Installing kOps (Binaries) ¶

MacOS ¶

From Homebrew:

brew update && brew install kops

Developers can also easily install development releases.

From Github:

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/

You can also install from source.

Linux ¶

From Github:

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/

You can also install from source.

Installing Other Dependencies ¶

kubectl ¶

kubectl is the CLI tool to manage and operate Kubernetes clusters. You can install it as follows.

MacOS ¶

From Homebrew:

brew install kubernetes-cli

From the official kubernetes kubectl release:

curl -Lo kubectl https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -s -L https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Linux ¶

From the official kubernetes kubectl release:

curl -Lo kubectl https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -s -L https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Installing AWS CLI Tools ¶

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

On MacOS, Windows and Linux OS:

The officially supported way of installing the tool is with pip:

pip install awscli

OR use these alternative methods for MacOS and Windows: ¶

MacOS ¶

You can grab the tool with homebrew, although this is not officially supported by AWS.

brew update && brew install awscli

Windows ¶

You can download the MSI installer from this page and follow the steps through the installer which requires no other dependencies: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-windows.html