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Installation and Setup

Kubebuilder requires multiple binaries to be installed and cannot be installed with go get.

Installing a stable release

Install kubebuilder by downloading the latest stable release from the github repo.

version=1.0.8 # latest stable version
arch=amd64

# download the release
curl -L -O "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/download/v${version}/kubebuilder_${version}_darwin_${arch}.tar.gz"

# extract the archive
tar -zxvf kubebuilder_${version}_darwin_${arch}.tar.gz
mv kubebuilder_${version}_darwin_${arch} kubebuilder && sudo mv kubebuilder /usr/local/

# update your PATH to include /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/kubebuilder/bin

version=1.0.8 # latest stable version
arch=amd64

# download the release
curl -L -O "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/download/v${version}/kubebuilder_${version}_linux_${arch}.tar.gz"

# extract the archive
tar -zxvf kubebuilder_${version}_linux_${arch}.tar.gz
mv kubebuilder_${version}_linux_${arch} kubebuilder && sudo mv kubebuilder /usr/local/

# update your PATH to include /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/kubebuilder/bin

Installing latest release from master

You can install the latest kubebuilder release built from the master. Note that this release is not well tested, so you might encounter some bugs.

arch=amd64

# download the release
curl -L -O https://storage.googleapis.com/kubebuilder-release/kubebuilder_master_darwin_${arch}.tar.gz

# extract the archive
tar -zxvf kubebuilder_master_darwin_${arch}.tar.gz
mv kubebuilder_master_darwin_${arch} kubebuilder && sudo mv kubebuilder /usr/local/

# update your PATH to include /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/kubebuilder/bin

arch=amd64

# download the release
curl -L -O https://storage.googleapis.com/kubebuilder-release/kubebuilder_master_linux_${arch}.tar.gz

# extract the archive
tar -zxvf kubebuilder_master_linux_${arch}.tar.gz
mv kubebuilder_master_linux_${arch} kubebuilder && sudo mv kubebuilder /usr/local/

# update your PATH to include /usr/local/kubebuilder/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/kubebuilder/bin