MongoDB Atlas CLI

The official command line for MongoDB Atlas — clusters, users, backups and the entire Admin API, without leaving the terminal.

3.2M+Downloads of its releases

69,300+Atlas customers it can manage

100%Of Admin API endpoints, generated

5 minTo add an endpoint, from 3–4 weeks

25K+Atlas CLI customers

01 / WHAT IT IS

The Atlas CLI is how teams script and automate MongoDB Atlas: provisioning clusters, managing access, wiring CI, and reaching every endpoint the Atlas Admin API exposes.

It ships through Homebrew, apt, yum, Chocolatey and Docker, carries a public plugin framework so other teams can extend it without touching its core, and its commands are generated from the Admin API's OpenAPI spec rather than written by hand.

02 / WHAT I DID

Code generation · plugin framework

Led design and delivery of an open-source auto-generation tool in Go and OpenAPI that generates a command for every Atlas Admin API endpoint — saving 2–3 engineer-years of manual implementation and cutting endpoint work from 3–4 weeks to a five-minute PR review.
Founded a cross-team automation working group spanning the Atlas Kubernetes Operator, APIx Integrations and Terraform teams, so one generator serves all of them instead of three near-copies.
Designed the Atlas CLI Plugins framework and mentored the project lead through every stage of shipping it — public, extensible, internally adopted, and announced on MongoDB's engineering blog.
Engineered Java backend features for the Atlas Admin API behind the public launch of the new "Preview" stability level, letting MongoDB iterate faster while keeping production guarantees for 65,000+ Atlas customers.

GoOpenAPIJavaCobraHomebrew

03 / WHERE IT SAT

Senior Software Engineer @ MongoDB

Jan 2024 — Present · Dublin, Ireland

Full history ↗

04 / WRITTEN ABOUT IT

2026-06-11Generating a CLI for every endpoint of an APIgo · openapi 2025-06-24MongoDB Atlas CLI: Full API Coverage and Faster UpdatesMongoDB Blog ↗go · openapi 2024-11-19Plugins without forking: extending a CLI from the outsidego

05 / SOURCE

mongodb/mongodb-atlas-cli ↗ mongodb/atlas-cli-core ↗