kops mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• kops

Projektgeschichte

The kOps repository was created under the Kubernetes GitHub organization on 2016-06-27, during the period when Kubernetes operators were still building practical tooling around cluster creation and upgrades. The README describes kOps as `kubectl` for clusters, reflecting its role as a higher-level administrative CLI rather than an application deployment tool.

Early release metadata shows v1.4.0-alpha.1 on 2016-09-08, with 1.4-era releases following in late 2016. The project then tracked Kubernetes minor versions closely enough that official docs describe a release cadence tied to Kubernetes releases, typically about a month later, after Kubernetes issues from a new version have had time to settle.

Adoptionsgeschichte

kOps became important because it filled a gap before managed Kubernetes offerings covered every common operational need. Its official support matrix grew around cloud targets including AWS and GCP, with additional providers such as DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OpenStack, and Azure documented at different support levels.

GitHub repository metadata observed on 2026-07-01 reported 16,632 stars and 4,710 forks, unusually high for an infrastructure lifecycle CLI. Its presence in Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and Scoop reflects a user base split across workstation operators and automation hosts.

Wie es verwendet wird

kOps is commonly used to create cluster specifications, store cluster state, provision cloud infrastructure, and perform Kubernetes upgrades. It also writes or relies on kubeconfig credentials, so package users tend to pair it with `kubectl` and cloud provider credentials.

For package-manager users, the value is that installing one CLI gives access to a whole cluster lifecycle workflow rather than only a client for an already-existing control plane.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

kOps is a classic Homebrew infrastructure formula: a single statically distributed CLI that hides a lot of distributed-systems machinery behind repeatable commands.

It also marks an era of Kubernetes packaging before every cloud had a polished managed-cluster console. Package indexes that carried kOps made serious Kubernetes cluster creation available from a developer laptop with one install command.

Zeitleiste

• 2016-06-27: GitHub repository created under kubernetes/kops.
• 2016-09-08: v1.4.0-alpha.1 appears in GitHub release metadata.
• 2016-12-21: v1.4.4 release published.
• 2026-07-01: GitHub repository metadata reported more than 16,000 stars and more than 4,700 forks.

Related projects

• kOps is closely related to Kubernetes, kubectl, cloud provider CLIs, Terraform and CloudFormation workflows, and managed Kubernetes services.
• Within Kubernetes tooling culture, it sits beside kubeadm, Cluster API, eksctl, and cloud-specific cluster provisioning tools.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops
• https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases
• https://github.com/kubernetes/kops
• https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/
• https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/welcome/releases/