circleci mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• circleci

Projektgeschichte

The CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli repository was created in June 2018. CircleCI's installation docs identify it as the newer open-source CLI and include migration instructions for users who had the old CLI installed before October 2018.

The current main-branch README states that main tracks a preview rewrite and that the stable CLI remains separately installable. That same README describes the v1 preview as a ground-up rewrite with run, deploy, workflow, pipeline, envvar, JSON-output, shell-completion, and MCP support.

Adoptionsgeschichte

CircleCI's docs recommend package managers for most installations and document Homebrew for macOS, Snap for Linux, Chocolatey for Windows, manual GitHub release downloads, and a curl-based installer. The README adds winget and a CircleCI tap for preview builds.

Homebrew currently packages stable v0.1.38646 from the official Git repository and reports thousands of 90-day install-on-request events, reflecting routine developer-tool usage among CircleCI users.

Wie es verwendet wird

Official docs emphasize validating .circleci/config.yml before pushing, processing and packing configs, running local jobs in containers, managing orbs, managing contexts, and using an API token generated from CircleCI account settings during setup.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

CircleCI CLI is important to package-manager culture because it is the local companion binary for a hosted CI/CD platform. Its packaging has to track both stable and preview channels, multiple OS package managers, authentication setup, and a fast-moving cloud API surface.

Zeitleiste

• 2018-06-19: CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli repository created.
• 2018-10: CircleCI docs describe switching users from the pre-October-2018 legacy CLI to the newer open-source CLI.
• 2026: Main branch README documents a preview v1 rewrite.
• 2026-06-29: GitHub releases include v1.0 preview builds.
• 2026: Homebrew packages stable v0.1.38646.

Related projects

• circleci/local-cli is the old CLI referenced by CircleCI's upgrade instructions.
• CircleCI orbs and the orb development kit are major workflows exposed through the CLI.
• FYAML is the configuration packing scheme linked from CircleCI CLI docs.
• CircleCI's VS Code extension is presented in the docs as another way to validate CircleCI configuration.

Quellen

• https://circleci.com/docs/guides/toolkit/local-cli/
• https://circleci.com/docs/guides/toolkit/how-to-use-the-circleci-local-cli/
• https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli#readme
• https://api.github.com/repos/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli
• https://api.github.com/repos/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli/releases
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/circleci.json