Install kubectl · Knowledge & Memory Center

STEP 1 OF 4

Download the latest stable kubectl binary for your OS/arch

Linux (amd64) / macOS

SHELL

1# Linux (amd64) - use arm64 on ARM machines

2curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -Ls https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

3sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl && rm kubectl

4

5# macOS

6brew install kubectl

7

8# Completion + alias (bash)

9echo 'source <(kubectl completion bash)' >> ~/.bashrc

10echo 'alias k=kubectl && complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k' >> ~/.bashrc

11source ~/.bashrc

12

13# Verify

14kubectl version --client

kubectl should be within one minor version of the cluster (a 1.33 client works with 1.32-1.34 servers). For zsh use kubectl completion zsh.