Device Upgrade from CLI

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How can I manage device upgrades remotely, from a command line?

I have a fleet, where the devices are pinned to a specific release (auto upgrades off)
I want to upgrade a specific device or fleet to a different release.

I did not find a relevant command in balena cli.
The command “balena device os-update ” is for updating the Balena OS, and not the release.

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Hi there, I’ve just taken a look, and it turns out these CLI commands do exist, but it seems we haven’t documented them!

I found this command

Pin a device to a release.

USAGE
  $ balena device pin <uuid> [releaseToPinTo]

ARGUMENTS
  <uuid>            the uuid of the device to pin to a release
  [releaseToPinTo]  the commit of the release for the device to get pinned to

and

Pin a fleet to a release.

USAGE
  $ balena fleet pin <slug> [releaseToPinTo]

ARGUMENTS
  <slug>            the slug of the fleet to pin to a release
  [releaseToPinTo]  the commit of the release for the fleet to get pinned to

These will allow you to pin a specific fleet or device to a specified release.

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Just to correct myself, the CLI commands for pinning a device and fleet are documented here: Release policy - Balena Documentation

However I see how this is easily missed as the CLI docs page itself doesn’t document them. We will look into adding them there

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Hi,
Is that CLI command also exposed as HTTP endpoint?

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Hello @LiorVahav first of all welcome to the balena community!

did you check the API documentation? Resources - Balena Documentation

Let us know if that works for you!