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 upgrade krew 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/v0.42.0/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/v0.42.0/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.