kosli create environment

Synopsis

kosli create environment ENVIRONMENT-NAME [flags]

Create or update a Kosli environment. --type must match the type of environment you wish to record snapshots from. The following types are supported:

k8s - Kubernetes
ecs - Amazon Elastic Container Service
s3 - Amazon S3 object storage
lambda - AWS Lambda serverless
docker - Docker images
azure-apps - Azure app services
server - Generic type
logical - Logical grouping of real environments

By default, kosli will not make new snapshots for scaling events (change in number of instances running). For large clusters the scaling events will often outnumber the actual change of SW. It is possible to enable new snapshots for scaling events with the —include-scaling flag, or turn it off again with the —exclude-scaling. Logical environments are used for grouping of physical environments. For instance prod-aws and prod-s3 can be grouped into logical environment prod. Logical environments are view-only, you can not report snapshots to them. ENVIRONMENT-NAMEs must start with a letter or number, and only contain letters, numbers, ., - and _.

Flags

Flag	Description
`-d`, `--description` string	[optional] The environment description.
`-D`, `--dry-run`	[optional] Run in dry-run mode. When enabled, no data is sent to Kosli and the CLI exits with 0 exit code regardless of any errors.
`--exclude-scaling`	[optional] Exclude scaling events for snapshots. Snapshots with scaling changes will not result in new environment records.
`-h`, `--help`	help for environment
`--include-scaling`	[optional] Include scaling events for snapshots. Snapshots with scaling changes will result in new environment records.
`--included-environments` strings	[optional] Comma separated list of environments to include in logical environment
`-t`, `--type` string	The type of environment. Valid types are: [K8S, ECS, S3, lambda, server, docker, azure-apps, cloud-run, logical].

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Description
`-a`, `--api-token` string	The Kosli API token.
`-c`, `--config-file` string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default “kosli”)
`--debug`	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout.
`-H`, `--host` string	[defaulted] The Kosli endpoint. (default “https://app.kosli.com”)
`--http-proxy` string	[optional] The HTTP proxy URL including protocol and port number. e.g. `http://proxy-server-ip:proxy-port`
`-r`, `--max-api-retries` int	[defaulted] How many times should API calls be retried when the API host is not reachable. (default 3)
`--org` string	The Kosli organization.
`-q`, `--quiet`	[optional] Suppress non-critical warning messages. Errors and normal output are not affected. If both `--quiet` and `--debug` are set, `--debug` wins.

Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.

create a Kosli environment

kosli create environment yourEnvironmentName
	--type K8S 
	--description "my new env" 

create a Kosli logical environment

kosli create environment yourLogicalEnvironmentName
	--type logical 
	--included-environments realEnv1,realEnv2,realEnv3
	--description "my full prod" 

Last modified on June 22, 2026

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