Cloud Account Management
In this guide, you'll learn how to register and authenticate DBOS Cloud accounts.
Registering a User
To register a new DBOS Cloud account, run the following command, choosing a username that is 3-30 characters long and contains only lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores:
npx dbos-cloud register -u <username>
This command provides a URL to a secure login portal you can use to create an account from your browser.
After registering, your credentials will be stored in .dbos/credentials.
Credentials automatically expire after 24 hours, at which point you must log in again.
Authenticating from the Command Line
To log in from the command line, run:
npx dbos-cloud login
This command provides a URL to a secure login portal from which you can log in.
After you log in, your credentials will be stored in .dbos/credentials.
They automatically expire after 24 hours.
To delete your credentials and log out, run:
npx dbos-cloud logout
Authenticating Programatically
Sometimes, such as in a CI/CD pipeline, it is useful to authenticate programatically without providing credentials through a browser-based login portal. DBOS Cloud provides this capability with refresh tokens. To obtain a refresh token, run:
npx dbos-cloud login --get-refresh-token
This command has you authenticate through the browser, but obtains a refresh token and stores it in .dbos/credentials.
Once you have your token, you can use it to authenticate programatically without going through the browser with the following command:
npx dbos-cloud login --with-refresh-token <token>
Refresh tokens automatically expire after a year or after a month of inactivity. You can manually revoke them at any time:
npx dbos-cloud revoke <token>
Until they expire or are revoked, refresh tokens can be used to log in to your account. Treat them as secrets and keep them safe!