# Installer labctl avec Homebrew, Nix

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:labctl
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install labctl
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#labctl
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:labctl
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/labctl>
- **Version:** 0.1.97
- **Résumé source:** CLI tool for interacting with iximiuz labs and playgrounds
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://labs.iximiuz.com/playgrounds>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/iximiuz/labctl>
- **Docs amont:** <https://github.com/iximiuz/labctl#readme>
- **Licence:** Apache-2.0
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/iximiuz/labctl/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.97.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-06T10:07:37Z
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## exécutables

- labctl (cli)
- labctl (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- go

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 0.1.97
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-07-06
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/iximiuz/labctl
- dernière version détectée: v0.1.97 (à jour)
## Historique du projet et usages

labctl is the command-line client for iximiuz Labs, a hands-on learning platform for Linux, containers, Kubernetes, networking, and DevOps playgrounds. It starts, lists, stops, destroys, and connects to remote playground environments from a local terminal.

Its history is tightly coupled to iximiuz Labs rather than to a broad standalone ecosystem, so the package history is best understood as the CLI surface of a hosted microVM playground service.

### Historique du projet

The labctl repository documents the tool as a way to start remote microVM playgrounds from the command line. The README lists Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, networking, and other DevOps playground types and describes those environments as ephemeral and disposable.

As the iximiuz Labs playground model evolved, labctl accumulated commands for browser opening, SSH access, IDE integration, public web terminals, HTTP exposure, port forwarding, and lifecycle management.

### Historique d'adoption

Adoption is mostly iximiuz Labs users who prefer terminal access over a browser-only workflow. The README documents both the iximiuz install script and Homebrew installation on macOS and Linux, putting labctl into ordinary package-manager workflows despite its service-specific nature.

The public release page shows frequent 0.1.x releases, including additions for playground status, wait behavior, regions, IDE integration, and readiness handling.

### Modes d'utilisation

A typical workflow is `labctl auth login`, followed by `labctl playground start docker`, `labctl playground start k3s --open`, or `labctl ssh <playground-id>`. The CLI can also expose shell sessions, forward ports, open local IDEs, and destroy playgrounds when finished.

Credentials and SSH material are stored under the iximiuz labctl configuration and SSH paths documented in the package curation, which makes the Homebrew package both a CLI and a local session manager for remote training machines.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

labctl is a useful example of a modern package-manager CLI whose main value is not local computation but authenticated orchestration of disposable remote environments. It turns a hosted learning product into scriptable terminal infrastructure.

For DevOps learners and authors, that means reproducible playgrounds can be launched, connected to, exposed, and torn down with commands rather than browser clicks.

### Chronologie

- 2020s: iximiuz Labs popularized hands-on Linux, container, Kubernetes, and networking playgrounds.
- 2020s: labctl became the command-line access layer for starting and connecting to those playgrounds.
- 2025: The Playgrounds 2.0 write-up described labctl as an SSH access path for microVM-based playgrounds.
- 2026: v0.1.x releases added region, readiness, IDE, and playground lifecycle improvements.

### Related projects

- iximiuz Labs playgrounds are the hosted service labctl controls.
- Firecracker is relevant to the platform architecture because iximiuz Labs describes its playground machines as microVMs.
- VS Code Remote SSH, Cursor, Windsurf, and SSH tooling are adjacent user-facing integrations documented by labctl.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/iximiuz/labctl>
- <https://github.com/iximiuz/labctl/releases>
- <https://labs.iximiuz.com/playgrounds>
- <https://newsletter.iximiuz.com/posts/iximiuz-labs-playgrounds-2-0-dive-in>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iximiuz/labctl/main/README.md>


## Notes de sécurité

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



## 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

- Unix: ~/.iximiuz/labctl/config.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.iximiuz/labctl/config.yaml, ~/.ssh/iximiuz_labs_user
## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** labctl
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - labctl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/la/labctl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

- [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [juju](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/juju/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, devops, kubernetes.
- [devspace](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/devspace/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, devops, docker, kubernetes.
- [colima](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/colima/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, docker, kubernetes.
- [container-canary](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/container-canary/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, docker, kubernetes.
- [dcp](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/dcp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, docker, kubernetes.
- [havener](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/havener/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, devops, kubernetes.
- [helm](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/helm/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, devops, kubernetes.
- [helmfile](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/helmfile/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, devops, kubernetes.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/labctl.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/labctl.yml)


## Sources

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