the cli

the reference below renders the same text the binary carries: what you read here is what --help and man ix print. every command holds one contract: stdout is data, stderr is progress, exit codes tell the truth. listings take --output json.

Bare ix opens the interactive dashboard: browse your VMs, see their state and usage, and shell into one. The commands below do the same jobs scriptably; default-command in the CLI config can rebind bare ix.

commands

ix open the interactive dashboard
ix apply Converge VMs on a project's configuration
ix new Create a VM from a template, a snapshot, or a flake
ix init Create a minimal ix project in the current directory
ix ls List your VMs
ix start Start stopped VMs
ix stop Stop running VMs
ix restart Restart running VMs
ix templates Manage the region's templates
ix shell Open a shell in a VM
ix console Attach to a VM's workload console
ix serial Attach to a VM's emulated serial console (host-terminated)
ix net Join a VM group's private overlay network (Linux only)
ix logs View captured output from a VM
ix vm Inspect VMs
ix snapshot Manage VM snapshots
ix rm Delete one or more VMs
ix group Manage VM east-west groups
ix keys Mint and manage API keys: one capped key per user or per agent, over the account's single balance
ix secret Store and manage account secrets for VM provisioning
ix billing View account billing, top up, and inspect usage
ix login Sign in through the ix website
ix me Show who you are signed in as, and against which server
ix update Update the ix CLI to the latest release