Installing kops to provision a Kubernetes cluster

In this recipe, we will get the Kubernetes Operations tool, kops, and Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl, installed in order to provision and manage Kubernetes clusters.

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Download and install the Kubernetes Operations tool, kops:

$ curl -LO https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64
$ chmod +x kops-linux-amd64 && sudo mv kops-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kops

2. Run the following command to make sure kops is installed and confirm that the version is 1.15.0 or later:

$ kops version

3. Download and install the Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl:

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
$ chmod +x ./kubectl && sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

4. Verify its version and make sure kubectl is installed:

$ kubectl version --short

To be able to perform the following recipes, the kubectl version should be v1.15 or later.