Starting from Alibaba Cloud CLI 3.3.0, each cloud service ships as an independent plugin that you install on demand — no need to wait for a CLI core release to get support for a new service. Browse supported services in the CLI Center or query them from the command line.
Find services in the CLI Center
The CLI Center lists all cloud services that support CLI. Browse by category, search by keyword, and view API versions, commands, parameters, and usage examples for each service.
Find services from the command line
List all available plugins:
aliyun plugin list-remote
Search for a service by keyword (prefix match):
aliyun plugin search <keyword>
Example output:
Total plugins available: 322
Name Latest Version Preview Status Local Version Description
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aliyun-cli-bssopenapi 0.3.0 No Installed 0.3.0 Aliyun CLI plugin for Alibaba Cloud Billing operations with multi-version API support.
aliyun-cli-ecs 0.3.0 No Installed 0.3.0 Aliyun CLI plugin for Elastic Compute Service operations.
aliyun-cli-ess 0.3.0 No Installed 0.3.0 Aliyun CLI plugin for Auto Scaling operations with multi-version API support.
aliyun-cli-fc 0.3.0 No Installed 0.3.0 Aliyun CLI plugin for Function Compute 3.0 operations.
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Install a plugin
Install a plugin:
aliyun plugin install --names <plugin-name>
Once installed, run aliyun <plugin-name> <sub-command> to use the plugin. Plugin updates and removal are covered in Install CLI plugins for cloud services.