ewccli 0.2.0

Python package to handle EWC resources.

ewccli

ewccli is the European Weather Cloud (EWC) Command Line Interface (CLI). This tool is developed to support EWC users on the use of the EWC services.

For more info about this SW, you may contact the European Weather Cloud <[e-mail]>.

Copyright and License

Copyright © EUMETSAT, ECMWF 2025.

The provided code and instructions are licensed under GPLv3+. They are intended to automate the setup of an environment that includes third-party software components. The usage and distribution terms of the resulting environment are subject to the individual licenses of those third-party libraries.

Users are responsible for reviewing and complying with the licenses of all third-party components included in the environment.

Contact EUMETSAT for details on the usage and distribution terms.

Authors

• Francesco Murdaca - Initial work - EUMETSAT

Prerequisites

• You will need a python environment to run the library implementation of this code. Python version 3.11 or higher.
• git installed on your operating system. (usually is available to most OS nowadays)

Openstack inputs

You can use the following link to obtain:

• Applications Credentials (ID and secret)

Installing

We recommend installing ewccli inside a virtual environment to avoid dependency conflicts with system packages.

Installing with PIP from PyPI

The EWC CLI Python package is available through PyPI:

pip install ewccli

Installing from source

1. Fork this repository and move into it

git clone THIS_REPO && cd ewccli

2. Create virtualenv with minimum python version > 3.10

python3 -m venv ewcclienv

3. Activate the virtual environment

source ./ewcclienv/bin/activate

4. Upgrade pip

pip install --upgrade pip

5. Install the package

pip install -e .

Getting started

Then run ewc to verify everything works:

If you get a WARNING like WARNING: The script ewc is installed in '~/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Add the following to your profile configuration file:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile

Login to prepare the environment

ewc login

IMPORTANT:

• EWC CLI uses the following order of importance:
  • env variables
  • cli config
  • any other config (e.g. Openstack cloud.yaml or Kubernetes kubeconfig file)

List items

The following command shows the current available items. Official items are listed here.

ewc hub list

Deploy an item

ewc hub deploy ITEM

where ITEM is taken from ewc hub list command under Item column.

Backends

This section described the backends used and which commands are backed by those backends.

Openstack

Used by infra and hub subcommands.

Ansible

Used by hub subcommand.

Terraform

Used by hub subcommand. (COMING SOON)

Kubernetes

Used by dns, s3, k8s subcommmands. (COMING SOON)

SW Bill of Materials (SBoM)

Dependencies

The following dependencies are not included in the package but they are required and will be downloaded at build or compilation time:

Dependency	Version	License	Home URL
requests	2.32.5	Apache Software License (Apache-2.0)	https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest
click	8.1.8	BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/pallets/click
rich	14.1.0	MIT License (MIT)	https://github.com/Textualize/rich
rich-click	1.8.9	MIT License (MIT License)	https://pypi.org/project/rich-click
prompt_toolkit	3.0.51	BSD-3-Clause License	https://python-prompt-toolkit.readthedocs.io/en/stable
pyyaml	6.0.2	MIT License (MIT)	https://pyyaml.org
cryptography	45.0.6	Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause	https://github.com/pyca/cryptography
python-openstackclient	8.2.0	Apache Software License (Apache-2.0)	https://docs.openstack.org/python-openstackclient/latest
ansible	11.10.0	GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+) (GPL-3.0-or-later)	https://www.redhat.com/en/ansible-collaborative
ansible-runner	2.4.1	Apache Software License (Apache Software License, Version 2.0)	https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/runner/en/latest
kubernetes	33.1.0	Apache Software License (Apache License Version 2.0)	https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python

Build/Edit/Test Dependencies

The following dependencies are only required for building/editing/testing the software:

Dependency	Version	License	Home URL
pytest	8.4.1	MIT License (MIT)	https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest
pytest-html	4.1.1	MIT License (MIT)	https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-html
pytest-mock	3.14.1	MIT License (MIT)	https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-mock
coverage	7.10.5	Apache Software License (Apache License Version 2.0)	https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy
pre-commit	4.3.0	MIT License (MIT)	https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit
sphinx	8.1.3	BSD-2-Clause License	https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master
sphinx-click	6.0.0	MIT License (MIT)	https://github.com/click-contrib/sphinx-click
sphinx-rtd-theme	3.0.2	MIT License (MIT)	https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable
pydeps	3.0.1	BSD-2-Clause License	https://github.com/thebjorn/pydeps
pydantic	2.11.7	MIT License (MIT)	https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic

Changelog

All notable changes (i.e. fixes, features and breaking changes) are documented in the CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Thanks for taking the time to join our community and start contributing!

Please make sure to:

• Familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct before contributing.

• See CONTRIBUTING.md for instructions on how to request or submit changes.

Development

1. Fork this repository and move into it

git clone https://repository.europeanweather.cloud/ewc-automation/ewccli.git && cd ewccli

2. Install the package for testing

pip install --user -e .[test]

3. Modify the local code and test changes.

4. When you are happy, push code to your fork and open a MR (Gitlab) or PR (Github)

Generate docs

sphinx-build -b html docs/source/ Documentation/

Check coverage

coverage run -m pytest

Run tests

pytest

Test in a container

After cloning the repository and cd into it.

1. Create the .dist/ repo

pip install -q build

python3 -m build

2. Create a container if you need to test anything before.

podman build -t test-ewccli -f ./Containerfile .

or same command with docker if you use it.