Installation

• Mac OSX
• Linux
• Windows
• Docker

NOTE: kconnect requires kubectl for k8s cluster cli interaction.

NOTE: kconnect requires aws-iam-authenticator for authentication to AWS EKS clusters.

NOTE: kconnect requires kubelogin for non-interactive authentication to Azure AKS clusters.

NOTE: kconnect requires az cli for interactive authentication to Azure AKS clusters.

NOTE:> For specific tested and pinned versions, use the install-kconnect.sh script or the with-deps docker image

kubectl plugin

To install as a kubectl plugin:

kubectl krew index add fidelity https://github.com/fidelity/krew-index.git
kubectl krew install fidelity/connect

You can then run like so:

kubectl connect use eks

Mac

To install on OSX you can use homebrew:

brew install fidelity/tap/kconnect

Alternatively you can download a binary from the latest release.

Linux

To install on Linux you can use homebrew:

brew install fidelity/tap/kconnect

Alternatively, the latest release contains .deb, .rpm and binaries for Linux.

We are working on publishing as a snap.

Windows

The latest release contains a binary for Windows.

We have an open issue to support chocolatey in the future/

Docker

You can also use kconnect via Docker by using the images we publish to Docker Hub:

docker pull docker.io/kconnectcli/kconnect:latest
docker run -it --rm -v ~/.kconnect:/.kconnect kconnect:latest use eks --idp-protocol saml

Install script

You can install kconnect, along with kubectl, helm and aws-iam-authenticator by running:

curl -fsSL -o install-kconnect.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fidelity/kconnect/main/scripts/install-kconnect.sh
chmod 700 install-kconnect.sh
./install-kconnect.sh

This works on Linux, Macos and Windows (using GitBash terminal)