Leveraging CLI Community Plugins

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Community CLI plugins turn Cloud Foundry’s generic CLI into targeted tools: the log-cache plugin condenses log-cache JSON to cache duration and item count instead of dumping raw JSON, the log plugin adds unix-like tail and follow behavior, and many plugins install from the Cloud Foundry repo or a local/GitHub binary so you can install from community repo or local binary. Plugins are small Go binaries (main.go is tiny), expand cf subcommands, are widely used, and require basic vetting for trust.

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1. 0:00Introduction to CLI plugins
2. 1:05Why use CLI plugins
3. 2:53Discovering community plugins
4. 5:03Demo installing plugins
5. 8:42Demo using log cache plugin
6. 10:52Demo tail vs tail follow
7. 11:17Finding plugins online
8. 13:13Contributing plugins back
9. 14:35Adding plugin repositories
10. 15:00Developing CLI plugins
11. 17:39Q&A on plugins

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