctl

curl -sL https://github.com/neondatabase/neonctl/releases/latest/download/neonctl-macos -o neonctl

neon <command> [options]

For more about installing, upgrading, and connecting, see Neon CLI — Install and connect.

# npx
npx neonctl <command>

# bunx
bunx neonctl <command>

Synopsis

neon --help
usage: neon <command> [options]                               [aliases: neonctl]

Commands:
  neon auth                        Authenticate                      [aliases: login]
  neon me                          Show current user
  neon orgs                        Manage organizations                [aliases: org]
  neon projects                    Manage projects                 [aliases: project]
  neon ip-allow                    Manage IP Allow
  neonctl vpc                      Manage VPC endpoints and project VPC restrictions
  neon branches                    Manage branches                   [aliases: branch]
  neon databases                   Manage databases            [aliases: database, db]
  neon roles                       Manage roles                        [aliases: role]
  neon operations                  Manage operations               [aliases: operation]
  neon connection-string [branch]  Get connection string                  [aliases: cs]
  neon set-context                 Set the current context
  neon completion                  generate completion script

Global options:
  -o, --output      Set output format
                  [string] [choices: "json", "yaml", "table"] [default: "table"]
  --config-dir      Path to config directory [string] [default: ""]
  --api-key         API key  [string] [default: ""]
  --analytics       Manage analytics. Example: --no-analytics, --analytics false
                                                       [boolean] [default: true]
  -v, --version     Show version number                                [boolean]
  -h, --help        Show help                                          [boolean]

Options:
--context-file      Context file [string] [default: (current-context-file)]

Commands

Global options

Global options are supported with any Neon CLI command.

• -o, --output

  Sets the output format. Supported options are json, yaml, and table. The default is table. Table output may be limited. The json and yaml output formats show all data.

  neon me --output json

• --config-dir

  Specifies the path to the neonctl configuration directory. To view the default configuration directory containing you credentials.json file, run neon --help. The credentials file is created when you authenticate using the neon auth command. This option is only necessary if you move your neonctl configuration file to a location other than the default.

  neon projects list --config-dir /home/<user>/.config/neonctl

• --api-key

  Specifies your Neon API key. You can authenticate using a Neon API key when running a Neon CLI command instead of using neon auth. For information about obtaining an Neon API key, see Create an API key.

  neon <command> --api-key <neon_api_key>

  To avoid including the --api-key option with each CLI command, you can export your API key to the NEON_API_KEY environment variable.

  export NEON_API_KEY=<neon_api_key>

  The authentication flow for the Neon CLI follows this order:

  • If the --api-key option is provided, it takes precedence and is used for authentication.
  • If the --api-key option is not provided, the NEON_API_KEY environment variable is used if it is set.
  • If both --api-key option and NEON_API_KEY environment variable are not provided or set, the CLI falls back to the credentials.json file created by the neon auth command.
  • If the credentials file is not found, the Neon CLI initiates the neon auth web authentication process.

• --color

  Colorize the output. This option is enabled by default, but you can disable it by specifying --no-color or --color false, which is useful when using Neon CLI commands in your automation pipelines.

• --analytics

  Analytics are enabled by default to gather information about the CLI commands and options that are used by our customers. This data collection assists in offering support, and allows for a better understanding of typical usage patterns so that we can improve user experience. Neon does not collect user-defined data, such as project IDs or command payloads. To opt-out of analytics data collection, specify --no-analytics or --analytics false.

• -v, --version

  Shows the Neon CLI version number.

  $ neon --version
  1.15.0

• -h, --help

  Shows the neon command-line help. You can view help for neon, a neon command, or a neon subcommand, as shown in the following examples:

  neon --help
  
  neon branches --help
  
  neon branches create --help

Options

• --context-file

  Sets a background context for your CLI sessions, letting you perform organization, project, or branch-specific actions without having to specify the relevant id in every command. For example, this command lists all branches using the branches list command. No need to specify the project since the context file provides it.

  neon branches list --context-file path/to/context_file_name

  To define a context file, see Neon CLI commands — set-context.

GitHub repository

The GitHub repository for the Neon CLI is found here.