Installing the Testkube CLI

The Testkube CLI allows you to both manage your Testkube installation and interact with your Testkube resources, such as running creating Test Workflows, starting test executions, managing triggers, etc - see CLI Commands Reference for all commands.

MacOS

brew install testkube

Windows

choco source add --name=kubeshop_repo --source=https://chocolatey.kubeshop.io/chocolatey
choco install testkube -y

Ubuntu

To install Testkube CLI you'll need the following tools:

• Kubectl, Kubernetes command-line tool
• Helm

wget -qO - https://repo.testkube.io/key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repo.testkube.io/linux linux main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y testkube

Script

To install Testkube CLI you'll need the following tools:

• Kubectl, Kubernetes command-line tool
• Helm

curl -sSLf https://get.testkube.io | sh

Manual Download

To install Testkube CLI you'll need the following tools:

• Kubectl, Kubernetes command-line tool
• Helm

1. Download the binary for the version and platform of your choice here.
2. Unpack it. For example, in Linux use tar -zxvf testkube_1.5.1_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz.
3. Move it to a location in the PATH. For example:

mv  testkube_1.5.1_Linux_x86_64/kubectl-testkube /usr/local/bin/kubectl-testkube

For Windows, you will need to unpack the binary and add it to the %PATH% as well.

note

If you use a package manager that we don't support, please let us know here #161.

Validating the Testkube CLI

You can validate the CLI and server their version as follows:

$ testkube version
Context:  (1.17.15)   Namespace: testkube
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                                           /tɛst kjub/ by Kubeshop


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