Install Kops

To create, configure and destroy Kubernetes clusters on AWS the kops command is used.

Install

On Mac

On Mac the easiest way is to install kops is via the Brew package manager.

$ brew update && brew install kops

On Linux

On Linux the latest release 1.6.2 is available under: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/tag/1.6.2

$ wget https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/1.6.2/kops-linux-amd64

$ chmod +x kops-linux-amd64                 # Add execution permissions
$ mv kops-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kops   # Move the kops to /usr/local/bin

On Windows

On Windows install Ubuntu / CentOS with Vagrant and then use the previous Linux instructions.

Confirm the version of kops.

$ kops version
Version 1.6.2

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