kosli_create_flow.md

title	kosli create flow
description	Create or update a Kosli flow.

Synopsis

kosli create flow FLOW-NAME [flags]

Create or update a Kosli flow. You can specify flow parameters in flags.

FLOW-NAMEs must start with a letter or number, and only contain letters, numbers, ., -, _, and ~.

Flags

Flag	Description
--description string	[optional] The Kosli flow 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.
-h, --help	help for flow
-t, --template strings	[defaulted] The comma-separated list of required compliance controls names.
-f, --template-file string	[optional] The path to a yaml template file. Cannot be used together with --use-empty-template
--use-empty-template	Use an empty template for the flow creation without specifying a file. Cannot be used together with --template or --template-file

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Description
-a, --api-token string	The Kosli API token.
-c, --config-file string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default "kosli")
--debug	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout.
-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 string	The Kosli organization.
-q, --quiet	[optional] Suppress non-critical warning messages. Errors and normal output are not affected. If both --quiet and --debug are set, --debug wins.

Live Examples in different CI systems

View an example of the `kosli create flow` command in GitHub.

In [this YAML file](https://github.com/cyber-dojo/runner/blob/05fa6c14db21fa6a6f61c0e8ce08e929a28d13cd/.github/workflows/main.yml#L62)
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View an example of the `kosli create flow` command in GitLab.

In [this YAML file](https://gitlab.com/cyber-dojo/creator/-/blob/65fd2bfa2478534ea4bc5ccf30f6bfc6aab7550c/.gitlab/workflows/main.yml#L53)
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Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.

```shell kosli create flow yourFlowName --description yourFlowDescription --use-empty-template

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```shell
kosli create flow yourFlowName 
	--description yourFlowDescription 
	--template-file /path/to/your/template/file.yml