Install Kubectl

To enable management of the Kubernetes cluster the kubectl command is used.

Install

Download the kubectl command.

On Mac

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl

On Linux

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

Setup kubectl permissions and move it to the bin/ directory.

$ chmod +x kubectl
$ sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

Confirm the version of kubectl.

$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"7", GitVersion:"v1.7.1",.. ", GoVersion:"go1.8.3"

Note As the Kubernetes API server is not yet deployed the kubectl version command will take a while to timeout before showing you the version.

To further configure kubectl please refer to the great documentation on the kubernetes.io site.

Enable Command Completion

Enable Bash completetion for kubectl.

On Mac

If running Bash 3.2 (included with macOS).

$ brew install bash-completion
$ kubectl completion -h
$ source $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion

On Linux

$ source <(kubectl completion bash)
$ echo "source <(kubectl completion bash)" >> ~/.bashrc

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