Tips and Tricks for the DataStax Astra CLI

The Astra CLI is a powerful command line interface that provides easy access to many useful commands for database administration tasks in GenAI applications. It can be installed on Mac, Linux, or Windows workstations and offers several commands such as astra db list, astra db resume, astra db describe, astra db create-collection, astra db list-collections, and astra db delete-collection for managing databases. Additionally, the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) shell tool is available for working with data and storage structures within Astra DB. The Astra CLI helps developers remain focused on their main tasks by allowing them to quickly perform essential database administration tasks from the command line.