Installing Skaffold

Note

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Stable binary

For the latest stable release download and place it in your PATH:

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64

Run these commands to download and place the binary in your /usr/local/bin folder:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64
chmod +x skaffold
sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Latest bleeding edge binary

For the latest bleeding edge build, download and place it in your PATH:

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64

Run these commands to download and place the binary in your /usr/local/bin folder:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64
chmod +x skaffold
sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Homebrew

brew install skaffold

Stable binary

For the latest stable release download and place it in your PATH:

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-darwin-amd64

Run these commands to download and place the binary in your /usr/local/bin folder:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-darwin-amd64
chmod +x skaffold
sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Bleeding edge binary

For the latest bleeding edge build, download and place it in your PATH:

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-darwin-amd64

Run these commands to download and place the binary in your /usr/local/bin folder:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-darwin-amd64
chmod +x skaffold
sudo mv skaffold /usr/local/bin

Chocolatey

choco install skaffold

Stable binary

For the latest stable release download and place it in your PATH as skaffold.exe:

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Bleeding edge binary

For the latest bleeding edge build, download and place it in your PATH as skaffold.exe:

https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-windows-amd64.exe

Stable binary

For the latest stable release, you can use:

docker run gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:latest skaffold <command>

Bleeding edge binary

For the latest bleeding edge build:

docker run gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:edge skaffold <command>

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