Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install kwok

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#kwok

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/kw/kwok/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Windows

Windows Package Managerverifiziert · 92%

winget install --id Kubernetes.kwok -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Kubernetes.kwok · Quelle: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Nodes and Clusters

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

kwok
kwokctl

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

KWOK, short for Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet, is a Kubernetes SIG project for simulating nodes, pods, and cluster behavior without running kubelets on real machines. The package ships the kwok simulator and kwokctl cluster-management CLI.

Projektgeschichte

KWOK was introduced publicly on the Kubernetes blog on 2023-03-01 by contributors from DaoCloud and Apple. The announcement framed it as a toolkit for creating clusters with thousands of simulated nodes in seconds, aimed at controller development, scale testing, and Kubernetes learning without large infrastructure bills.

The project lives under kubernetes-sigs, which makes it part of the Kubernetes community's SIG-governed tooling rather than a vendor-only simulator. Its release process uses Kubernetes-style release issues, staging images, GitHub releases, and registry.k8s.io promotion.

Adoptionsgeschichte

KWOK's adoption is strongest in test and simulation workflows. The official site emphasizes compatibility with Kubernetes API clients such as kubectl and Helm, and the docs show fake nodes and pods represented as ordinary API objects that kwok keeps in plausible states.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users install kwok to maintain fake node and pod status, and kwokctl to create or delete local simulated clusters. Package-manager users care about having both binaries available for fast CI jobs, controller load tests, scheduler experiments, and demos that need Kubernetes API behavior without worker-node cost.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

KWOK is interesting because it packages a fake kubelet world as normal CLI tooling. It turns what used to require heavyweight test clusters or bespoke mocks into a reproducible binary install, making it a neat inhabitant of the Kubernetes testing toolbox.

Zeitleiste

2022-09-27: The v0.0.1 release issue was opened in the kubernetes-sigs/kwok repository.
2023-03-01: The Kubernetes blog published the public KWOK introduction.
2023-08-15: The node and pod management guide was updated with examples for keeping fake nodes ready and running fake pods.

Related projects

KWOK relates to Kubernetes, kubelet, kubemark, controller testing, scheduler testing, kubectl, Helm, and registry.k8s.io image promotion workflows.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: orange

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Risikoklassifikator

orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure

Warum

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signale

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Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`kwok`	cli	globales Executable
`kwokctl`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version0.8.0

Manager aktualisiert2026-06-23

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv0.8.0

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:kwok
Version	0.8.0
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kwok
Homepage	https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io
Repository	https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io/docs
Lizenz	Apache-2.0
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.0.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-06-23T10:35:17Z
Pulse	updated
Build-Abhängigkeiten	go
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	kwok
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

kwok

nix profile install nixpkgs#kwok

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Kwok

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/kw/kwok/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

Kubernetes.kwok

winget install --id Kubernetes.kwok -e

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Kwok

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.kwok from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

winget92%

Kubernetes.kwokctl

winget install --id Kubernetes.kwokctl -e

installed executable or alias match
Abgeglichen nach: Kwokctl

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.kwokctl from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/kwok.yml

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