Working with the Postman CLI

The Postman CLI is a command-line tool that allows users to run collections, publish workspaces, lint API specifications, and trigger monitors directly from a terminal or within a CI/CD pipeline, providing a seamless integration with Postman Cloud. This guide details the installation, authentication, and usage of the Postman CLI, emphasizing its advantages over Newman, such as native Postman Cloud integration and ongoing support. The CLI facilitates running collections locally or in the cloud, specifying environments, overriding variables, and managing output formats. It also supports specific tasks like running single requests for debugging, publishing changes to Postman Cloud using native Git, and validating OpenAPI specs against governance rules. The guide also outlines how to integrate Postman CLI into a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, ensuring that collections are validated and published to the cloud upon merging to the main branch, thereby maintaining a clean and validated state for API consumers.

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