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Clanker is an AI-powered CLI tool that helps you query and manage your cloud infrastructure using natural language. Ask questions about your systems, get insights, and perform operations through an intelligent interface.
Clanker is currently in early alpha. It powers clankercloud.ai and is being actively developed.

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What is Clanker?

Clanker is a read-only agent that calls CLIs and APIs to answer questions about your infrastructure. It supports AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Cloudflare, and more—all through simple natural language queries. Instead of remembering complex CLI commands and navigating multiple dashboards, you can simply ask: 
clanker ask "what's the status of my chat service lambda?"
clanker ask "show me pods that are not running"
clanker ask "what ec2 instances are running?"

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Key features

Natural language queries

Ask questions in plain English instead of memorizing CLI commands and API syntax.

Multi-cloud support

Works with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub, Cloudflare, Terraform, and Postgres.

Infrastructure maker

Generate and apply infrastructure change plans with --maker mode for safe, reviewable operations.

Kubernetes management

Create clusters, deploy applications, query resources, and troubleshoot issues with natural language.

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How it works

Clanker uses a multi-stage LLM pipeline:
  1. Stage 1: Analyzes your question and determines which CLI operations or API calls are needed
  2. Stage 2: Executes the operations in parallel for fast results
  3. Stage 3: Combines results with context and generates a markdown response
Conversation history is maintained per environment for intelligent follow-up questions.

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Supported platforms

  • AWS: Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and more
  • Kubernetes: EKS, GKE, AKS, kubeadm clusters, pods, deployments, services, logs
  • GCP: Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, and other GCP services
  • Azure: Virtual Machines, App Services, and Azure resources
  • GitHub: Actions, pull requests, issues, and repository insights
  • Cloudflare: DNS, Workers, WAF, Zero Trust, and analytics
  • Terraform: Workspace management and state inspection
  • Postgres: Database queries and schema inspection

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Use cases

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Infrastructure monitoring

clanker ask "show me lambda functions with high error rates"
clanker ask "what's the current RDS instance status?"
clanker k8s ask "which pods are using the most memory?"

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Troubleshooting

clanker ask --profile dev "what's the last error from my big-api-service lambda?"
clanker k8s ask "why is my pod crashing?"
clanker ask "show me recent CloudWatch errors"

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Infrastructure changes

# Generate a plan
clanker ask --aws --maker "create a small ec2 instance and a postgres rds" > plan.json

# Review and apply the plan
clanker ask --aws --maker --apply < plan.json

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Get started

Installation

Install Clanker via Homebrew or from source in under a minute.

Quick start

Run your first query and start exploring your infrastructure.

Configuration

Set up AI providers, cloud credentials, and customize Clanker for your environments.

GitHub Repository

View the source code, contribute, or report issues.

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Why Clanker?

Skip the web UI navigation. Get answers instantly from your terminal with natural language queries.
Don’t remember the exact AWS CLI syntax? Just ask in plain English and Clanker handles the details.
Maker mode generates reviewable JSON plans before making any changes. Apply only what you approve.
Ask follow-up questions without repeating context. Clanker remembers your conversation per environment.

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Community and support

Clanker is read-only by default. It only calls CLIs and APIs to gather information. Infrastructure changes require explicit --maker mode.

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