Fluvio provides support for multiple profiles out of the box, meaning that you can communicate with distinct clusters in an isolated and managed way. A profile is a collection of settings and credentials that are applied to a Fluvio session. Each profile defines the means to communicate with a particular Fluvio cluster. One profile is active (or “current”) at any given time, and all other Fluvio commands will interact with the cluster defined by the active profile. Profiles are defined in the Fluvio configuration file at ~/.fluvio/config, and the fluvio profile family of commands is used to view and manipulate profiles.

Prints out the name of the active Fluvio profile. Let’s say you have a Fluvio Cloud account whose profile name is “cloud”, and you have a local Fluvio cluster installed that you use for development, whose profile name is “local”.

If your current profile is “local”, then a command such as fluvio topic create greeting will create a “greeting” topic on your local cluster.

fluvio-profile-current
Print the name of the current context

USAGE:
fluvio profile current

FLAGS:
-h, --help    Prints help information

Example usage:

$ fluvio profile current
local

Deletes a profile from your Fluvio configuration (~/.fluvio/config). This will not delete a cluster (for that, see fluvio cluster delete), but it will cause the Fluvio CLI to no longer be able to interact with that cluster.

fluvio-profile-delete
Delete the named profile

USAGE:
    fluvio profile delete <profile name>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help    Prints help information

ARGS:
    <profile name>

Example usage:

$ fluvio profile delete local
profile local deleted

If you try to delete the current profile, you will get a warning, because other CLI commands depend on having a current profile being set.

$ fluvio profile delete local
profile local deleted
warning: this removed your current profile, use 'fluvio profile switch' to select a different one

Deletes cluster connection information from your Fluvio configuration. This will not delete a cluster itself (for that see fluvio cluster delete), but it will cause the Fluvio CLI to no longer be able to connect to that cluster.

fluvio-profile-delete-cluster
Delete the named cluster

USAGE:
    fluvio profile delete-cluster [FLAGS] <cluster name>

FLAGS:
    -f, --force    Deletes a cluster even if its active
    -h, --help     Prints help information

ARGS:
    <cluster name>    The name of a cluster connection to delete

Example usage:

$ fluvio profile delete-cluster local
Cluster local deleted

This switches the “current” profile. After switching current profiles, all subsequent Fluvio CLI commands that interact with a cluster will target the cluster of the new “current” profile.

fluvio-profile-switch
Switch to the named profile

USAGE:
    fluvio profile switch <profile name>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help    Prints help information

ARGS:
    <profile name>

Example usage:

$ fluvio profile switch cloud

Prints a table of your profiles, including the address of the associated cluster and which profile is active.

fluvio-profile-list
Display all Fluvio profiles

USAGE:
    fluvio profile list

FLAGS:
    -h, --help    Prints help information
    
OPTIONS:
    -O, --output <type>    Output [default: table]  [possible values: table,
                           yaml, json]

Example usage:

$ fluvio profile list
    PROFILE    CLUSTER    ADDRESS                          TLS
 *  minikube   minikube   10.99.16.213:9003                Disabled
    local      local      localhost:9003                   Disabled