UpCloud CLI, Checked Against UpCloud's Checksums

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The UpCloud CLI (upctl) on EL 10 from the vendor's GitHub release, checked against the SHA-256 the vendor published beside it, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.

No package, so the checksum is the whole story. EL 10 carries no upctl; UpCloud ships versioned releases on GitHub with a checksum file (checksums.txt) beside the assets. Most installs curl the asset and never open that file. This role downloads both and has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's file; the live test runs sha256sum -c against the same file afterwards. A download is verified against what UpCloud published, not against what happened to arrive.

Pinned. upcloud_cli_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory of its own (/usr/local/src/upctl-<version>) so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is changed=0.

Proven to run. The live test calls upctl server list with no credentials and expects the CLI to get to "user credentials not found" - the binary, its UpCloud client and its configuration lookup all ran; only the credentials were missing.

Credentials are per user. upctl reads them from the user's upctl.yaml, environment variables or a keyring; the role installs the binary only. UpCloud also publishes an SPDX SBOM beside each asset.

License

Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.