How-to guides

Use a how-to guide when you already understand the Drift CLI basics and need to complete a specific operator task. Each guide identifies prerequisites, the procedure, verification, and recovery where the operation can leave uncertain state.

Configure admin access — select an endpoint and supply a tenant admin key without storing the secret in configuration.
Create a tenant key — issue a narrowly scoped service credential and handle its one-time secret.
Revoke a tenant key — stop a credential permanently and verify the result.
Rotate a tenant key — replace a credential when there is no overlap period.
Restore a soft-deleted record — inspect and restore a known vertex or edge with its current version.
Use JSON output in automation — consume stable output without leaking credentials.