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This post was originally published on the Platform.sh blog and reflects information from the time of publication.
The command line has always been the most flexible and powerful way for us humans to communicate with their computers. For web developers, command-line tools have proliferated over recent years: many developers spend most of their time typing commands in a shell. Our command-line interface, the Platform.sh CLI, is based on the Symfony Console component. It’s convenient to use alongside other command-line tools: you need to use git to manage the project’s code, so platform is a natural way to manage the project itself. The CLI also helps you build projects for local development, particularly if you use Drupal. To install or upgrade, you can use Composer: 
composer global require 'platformsh/cli:@stable'
Recent new features (over the past two months) include:
  • Activity commands, for viewing recent activities on an environment - activity:list ( activities ) and activity:log .
  • An environment:metadata command for reading additional environment properties - this also lets you update the environment’s title, and its ‘parent’ and ‘enable_smtp’ properties.
  • The ssh-key:add command can now generate an SSH public key for you, before uploading it to your Platform.sh account.
  • Integration commands, for adding GitHub, HipChat, and other integrations - integration:list ( integrations ), integration:add , integration:update , and integration:delete .
    A GitHub integration allows you to create Platform.sh environments for every pull request (and/or every branch) in your GitHub repository:
platform integration:add --type github --repository example/example --token ExampleToken
A HipChat integration will report Platform.sh activity to your private HipChat room. 
platform integration:add --type hipchat --room 123456 --token ExampleToken
There is also a generic ‘webhook’ integration: Platform.sh will post information about every activity to your own webhook URL. 
platform integration:add --type webhook --url https://example.com/webhook
  • A new environment:restore command for restoring a backup. You can also now list recent backups using: platform environment:backup --list
  • Commands which trigger remote operations on Platform.sh now wait for the operation to complete: branch, activate, deactivate, backup, restore, merge, and synchronize. Or if you are impatient, you can pass a --no-wait option. You can use platform activity:list to check the state of previous operations.
Other improvements:
  • Improved usability (validation and feedback) for the httpaccess command.
  • Install Drush automatically when required (provided that Composer is available globally).
  • Check for ‘vanilla-mode’ Drupal without requiring COPYRIGHT.txt .
  • Changed Drupal ‘profile-mode’ builds so that Drush Make no longer builds inside the repository.
  • Many other small bug fixes.
For more information about the CLI (and to file issues) see the public GitHub repository. We accept pull requests!
Last modified on April 30, 2026