# README
Overmind CLI
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What is Overmind?
Overmind is a tribal knowledge database that empowers your team to manage infrastructure confidently, even without extensive experience.
Signs your team needs Overmind
-
Blocked Experts & Slow Onboarding
- Expert team members spend too much time on approvals, reducing overall productivity.
- Newer staff face a steep learning curve, delaying their effectiveness.
-
Limited Dependency Visibility
- Tools like Terraform show intended changes but don't reveal underlying dependencies.
- Difficulty in assessing whether changes will disrupt existing applications.
-
Complex Outage Troubleshooting
- Pinpointing issues during outages is challenging due to hidden dependencies.
- Outages often result from intricate, unforeseen relationships rather than simple cause-and-effect.
Quick Start
Install the Overmind CLI using brew:
brew install overmindtech/overmind/overmind-cli
Launch the assistant and explore your newly configured AWS source:
overmind explore
Run a terraform plan:
overmind terraform plan
Install on other platforms
Prerequisites
- Terraform environment set up
- Access to all required credentials
- Ability to install and run the Overmind CLI
Installation
MacOS
To install on Mac with homebrew use:
brew install overmindtech/overmind/overmind-cli
Windows
Install using winget:
winget install Overmind.OvermindCLI
Or manually download the latest release, extract overmind.exe
, and add to your PATH
Ubuntu / Debian
Set up the repository automatically:
curl -1sLf \
'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/setup.deb.sh' \
| sudo -E bash
Or set it up manually
# NOTE: For Debian Stretch, Ubuntu 16.04 and later
keyring_location=/usr/share/keyrings/overmind-tools-archive-keyring.gpg
# NOTE: For Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 15.10 and earlier
keyring_location=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/overmind-tools.gpg
# Capture the codename
codename=$(lsb_release -cs)
apt-get install -y debian-keyring # debian only
apt-get install -y debian-archive-keyring # debian only
apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/gpg.BC5CDEFB4E37A1B3.key' | gpg --dearmor >> ${keyring_location}
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/config.deb.txt?distro=ubuntu&$codename=xenial&component=main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/overmind-tools.list
chmod 0644 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/overmind-tools.list
chmod 0644 /usr/share/keyrings/overmind-tools-archive-keyring.gpg
apt-get update
Then install the CLI:
apt-get install overmind-cli
RHEL
Set up the repository automatically:
curl -1sLf \
'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/setup.rpm.sh' \
| sudo -E bash
Or set it up manually
yum install yum-utils pygpgme
rpm --import 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/gpg.BC5CDEFB4E37A1B3.key'
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/config.rpm.txt?distro=amzn&codename=2023' > /tmp/overmind-tools.repo
yum-config-manager --add-repo '/tmp/overmind-tools.repo'
yum -q makecache -y --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='overmind-tools'
Then install the CLI:
sudo yum install overmind-cli
Alpine
Set up the repository automatically:
sudo apk add --no-cache bash
curl -1sLf \
'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/setup.alpine.sh' \
| sudo -E bash
Or set it up manually
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/rsa.7B6E65C2058FDB78.key' > /etc/apk/keys/[email protected]
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/overmind/tools/config.alpine.txt?distro=alpine&codename=v3.8' >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk update
Then install the CLI:
apk add overmind-cli
Arch
Packages for Arch are available on the releases page for manual download and installation.
Additionally a community maintained package can be found in the aur.
ASDF
Overmind can be instaled using asdf:
# Add the plugin
asdf plugin add overmind-cli https://github.com/overmindtech/asdf-overmind-cli.git
# Show all installable versions
asdf list-all overmind-cli
# Install specific version
asdf install overmind-cli latest
# Set a version globally (on your ~/.tool-versions file)
asdf global overmind-cli latest
# Now overmind-cli commands are available
overmind --version
Discover CLI Commands
-
overmind explore
Overmind Assistant is a chat assistant that has real-time access to all your AWS and K8’s infrastructure. It alleviates the mental exhaustion of manual troubleshooting, simplifies incident resolution by easily accessing historical data, and automates time-consuming tasks such as documentation and Terraform code generation. You can access the assistant by running
overmind explore
. -
overmind terrafrom plan / apply
Overmind can identify the blast radius and uncover potential risks with
overmind terrafrom plan
before they harm your infrastructure, allowing anyone to make changes with confidence. It can also track the impact of the changes you make withovermind teraform apply
, so that you can be sure that your changes haven't had any unexpected downstream impact.
How We Solve It?
![]() 🔍 Blast Radius: Overmind maps out all potential dependencies and interactions within your infra in realtime. Supports over 120 AWS resources and all Kubernetes. |
![]() 🚨 Risks: Discover specific risks that would be invisible otherwise. Risks are delivered directly to the pull request. Make deployment decisions within minutes not hours. |
Advanced Use
Passing Arguments
Overmind's overmind terraform plan
and overmind terraform apply
commands mostly just wrap the terraform
that you already have installed, adding all of Overmind's features on top. This means that no matter how you're using Terraform today, this will still work with Overmind. For example if you're using a more complex command like:
terraform plan -var-file=production.tfvars -parallelism=20 -auto-approve
Then you would add overmind
to the beginning, and your arguments after a double-dash e.g.
overmind terraform plan -- -var-file=production.tfvars -parallelism=20 -auto-approve
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- Contact us via email at [email protected]
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Additional Resources
Reporting Bugs
- Want to report a bug or request a feature? Open an issue
Development
Please look in the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
License
See the LICENSE file for licensing information.
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