[Viya] viya-cli - provide a portable archive including plugins OR enable internet proxy settings

[ronan]

Hi,

The viya-cli tool implicitly requires a direct link to sas.com Internet portal in order to install the plug-ins collection . Except for cloud jumpboxes or personal Macbook, on-premise installation within large organisations use company proxy servers to reach the internet, which means that 

• either viya-cli archive has to be provided, as a download archive, in sas.com portal in a portable version, including every plugin  OOTB inclusively (1), 
• or viya-cli install syntax must be able to use http/https proxy settings  (environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY) (2)

or both !

The following discussion might imply that the option (2) is already planned in a future release.

How to use sas cli in proxy environment - SAS Support Communities

I checked the release sas-viya version 1.21.9 on Linux before posting.

Best Regards

Ronan

[shalaka]

Could you please check if your proxy server allows https://support.sas.com? If it does then you should be able to download the plugins. Proxy support was added in sas-viya-cli version 1.21.6.

[abpm22]

This suggestion has been implemented based on the previous comment by Shalaka and also as of LTS 2024.03, viya-cli and its plugins are provided as a container. Documentation for this update is available here.