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Installing the Knative CLI
This guide provides details about how you can install the Knative kn
client (CLI) using various methods.
Install kn
using an executable binary
To install the kn
Client, you must download the executable binary for your system. Links to the latest stable executable binary releases are available on the kn
release page.
You must place the executable binary in your system path, and make sure that it is executable.
Install kn
using nightly executable binary
Nightly executable binaries are available for users who want to install the most recent pre-release features of kn
. These binaries include all kn
features, even those not included in the latest stable release.
WARNING: Nightly executable binaries include features which may not be included in the latest stable Knative release, and are therefore not considered to be stable.
To install the kn
Client, you must download the executable binary for your system. Links to the latest nightly executable binaries are available here:
You must place the executable binary in your system path, and make sure that it is executable.
Install kn
using Go
Prerequisite: Building kn
requires Go v1.14 or newer. You will first need a working Go environment.
- Check out the Client repository:
git clone https://github.com/knative/client.git
cd client/
- Build an executable binary:
hack/build.sh -f
- Move
kn
into your system path, and verify thatkn
commands are working properly. For example:
kn version
Install kn
using brew
For macOs, you can install kn using brew.
kn
container images
The kn
container images are available for users who require these for additional use cases. For example, if you want to use the kn
container image with Tekton.
Links to either the nightly container image or the latest stable container image are available here:
You can run kn
from a container image. For example:
docker run --rm -v "$HOME/.kube/config:/root/.kube/config" gcr.io/knative-releases/knative.dev/client/cmd/kn:latest service list
Using kn
with Tekton
You can also run kn using Tekton.
What’s next
To learn more about using kn
, see the documentation.
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