Desktop

To run Kubetail on your desktop, you can use the Kubetail CLI tool (kubetail) to start/stop the Kubetail Dashboard and perform other operations on your cluster.

Install

Package Managers

Install the Kubetail CLI tool with your (kubetail) with your favorite package manager:

# Homebrew
brew install kubetail
 
# Krew
kubectl krew install kubetail
 
# Snap
sudo snap install kubetail
 
# Winget
winget install kubetail
 
# Chocolatey
choco install kubetail
 
# Scoop
scoop install kubetail
 
# MacPorts
sudo port install kubetail
 
# Ubuntu/Mint (apt)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubetail/kubetail
sudo apt update && sudo apt install kubetail-cli
 
# Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/Amazonlinux/Mageia (copr)
dnf copr enable kubetail/kubetail
dnf install kubetail
 
# SUSE (zypper)
zypper addrepo 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kubetail/$releasever/' kubetail
zypper refresh && zypper install kubetail-cli
 
# Alpine (apk)
apk add kubetail --repository=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing
 
# Arch Linux (AUR)
yay -S --noconfirm kubetail-cli
 
# Gentoo (GURU)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~$(portageq envvar ARCH)" emerge dev-util/kubetail
 
# Nix (Flake)
nix profile add github:kubetail-org/kubetail-nix
 
# Nix (Classic)
nix-env -i -f https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail-nix/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz
 
# asdf
asdf plugin add kubetail https://github.com/kubetail-org/asdf-kubetail.git
asdf install kubetail latest

By default, package managers will place the executable in a directory that’s already in to your path. To verify that the installation worked you can check the version number:

kubetail --version

Shell

To install the Kubetail CLI tool (kubetail) with a shell script you can run this command:

curl -sS https://www.kubetail.com/install.sh | bash

This will download our install.sh script and run it in one step. The script will automatically detect your OS/Arch, download the appropriate binary file and place it in your /usr/local/bin/ directory. To verify that the installation worked you can check the version number:

kubetail --version

Download Binary

First, download the binary for your OS/Arch (from the latest release binaries ):

• Darwin (amd64 , arm64 )
• Linux (amd64 , arm64 )
• Windows (amd64 , arm64 )

Next, rename the file and make it executable:

mv <filename> kubetail
chmod a+x kubetail

To verify that the installation worked you can check the version number:

./kubetail --version

Next Steps

To start the Kubetail Dashboard use the serve sub-command:

kubetail serve

This command will start the dashboard server in your terminal and open http://localhost:7500/  in your default browser.

For more information about the Kubetail Dashboard, check out the documentation here.

For more information about the Kubetail CLI tool, check out the documentation here.