Krew

Krew is the plugin manager for kubectl command-line tool.

Krew installation

• macOS: brew install krew
• Linux: https://krew.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user-guide/setup/install/

(
 set -x; cd "$(mktemp -d)" &&
 OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" &&
 ARCH="$(uname -m | sed -e 's/x86_64/amd64/' -e 's/\(arm\)\(64\)\?.*/\1\2/' -e 's/aarch64$/arm64/')" &&
 KREW="krew-${OS}_${ARCH}" &&
 curl -fsSLO "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/krew/releases/latest/download/${KREW}.tar.gz" &&
 tar zxvf "${KREW}.tar.gz" &&
 ./"${KREW}" install krew
)

Usage

• kubectl krew
• kubectl krew install virt
• kubectl krew search
• kubectl krew upgrade
• kubectl krew version

Related terms

• virctl
• Stash (K8s backup)
• Kots

See also

• krew, kubectl krew [ search | install | update ]
• kubectl: [ cp | config | create | delete | edit | explain | apply | exec | get | set | drain | uncordon | rolling-update | rollout | logs | run | auth | label | annotate | version | top | diff | debug | replace | describe | port-forward | proxy | scale | rollout | api-resources | expose deployment | expose | patch | attach | get endpoints | ~/.kube/config | kubectl logs --help | kubectl --help, kubectl-convert, kubectl autoscale, kubectl.kubernetes.io