confluent login

Description

Confluent Cloud:

Log in to Confluent Cloud using your email and password, or using single sign-on (SSO) credentials.

Email and password login can be accomplished non-interactively using the CONFLUENT_CLOUD_EMAIL and CONFLUENT_CLOUD_PASSWORD environment variables.

Email and password can also be stored locally for non-interactive re-authentication with the --save flag.

SSO login can be accomplished headlessly using the --no-browser flag, but non-interactive login is not natively supported. Authentication tokens last 8 hours and are automatically refreshed with CLI client usage. If the client is not used for more than 8 hours, you have to log in again.

Log in to a specific Confluent Cloud organization using the --organization flag, or by setting the environment variable CONFLUENT_CLOUD_ORGANIZATION_ID.

Confluent Platform:

Log in to Confluent Platform with your username and password, the --url flag to identify the location of your Metadata Service (MDS), and the --certificate-authority-path flag to identify your self-signed certificate chain.

Login can be accomplished non-interactively using the CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_USERNAME, CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_PASSWORD, CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_MDS_URL, and CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CERTIFICATE_AUTHORITY_PATH environment variables.

In a non-interactive login, CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_MDS_URL replaces the --url flag, and CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_CERTIFICATE_AUTHORITY_PATH replaces the --certificate-authority-path flag.

Even with the environment variables set, you can force an interactive login using the --prompt flag.

confluent login [flags]

Flags

--url string                          Metadata Service (MDS) URL, for on-premises deployments.
--certificate-authority-path string   Self-signed certificate chain in PEM format, for on-premises deployments.
--no-browser                          Do not open a browser window when authenticating using Single Sign-On (SSO).
--organization string                 The Confluent Cloud organization to log in to. If empty, log in to the default organization.
--prompt                              Bypass non-interactive login and prompt for login credentials.
--save                                Save username and encrypted password (non-SSO credentials) to the configuration file in your $HOME directory, and to macOS keychain if applicable. You will be logged back in when your token expires, after one hour for Confluent Cloud, or after six hours for Confluent Platform.

Global Flags

-h, --help            Show help for this command.
    --unsafe-trace    Equivalent to -vvvv, but also log HTTP requests and responses which might contain plaintext secrets.
-v, --verbose count   Increase verbosity (-v for warn, -vv for info, -vvv for debug, -vvvv for trace).

Examples

Log in to Confluent Cloud.

confluent login

Log in to a specific organization in Confluent Cloud.

confluent login --organization 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Log in to Confluent Platform with a MDS URL.

confluent login --url http://localhost:8090

Log in to Confluent Platform with a MDS URL and Certification Authority certificate.

confluent login --url https://localhost:8090 --certificate-authority-path certs/my-cert.crt

Log in to Confluent Platform with SSO even if CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_USERNAME and CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_PASSWORD are set.

CONFLUENT_PLATFORM_SSO=true confluent login --url https://localhost:8090 --certificate-authority-path certs/my-cert.crt

See Also

• Confluent CLI Command Reference - Confluent CLI.