kube-score mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• kube-score

Projektgeschichte

The kube-score repository was created on 2018-09-16, and its first beta release, v0.1.0-beta1, was published on 2018-09-26. The README presents it as static code analysis for Kubernetes object definitions, with checks for resources, network policy coverage, pod disruption budgets, probes, security contexts, and stable APIs.

Unlike cluster-side policy systems, kube-score kept a developer-tool shape: a single CLI that reads manifests, prints human or machine-readable findings, and exits with a CI-friendly status code.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project documents several distribution paths: GitHub release binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows, a Docker image, Homebrew, and Krew as the kubectl score plugin. Its website also hosts an online demo backed by the kube-score/web repository, giving users a low-friction way to try the checks without installing the CLI.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage pipes rendered Kubernetes resources into kube-score, for example from helm template or kustomize build. The tool can also read static YAML files or resources exported from a live cluster, then produce recommendations in human, JSON, CI, or SARIF-oriented formats.

Annotations such as kube-score/ignore and kube-score/enable let users suppress or opt into checks on individual objects, which keeps the linter usable in repositories where not every workload has the same operational constraints.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

kube-score matters in package-manager culture because it is a small, composable quality gate for Kubernetes manifests. It turns a broad operational checklist into a command that can live in a Makefile, pre-commit hook, GitHub Action, or CI job.

It also illustrates a common Kubernetes packaging pattern: one Go binary, release artifacts for multiple platforms, a Docker image for containerized CI, Homebrew for local developer machines, and Krew for kubectl-plugin users.

Zeitleiste

• 2018-09-16: GitHub repository created.
• 2018-09-26: First GitHub release, v0.1.0-beta1, published.
• 2018-10-08: v0.1.0 published.
• 2025-04-28: GitHub release v1.20.0 published.

Related projects

• Helm and Kustomize are common input producers for kube-score.
• Krew distributes kube-score as a kubectl plugin named score.
• kube-score/web provides the browser demo linked from the README.
• KubeLinter occupies a related manifest-linting space with a stronger production-readiness and security-check branding.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/zegl/kube-score
• https://api.github.com/repos/zegl/kube-score/releases
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kube-score
• https://github.com/kube-score/web
• https://github.com/zegl/kube-score
• https://kube-score.com/