Installing

Prerequisite

kubectl is required, see here.

macOS and Linux From Homebrew

brew update && brew install kops

The kops binary is also available via our releases.

GitHub Releases

Linux

curl -Lo kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64
chmod +x kops
sudo mv kops /usr/local/bin/kops

macOS

curl -Lo kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-darwin-amd64
chmod +x kops
sudo mv kops /usr/local/bin/kops

Windows

1. Get kops-windows-amd64 from our releases.
2. Rename kops-windows-amd64 to kops.exe and store it in a preferred path.
3. Make sure the path you chose is added to your Path environment variable.