Installing

Prerequisite

kubectl is required, see here.

OSX From Homebrew

brew update && brew install kops

The kops binary is also available via our releases.

Linux

curl -LO 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-linux-amd64
sudo mv kops-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kops

Windows

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