Managing profiles

A profile is a named set of DB connection parameters stored in a configuration file in the local file system. With profiles, you can reuse data about DB location and authentication parameters, making a CLI call much shorter:

• Calling the scheme ls command without a profile:

  ydb \
  -e grpsc://some.host.in.some.domain:2136 \
  -d /some_long_identifier1/some_long_identifier2/database_name \
  --yc-token-file ~/secrets/token_database1 \
  scheme ls
  

• Calling the same scheme ls command using a profile:

  ydb -p quickstart scheme ls
  

Profile management commands

• Creating a profile
• Using a profile
• Getting a list of profiles and profile parameters
• Deleting a profile
• Activating a profile and using the activated profile

Where profiles are stored

Profiles are stored locally in a file named ~/ydb/config/config.yaml.