dt-cli — Dynatrace developer's toolbox

Dynatrace CLI is a command line utility that assists in signing, building and uploading extensions for Dynatrace Extension Framework 2.0.

Features

• Work with Extensions 2.0
  • Build and sign extensions from source
  • Generate CA certificates for development
  • Generate development certificates for extension signing
  • Validate and upload extension to Dynatrace
• (planned) Perform various API requests from command line

FAQ

What's the difference between monaco and dt-cli?

• Monaco is a monitoring configuration as code solution that allows you to configure Dynatrace environment using GitOps approach. It follows a declarative approach: define what you need and the tool will ensure the correct configuration.
• dt command line, on the other hand, is a tool for performing imperative step-by-step configuration. You explicitly invoke commands to modify the state.

Installation

pip install dt-cli

Usage

1. (optional) If you don't already have a developer certificate

   1. Generate CA key and certificate

      $ dt ext genca
      CA private key passphrase []: 
      Repeat for confirmation: 
      Generating CA...
      
      Wrote CA private key: ./ca.key
      Wrote CA certificate: ./ca.pem
      

   2. Generate developer key and certificate from the CA

      $ dt ext generate-developer-pem --ca-crt ca.pem --ca-key ca.key -o dev.pem
      Name: Ext
      Loading CA private key ca.key
      Loading CA certificate ca.pem
      Generating developer certificate...
      Wrote developer certificate: dev.pem
      Wrote developer private key: dev.pem
      

2. Upload your CA certificate to the Dynatrace credential vault

   See: Add your root certificate to the Dynatrace credential vault

3. Upload your CA certificate to OneAgent or ActiveGate hosts that will run your extension

   See: Uplaod your root certificate to OneAgent or ActiveGate

4. Build and sign the extension

   $ dt ext assemble
   Building extension.zip from extension/
   Adding file: extension/dashboards/overview_dashboard.json as dashboards/overview_dashboard.json
   Adding file: extension/extension.yaml as extension.yaml
   Adding file: extension/activationSchema.json as activationSchema.json
   
   $ dt ext sign --key dev.pem
   Successfully signed the extension bundle at bundle.zip
   

5. (optional) Validate the assembled and signed bundle with your Dynatrace tenant

   $ dt ext validate bundle.zip --tenant-url https://<tenantid>.live.dynatrace.com --api-token <token>
   Extension validation successful!
   

6. Upload the extension to your Dynatrace tenant

   $ dt ext upload bundle.zip --tenant-url https://<tenantid>.live.dynatrace.com --api-token <token>
   Extension upload successful!
   

Using dt-cli from your Python code

You may want to use some commands implemented by dt-cli directly in your Python code, e.g. to automatically sign your extension in a CI environment. Here's an example of building an extension programatically, it assumes dtcli package is already installed and available in your working environment.

from dtcli import building


building.build_extension(
    extension_dir_path = './extension',
    extension_zip_path = './extension.zip',
    extension_zip_sig_path = './extension.zip.sig',
    target_dir_path = './dist',
    certificate_file_path = './developer.crt',
    private_key_file_path = './developer.key',
    dev_passphrase=None,
    keep_intermediate_files=False,
)

Development

See our CONTRIBUTING guidelines and instructions.

Contributions

You are welcome to contribute using Pull Requests to the respective repository. Before contributing, please read our Code of Conduct.

License

dt-cli is an Open Source Project. Please see LICENSE for more information.