Plan and Apply

The primary function of the Permguard CLI is to manage schemas and policies.

Provisioning in Permguard involves creating and managing these elements, which include schemas and policies.

This is primarily done using the plan and apply commands.

Plan#

The plan command evaluates the configurations and determines the desired state of all objects (schemas, policies) to be created, modified, or destroyed on the server.

Essentially, this command compares the current state of the working directory with the server’s state and outputs the changes that will be applied.

This command does not apply any changes to the server; it only displays the necessary changes required to achieve the desired state.

 permguard plan

Apply#

The apply command performs a plan, similar to the plan command, but it also applies the changes to the server.

By default, apply performs a fresh plan right before applying changes. However, it is possible to apply an existing plan by providing the state file.

 permguard apply