upgrade - Pylon

These utility commands help you keep Pylon up to date, check what version you’re running, and improve your terminal workflow with tab completion.

pylon upgrade

Downloads and replaces the current Pylon binary with the latest release from GitHub.

pylon upgrade

What it does:

Detects your OS and architecture (linux/amd64 or linux/arm64)
Downloads the latest binary from https://github.com/pylonto/pylon/releases/latest/
Verifies the new binary runs (pylon version)
Replaces the current binary in-place
Rebuilds agent Docker images from the embedded files in the new binary
If the Pylon systemd service is running, restarts it automatically

Current: pylon v0.3.1
Downloading latest from https://github.com/pylonto/pylon/releases/latest/download/pylon-linux-amd64...
Upgraded: pylon v0.3.2
Restarting daemon...
Daemon restarted.

If the binary is installed in a system path (e.g. /usr/local/bin), you may need to run sudo pylon upgrade.

pylon version

Prints the current installed version.

pylon version
# pylon v0.3.2

pylon completion

Generates a tab-completion script for your shell. Add it to your shell profile for command and pylon-name completion.

pylon completion bash    # Bash
pylon completion zsh     # Zsh
pylon completion fish    # Fish

Add to your shell profile:

# Add to ~/.bashrc
eval "$(pylon completion bash)"

# Add to ~/.zshrc
eval "$(pylon completion zsh)"

# Add to ~/.config/fish/config.fish
pylon completion fish | source

Once enabled, press Tab after pylon to complete command names, and after commands like pylon start, pylon edit, or pylon test to complete pylon names.

pylon service

Manages a systemd unit that runs Pylon as a background service.

pylon service install    # install and enable the systemd unit
pylon service uninstall  # disable and remove the unit
pylon service status     # check whether the service is active

See Daemon for full details.

​pylon upgrade

​pylon version

​pylon completion

​pylon service

pylon upgrade

pylon version

pylon completion

pylon service