pcloud CLI Release Notes

Version 1.108.0 (2025-09-16)

pcloud auth

  • The pcloud auth login command now supports non-interactive authentication using a Google Cloud Service Account Key file via the --serviceAccountKey flag. See Create a service account key to understand how to create the key file.
  • You can now set the account and cloud instance directly upon login using the --account and --cloudInstance flags.

pcloud compute clouds

  • This new command group is only available if your subscription is using a usage based billing plan.
  • Added the pcloud compute clouds create command to create a new Cloud Instance in a specific region.
  • Added the pcloud compute clouds delete command to delete a Cloud Instance.
  • The default quota for cloud instance count is set to 2. This quota can be increased by contacting support.

pcloud compute sshkeys

  • The pcloud compute sshkeys create command now includes a --keyfile flag to provide an SSH public key from a file.
  • Added support for a broader range of ssh key types (Examples: ecdsa, ed25519…)

pcloud config

  • The pcloud config set account command now supports the --cloudInstance flag to set the cloud instance simultaneously.

pcloud private-connections

  • This new command group is only available if your subscription is using a usage based billing plan.
  • Introduced the new pcloud private-connections command group to manage private connections. This includes the following subcommands:
    • list: View all private connections.
    • describe: Get detailed information for a specific private connection.
    • update: Modify the name, bandwidth, or status (enable/disable) of a private connection.

Version 1.106.1 (2025-06-17)

  • New commands
    • Added pcloud compute volume-groups update
    • Added pcloud compute volumes replication crete-aux-group
  • Updated commands
    • Fixed help in pcloud completions
    • Removed --name flag in pcloud compute volume-groups create
    • Clarified help for affinity/anti-affinity in pcloud compute volumes create
    • Clarified help for --name in pcloud compute volumes replication onboard

Version 1.101.0 (2025-03-26)

  • Initial release of Storage Based Replication Commands
    • Add pcloud compute volumes replication
    • Add pcloud compute volumes replication disable
    • Add pcloud compute volumes replication enable
    • Add pcloud compute volumes replication onboard
  • Modified finding storage pools, add pcloud compute volumes list pools
    • Deprecated pcloud compute volumes spools
  • Initial release of volume groups
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups add-volumes
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups create
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups delete
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups describe
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups list
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups relationship
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups remove-volumes
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups reset
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups start
    • Add pcloud compute volume groups stop
  • Added fields to pcloud compute volumes list to support Storage Based Replication
  • The command pcloud compute print-access-token now supports a -b, --bare flag

Version 1.100.0 (2024-12-09)

  • Add listing volume pools using pcloud compute volumes spools
  • Add Volume Pool specification to allow users to specify the target volume pool when using pcloud compute volumes create
  • Add pcloud compute instances dumprestart to enable dumprestart functionality for VM Instances

Version 1.99.11 (2024-09-30)

  • Expand acceptable datetime inputs for pcloud compute events to pcloud compute events list

Version 1.91.0 (2023-12-05)

  • Add WWN to pcloud compute volumes describe

Version 1.5.0 (2023-08-04)

  • Add volume transfer capability with pcloud compute volumes transfer