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Install KubeDB kubectl Plugin
KubeDB provides a kubectl
plugin to interact with KubeDB resources.
Install using Krew
KubeDB kubectl
plugin can be installed using Krew. Krew is the plugin manager for kubectl command-line tool. To install follow the steps below:
Install
krew
following the steps here.If you have already installed
krew
, please upgradekrew
to version v0.4.0 or later so that you can use custom plugin indexes.
kubectl krew upgrade
kubectl krew version
- Add AppsCode’s kubectl plugin index. If you have already added the index, update the index.
kubectl krew index add appscode https://github.com/appscode/krew-index.git
kubectl krew index list
kubectl krew update
- Install KubeDB
kubectl
plugin following the commands below:
kubectl krew install appscode/dba
kubectl dba version
- If KubeDB
kubectl
plugin is already installed, run the following command to upgrade the plugin:
kubectl krew upgrade
kubectl dba version
Install using pre-built binary
You can download the pre-build binaries from kubedb/cli releases and put it into one of your installation directory denoted by $PATH
variable.
Here is a simple Linux command to install the latest 64-bit Linux binary directly into your /usr/local/bin
directory:
# Linux amd 64-bit
curl -o kubectl-dba.tar.gz -fsSL https://github.com/kubedb/cli/releases/download/v0.14.0-rc.1/kubectl-dba-linux-amd64.tar.gz \
&& tar zxvf kubectl-dba.tar.gz \
&& chmod +x kubectl-dba-linux-amd64 \
&& sudo mv kubectl-dba-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kubectl-dba \
&& rm kubectl-dba.tar.gz LICENSE.md
# Mac OSX 64-bit
curl -o kubectl-dba.tar.gz -fsSL https://github.com/kubedb/cli/releases/download/v0.14.0-rc.1/kubectl-dba-darwin-amd64.tar.gz \
&& tar zxvf kubectl-dba.tar.gz \
&& chmod +x kubectl-dba-darwin-amd64 \
&& sudo mv kubectl-dba-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kubectl-dba \
&& rm kubectl-dba.tar.gz LICENSE.md
If you prefer to install kubectl KubeDB cli from source code, make sure that your go development environment has been setup properly. Then, just run:
go get github.com/kubedb/cli/...
Please note that this will install KubeDB cli from master branch which might include breaking and/or undocumented changes.