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brew

Installer k6 avec Homebrew, chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, zypper, scoop, winget

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de k6 pour les workflows d'agents IA.

sécurité des agents

Réponse sur la sécurité des agents

k6 runs load tests that can hit local or remote systems with scripted traffic.

Accès aux identifiants

Reads environment variables, test scripts, and optional cloud tokens.

Modification distante

Can generate traffic against production endpoints or upload cloud results.

Risque de publication ou d'artéfact

Can publish test results or stress external systems.

Contrôle recommandé

Gate cloud uploads, production targets, and secret-backed test runs.

Conseils d'utilisation par les agents

Allow local dry tests; require approval for remote load, cloud output, and tokens.

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install k6

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install k6

MacPorts ports tree · net/k6/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#k6

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/k6/k6/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install k6

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · k6 · Source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Chocolateyvérifié · 92%
choco install k6

Chocolatey community package catalog · k6 · Source: community.chocolatey.org

Scoopvérifié · 92%
scoop install main/k6

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/k6.json · Source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managervérifié · 92%
winget install --id GrafanaLabs.k6 -e

Windows Package Manager source index · GrafanaLabs.k6 · Source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

historique

Historique du projet et usages

Grafana k6 is an open source load and performance testing tool written in Go with test scripts authored in JavaScript or TypeScript, designed for developer-friendly reliability testing from local runs through cloud and CI workflows.

Historique du projet

k6 began as an open source load-testing tool from Load Impact, with public releases visible from 2017. It combined a Go runtime with JavaScript test scripts, aiming to make load tests feel like code that developers could keep with application projects.

Load Impact rebranded around k6 in 2020, including the GitHub repository move from `loadimpact/k6` to `k6io/k6`. Grafana Labs acquired the Stockholm-based k6 company in June 2021 and folded the project into Grafana's observability stack.

In 2025, Grafana announced k6 1.0 as a general-availability milestone with Semantic Versioning, stability guarantees, TypeScript support, native extensibility, and a stronger long-term support story.

Historique d'adoption

k6 adoption grew from teams wanting scripted, automatable load testing without older GUI-heavy workflows. Its JavaScript API, CLI-first design, thresholds, CI integrations, and Grafana/Prometheus-friendly metrics made it attractive to developers, SREs, QA engineers, and platform teams.

After the Grafana acquisition, k6 became part of a broader observability loop: generate load with k6, observe behavior in Grafana-backed systems, and use cloud or Kubernetes execution when local tests are not enough.

Modes d'utilisation

Users write test scenarios in JavaScript or TypeScript and run them with `k6 run`, often checking thresholds in CI. More advanced setups send metrics to observability backends, run distributed tests, use extensions, or execute tests through Grafana Cloud k6.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

k6 is significant because it made load testing feel like a normal developer CLI dependency: install a binary, commit scripts, run in CI, and export metrics. Its Go-plus-JavaScript architecture also makes it an interesting packaging target: a single executable with an embedded scripting engine and extension ecosystem.

Chronologie

  • 2017: k6 public releases were published under the Load Impact era.
  • 2020: Load Impact rebranded to k6 and moved the GitHub repository to the k6 organization.
  • 2021: Grafana Labs acquired k6 on June 17.
  • 2025: Grafana announced k6 1.0 with stability guarantees and Semantic Versioning.

Related projects

  • k6 is related to Grafana, Grafana Cloud k6, Prometheus-style metrics workflows, xk6 extensions, the k6 Kubernetes operator, and older load-testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, and Locust.

posture de sécurité

Aucune couverture d'outil protégé trouvée pour le moment

Aucun manifest local de gestion des secrets correspondant n'a été trouvé pour k6. Les métadonnées de paquet Nucleus restent publiées ici afin que la couverture future dispose d'une URL stable.

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
  • Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

macOS
~/Library/Application Support/k6/config.json
Unix
~/.config/k6/config.json

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

macOS
~/Library/Application Support/k6/config.json
Unix
~/.config/k6/config.json

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
k6cliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire2.1.0
gestionnaire mis à jour2026-06-30
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev2.1.0

https://github.com/grafana/k6

  • OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:k6
Version2.1.0
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/k6
Page d'accueilhttps://k6.io
Dépôthttps://github.com/grafana/k6
Docs amonthttps://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-later
Archive sourcehttps://github.com/grafana/k6/archive/refs/tags/v2.1.0.tar.gz
Dernière mise à jour2026-06-30T09:51:09Z
Pulseupdated
Dépendances de compilationgo
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namek6
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

k6

nix profile install nixpkgs#k6
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/k6/k6/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
zypper95%

k6 2.0.0-1.1

Modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript

https://github.com/grafana/k6

sudo zypper install k6
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: k6
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: k6 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

k6-bash-completion 2.0.0-1.1

Bash Completion for k6

https://github.com/grafana/k6

sudo zypper install k6-bash-completion
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: k6
  • 2 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: k6-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

k6-fish-completion 2.0.0-1.1

Fish Completion for k6

https://github.com/grafana/k6

sudo zypper install k6-fish-completion
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: k6
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: k6-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

k6-zsh-completion 2.0.0-1.1

Zsh Completion for k6

https://github.com/grafana/k6

sudo zypper install k6-zsh-completion
  • License: AGPL-3.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: k6
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: k6-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

k6

sudo port install k6
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: net/k6/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

k6

choco install k6
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: k6 from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','jetbrains-rider'
Scoop95%

main/k6

scoop install main/k6
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/k6.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
winget95%

GrafanaLabs.k6

winget install --id GrafanaLabs.k6 -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : K6
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: GrafanaLabs.k6 from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/k6.yml

Sources utilisées

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated agent safety answer
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment