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Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• kube-score

Historique du projet

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.

Historique d'adoption

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.

Modes d'utilisation

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.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

Chronologie

• 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.

Sources

• 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/