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CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium. Version 0.19.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install cilium-cli

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add cilium-cli

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · cilium-cli · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#cilium-cli

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ci/cilium-cli/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S cilium-cli

Arch Linux sync databases · cilium-cli · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install cilium-cli

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · cilium-cli · source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Cilium.CiliumCLI -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Cilium.CiliumCLI · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

Commands and aliases

  • cilium

history

Project history and usage

Cilium CLI is the official command-line installer, manager, and troubleshooting tool for Kubernetes clusters running Cilium, the eBPF-based networking, security, and observability platform.

Project history

The cilium/cilium-cli repository was created in December 2020. Its early public releases began with v0.1 in February 2021, aligning with the project's move toward a dedicated CLI for cluster installation, status checks, Hubble enablement, connectivity testing, ClusterMesh, and related operations.

The CLI is maintained as a separate Go repository from the main Cilium datapath and control-plane repository, but its README and Cilium documentation present it as the standard quick-install path for Cilium users.

Adoption history

Cilium's official quick-install documentation instructs users to install the Cilium CLI before installing Cilium into a Kubernetes cluster. That placement makes the CLI a front door for new Cilium deployments rather than only an optional helper.

The input records packages across Homebrew, Alpine, Nix, Arch, winget, and zypper. Homebrew's formula API currently reports more than one thousand 30-day install-on-request events, which is strong package-manager adoption for a specialized Kubernetes networking CLI.

How it is used

Common documented commands include cilium install, cilium status, cilium hubble enable, cilium connectivity test, cilium connectivity perf, and ClusterMesh setup. The README also lists supported environments such as minikube, kind, EKS, GKE, AKS BYOCNI, k3s, and self-managed clusters.

Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, cilium-cli is a modern cloud-native operations binary with frequent releases, official multi-OS binary artifacts, and compatibility tracking against Cilium versions. It is also a good example of package managers distributing the operational CLI separately from the Kubernetes workloads it manages.

Timeline

  • 2020-12-22: cilium/cilium-cli repository created.
  • 2021-02-15: v0.1 release published.
  • 2021: README documents installation, status, Hubble, connectivity tests, performance tests, and ClusterMesh capabilities.
  • 2026-06-25: v0.19.5 release published.
  • 2026: Homebrew packages cilium-cli 0.19.5 and the input records broad Linux/macOS/Windows package-manager coverage.

Related projects

  • Cilium is the Kubernetes networking, security, and observability system managed by the CLI.
  • Hubble is the observability component enabled and tested through cilium hubble and cilium connectivity commands.
  • ClusterMesh is a Cilium multi-cluster feature with CLI setup flows documented in the README.

security posture

Risk level: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

  • infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

  • text:kubernetes,cluster

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
ciliumcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.19.5
manager updated2026-06-25
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.19.5

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:cilium-cli
Version0.19.5
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cilium-cli
Homepagehttps://cilium.io
Repositoryhttps://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli
Upstream docshttps://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/gettingstarted/k8s-install-default
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/archive/refs/tags/v0.19.5.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-25T09:54:50Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

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

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

cilium-cli

nix profile install nixpkgs#cilium-cli
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ci/cilium-cli/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

cilium-cli 0.19.2-r2

CLI to install, manage and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

https://cilium.io/

sudo apk add cilium-cli
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cilium-cli-bash-completion 0.19.2-r2

Bash completions for cilium-cli

https://cilium.io/

sudo apk add cilium-cli-bash-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cilium-cli-fish-completion 0.19.2-r2

Fish completions for cilium-cli

https://cilium.io/

sudo apk add cilium-cli-fish-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

cilium-cli-zsh-completion 0.19.2-r2

Zsh completions for cilium-cli

https://cilium.io/

sudo apk add cilium-cli-zsh-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
pacman95%

cilium-cli 0.19.4-1

install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli

sudo pacman -S cilium-cli
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: cilium-cli from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

cilium-cli 0.19.4-1.1

CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli

sudo zypper install cilium-cli
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

cilium-cli-bash-completion 0.19.4-1.1

Bash Completion for cilium-cli

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli

sudo zypper install cilium-cli-bash-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

cilium-cli-fish-completion 0.19.4-1.1

Fish Completion for cilium-cli

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli

sudo zypper install cilium-cli-fish-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

cilium-cli-zsh-completion 0.19.4-1.1

Zsh Completion for cilium-cli

https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli

sudo zypper install cilium-cli-zsh-completion
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: System/Shells
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: cilium-cli
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
winget95%

Cilium.CiliumCLI

winget install --id Cilium.CiliumCLI -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cilium Cli
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Cilium.CiliumCLI from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • hubbleShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, kubernetes, networking.
  • kubefwdShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, kubernetes, networking.
  • cni-pluginsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, kubernetes, networking.
  • aerleonShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking.
  • ahcpdShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking.
  • airshareShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

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