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Synopsis

kosli request approval [IMAGE-NAME | FILE-PATH | DIR-PATH] [flags]
Request an approval of a deployment of an artifact to an environment in Kosli.
The request should be reviewed in the Kosli UI.
The artifact fingerprint can be provided directly with the --fingerprint flag, or calculated based on --artifact-type flag. Artifact type can be one of: “file” for files, “dir” for directories, “oci” for container images in registries or “docker” for local docker images.

Flags

FlagDescription
-t, —artifact-type stringThe type of the artifact to calculate its SHA256 fingerprint. One of: [oci, docker, file, dir]. Only required if you want Kosli to calculate the fingerprint for you (i.e. when you don’t specify ‘—fingerprint’ on commands that allow it).
-d, —description string[optional] The approval description.
-D, —dry-run[optional] Run in dry-run mode. When enabled, no data is sent to Kosli and the CLI exits with 0 exit code regardless of any errors.
-e, —environment string[defaulted] The environment the artifact is approved for. (defaults to all environments)
-x, —exclude strings[optional] The comma separated list of directories and files to exclude from fingerprinting. Can take glob patterns. Only applicable for —artifact-type dir.
-F, —fingerprint string[conditional] The SHA256 fingerprint of the artifact. Only required if you don’t specify ‘—artifact-type’.
-f, —flow stringThe Kosli flow name.
-h, —helphelp for approval
—newest-commit string[defaulted] The source commit sha for the newest change in the deployment. Can be any commit-ish. (default “HEAD”)
—oldest-commit string[conditional] The source commit sha for the oldest change in the deployment. Can be any commit-ish. Only required if you don’t specify ‘—environment’.
—registry-password string[conditional] The container registry password or access token. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry.
—registry-username string[conditional] The container registry username. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry.
—repo-root string[defaulted] The directory where the source git repository is available. (default ”.”)
-u, —user-data string[optional] The path to a JSON file containing additional data you would like to attach to the approval.

Flags inherited from parent commands

FlagDescription
-a, —api-token stringThe Kosli API token.
-c, —config-file string[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default “kosli”)
—debug[optional] Print debug logs to stdout. A boolean flag docs (default false)
-H, —host string[defaulted] The Kosli endpoint. (default “https://app.kosli.com”)
—http-proxy string[optional] The HTTP proxy URL including protocol and port number. e.g. ‘http://proxy-server-ip:proxy-port
-r, —max-api-retries int[defaulted] How many times should API calls be retried when the API host is not reachable. (default 3)
—org stringThe Kosli organization.

Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.
# Request an approval for an artifact with a provided fingerprint (sha256)
# for deployment to environment <yourEnvironmentName>.
# The approval is for all git commits since the last approval to this environment.
kosli request approval \
	--api-token yourAPIToken \
	--description "An optional description for the approval" \
	--environment yourEnvironmentName \
	--org yourOrgName \
	--flow yourFlowName \
	--fingerprint yourArtifactFingerprint

# Request that a file type artifact needs approval for deployment to environment <yourEnvironmentName>.
# The approval is for all git commits since the last approval to this environment.
kosli request approval FILE.tgz \
	--api-token yourAPIToken \
	--artifact-type file \
	--description "An optional description for the requested approval" \
	--environment yourEnvironmentName \
	--newest-commit HEAD \
	--org yourOrgName \
	--flow yourFlowName 

# Request an approval for an artifact with a provided fingerprint (sha256).
# The approval is for all environments.
# The approval is for all commits since the git commit of origin/production branch.
kosli request approval \
	--api-token yourAPIToken \
	--description "An optional description for the requested approval" \
	--newest-commit HEAD \
	--oldest-commit origin/production \
	--org yourOrgName \
	--flow yourFlowName \
	--fingerprint yourArtifactFingerprint
Last modified on March 11, 2026