Embed Cube in your product

Embedding is where analytics leaves your team and reaches your customers, so the isolation model matters more than the mechanics. Most of the work is getting the security context right; the CLI part is short.

Preflight

command -v cube >/dev/null || echo "Cube CLI not installed: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cube-js/cube/master/install-cli.sh | sh"
cube whoami || echo "Not authenticated. Interactive: cube login. Headless: set CUBE_API_URL + CUBE_API_KEY."
cube context list

The model, before the commands

Four things, and conflating them is the usual source of confusion: