generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
source: https://docs.vian.ai/5.0-r2/vianctl.html
name: vianctl
description: >-
  The Vianai Command Line Interface (vianctl) is the hila platform CLI, run from a local
  machine to manage and use hila instances on remote machines. It is packaged with the
  Python client (vianops-client) wheel and wraps the hila REST APIs.
docs: https://docs.vian.ai/5.0-r2/vianctl.html
reference: https://docs.vian.ai/5.0-r2/vianctl-reference.html
install:
- method: wheel
  steps:
  - 'wget --content-disposition --header "x-api-key:<YOUR_API_KEY>" "https://webservices.<STACK>.vianai.site/v1/sdk"'
  - 'pip install <VIANOPS_CLIENT_version*.whl> --break-system-packages'
  - 'export PATH=/home/<USERNAME>/.local/bin:.:$PATH'
command_groups:
- name: config
  description: Manage connection to hila stacks (remote deployments).
  commands:
  - vianctl config add-stack
verified_surface: >-
  Command surface captured from the public vianctl page; the full command tree is in the
  deployment-hosted vianctl reference. Only the config add-stack flow is quoted verbatim
  here to avoid fabricating unseen subcommands.