This section walks you through how to install the CircleCI command line interface (CLI) on an AWS Graviton2 (Neoverse N1) Arm64 EC2 instance.
With the CLI, you can work with CircleCI from your terminal to check configuration files, manage pipelines, and run self-hosted runners on your EC2 instance.
Before installing the CircleCI CLI, ensure your system has the necessary tools for downloading and extracting files:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y curl tar gzip coreutils gpg git
Next, download the CircleCI CLI binary for Linux arm64 and extract it:
curl -fLSs https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli/releases/download/v0.1.33494/circleci-cli_0.1.33494_linux_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv circleci-cli_0.1.33494_linux_arm64/circleci /usr/local/bin/
curl command fetches the official CircleCI CLI archive from GitHub.| tar xz command extracts the compressed binary in a single step.circleci-cli_0.1.33494_linux_arm64 appears in your current directory.To ensure that the CLI is installed successfully, check its version:
circleci version
You should see an output similar to:
0.1.33494+7cc6570 (release)
If this version number appears, the CircleCI CLI installation on your AWS Graviton2 instance was successful!