arkade provides a portable marketplace for downloading your favourite devops CLIs and installing helm charts, with a single command.

You can also download CLIs like kubectl, kind, kubectx and helm faster than you can type "apt-get/brew update".

With over 40 helm charts and apps available for Kubernetes, gone are the days of contending with dozens of README files just to set up a development stack with the usual suspects like ingress-nginx, Postgres and cert-manager.

• arkade - The Open Source Kubernetes Marketplace
  • Should you try arkade?
  • Get arkade
  • Usage
    • Install a CLI tool
    • Create a Kubernetes cluster
    • Install an app
    • Uninstall an app
      • Reduce the repetition
      • Bye-bye values.yaml, hello flags
      • Override with --set
      • Get a self-hosted TLS registry with authentication
      • Get OpenFaaS with TLS
      • Get a public IP for a private cluster and your IngressController
      • Explore the apps
  • Community & contributing
    • Do you use this project? 👋
    • Tutorials & community blog posts
      • Video review from Rancher Labs
      • Watch a video walk-through by Alex Ellis
      • Featured tutorials
      • Community posts
    • Suggest a new app
    • Sponsored apps
    • How does arkade compare to helm?
    • Is arkade suitable for production use?
    • What is in scope for arkade get?
    • Automatic download of tools
    • Improving the code or fixing an issue
    • Developer workflow
      • Cloning
      • Adding your fork:
      • To verify changes:
      • Checkout a branch to start work
      • Push up your changes for a PR
      • Test other people's PRs
    • Join us on Slack
    • License

Here's what Ivan Velichko, SRE @ Booking.com has to say about arkade:

I was setting up a new dev environment yesterday. Kind, helm, kustomize, kubectl, all this stuff. My take is - arkade is highly underappreciated. I'd spend an hour in the past to install such tools. With arkade it was under ten minutes.

Greg runs Fullstack JS and is a JavaScript developer, he says:

This is real magic get #kubernetes up and going in a second; then launch #openfaas a free better than lambda solution that uses docker images.

@arghzero says:

for getting the basics installed, nothing beats arkade it can install commonly used cli tools like kubectl locally for you, as well as common k8s pkgs like ingress-nginx or portainer

@Yankexe says:

It's hard to use K8s without Arkade these days. My team at @lftechnology absolutely loves it.

From Michael Cade @ Kasten

I finally got around to installing Arkade, super simple! quicker to install this than the argocli standalone commands, but there are lots of handy little tools in there. also, the neat little part about arkade, not only does it make it easy to install a ton of different apps and CLIs you can also get the info on them as well pretty quickly.

# Note: you can also run without `sudo` and move the binary yourself
curl -sLS https://get.arkade.dev | sudo sh

arkade --help
ark --help  # a handy alias

# Windows users with Git Bash
curl -sLS https://get.arkade.dev | sh

Windows users: arkade requires bash to be available, therefore Windows users can install Git Bash.

An alias of ark is created at installation time, so you can also run ark install APP

Here's a few examples of apps you can install, for a complete list run: arkade install --help.

• arkade install - install an app
• arkade info - the post-install screen for an app
• arkade get - install a CLI tool such as kubectl or faas-cli
• arkade update - print instructions to update arkade itself

arkade downloads the correct version of a CLI for your OS and CPU.

With automatic detection of: Windows / MacOS / Linux / Intel / ARM.

arkade get APP

Note to contributors, run arkade get --output markdown to generate this list

This is a time saver compared to searching for download pages every time you need a tool.

Think of arkade get TOOL as a doing for CLIs, what arkade install does for helm.

Adding a new tool for download is as simple as editing tools.go.

If you have Docker installed, then you can install Kubernetes using KinD in a matter of moments:

arkade get kubectl
arkade get kind

kind create cluster

You can also download k3d k3s in the same way with arkade get k3d.

No need to worry about whether you're installing to Intel or ARM architecture, the correct values will be set for you automatically.

arkade install openfaas --gateways 2 --load-balancer false

Remember how awkward it was last time you installed the Kubernetes dashboard? And how you could never remember the command to get the token to log in?

arkade install kubernetes-dashboard

Forgot your token? arkade info kubernetes-dashboard

Prefer Portainer? Just run: arkade install portainer

Run arkade uninstall or arkade delete for more information on how to remove applications from a Kubernetes cluster.

Normally up to a dozen commands (including finding and downloading helm), now just one. No searching for the correct CRD to apply, no trying to install helm, no trying to find the correct helm repo to add:

arkade install cert-manager

Other common tools:

arkade install ingress-nginx

arkade install metrics-server

We use strongly typed Go CLI flags, so that you can run --help instead of trawling through countless Helm chart README files to find the correct --set combination for what you want.

arkade install ingress-nginx --help

Install ingress-nginx. This app can be installed with Host networking for
cases where an external LB is not available. please see the --host-mode
flag and the ingress-nginx docs for more info

Usage:
  arkade install ingress-nginx [flags]

Aliases:
  ingress-nginx, nginx-ingress

Examples:
  arkade install ingress-nginx --namespace default

Flags:
  -h, --help               help for ingress-nginx
      --host-mode          If we should install ingress-nginx in host mode.
  -n, --namespace string   The namespace used for installation (default "default")
      --update-repo        Update the helm repo (default true)

You can also set helm overrides, for apps which use helm via --set

ark install openfaas --set faasIdler.dryRun=false

After installation, an info message will be printed with help for usage, you can get back to this at any time via:

arkade info <NAME>

Here's how you can get a self-hosted Docker registry with TLS and authentication in just 5 commands on an empty cluster:

arkade install ingress-nginx
arkade install cert-manager
arkade install docker-registry
arkade install docker-registry-ingress \
  --email [email protected] \
  --domain reg.example.com

The same for OpenFaaS would look like this:

arkade install ingress-nginx
arkade install cert-manager
arkade install openfaas
arkade install openfaas-ingress \
  --email [email protected] \
  --domain reg.example.com

And if you're running on a private cloud, on-premises or on your laptop, you can simply add the inlets-operator using inlets PRO to get a secure TCP tunnel and a public IP address.

arkade install inlets-operator \
  --access-token $HOME/digitalocean-token \
  --region lon1 \
  --license $(cat $HOME/license.txt)

You can view the various apps available with arkade install / --help, more are available when you run the command yourself.

arkade install --help
ark --help

Examples:
  arkade install
  arkade install openfaas --helm3 --gateways=2
  arkade install inlets-operator --token-file $HOME/do-token

Apps:

There are 47 apps that you can install on your cluster.

Note to contributors, run arkade install --print-table to generate this list

Alex created this project for developers just like yourself. If you use arkade, become a sponsor so that he can continue to grow and improve it for your future use.

• Tool of the Day with Adrian from Rancher Labs

• arkade by example — Kubernetes apps, the easy way 😎 - Alex Ellis
• Walk-through — install Kubernetes to your Raspberry Pi in 15 minutes
• Get a TLS-enabled Docker registry in 5 minutes - Alex Ellis
• Get TLS for OpenFaaS the easy way with arkade - Alex Ellis

• A bit of Istio before tea-time - Alex Ellis
• Kubernetes: Automatic Let's Encrypt Certificates for Services with arkade
• Introducing Arkade - The Kubernetes app installer - Alistair Hey
• Portainer for kubernetes in less than 60 seconds!! - by Saiyam Pathak
• Video walk-through with DJ Adams - Pi & Kubernetes with k3s, k3sup, arkade and OpenFaaS
• Coffee chat: Easy way to install Kubernetes Apps - arkade (ark) by Sachin Jha
• Arkade & OpenFaaS: serverless on the spot by Blaise Pabon

To suggest a new app, please check past issues and raise an issue for it. Think also whether your app suggestion would be a good candidate for a Sponsored App.

You can now propose your project or product as a Sponsored App. Sponsored Apps work just like any other app that we've curated, however they will have a note next to them in the app description (sponsored) and a link to your chosen site upon installation. An app sponsorship can be purchased for a minimum of 12 months and includes free development of the Sponsored App, with ongoing support via GitHub for the Sponsored App for the duration only. Ongoing support will be limited to a set amount of hours per month.

When your sponsorship expires the Sponsored App will be removed from arkade, and the ongoing support will cease. A Sponsored App can be renewed 60 days prior to expiration subject to a separate agreement and payment.

Example:

arkade VENDOR install PRODUCT
arkade acmeco install dashboard

Current sponsored apps include Venafi for Machine Identity:

arkade venafi install --help
arkade venafi info --help

Contact us to find out how you can have your Sponsored App added to arkade.

In the same way that brew uses git and Makefiles to compile applications for your Mac, arkade uses upstream helm charts and kubectl to install applications to your Kubernetes cluster. arkade exposes strongly-typed flags for the various popular options for helm charts, and enables easier discovery through arkade install --help and arkade install APP --help.

If you consider helm suitable, and kubectl then yes, arkade by definition uses those tools and the upstream artifacts of OSS projects.

Do you want to run arkade in a CI or CD pipeline? Go ahead.

Generally speaking, tools that are used with the various arkade apps or with Kubernetes are in scope. If you want to propose a tool, raise a GitHub issue.

What about package management? arkade get provides a faster alternative to package managers like apt and brew, you're free to use either or both at the same time.

When required, tools, CLIs, and the helm binaries are downloaded and extracted to $HOME/.arkade.

If installing a tool which uses helm3, arkade will check for a cached version and use that, otherwise it will download it on demand.

Did you accidentally run arkade as root? Running as root is not required, and will mean your KUBECONFIG environment variable will be ignored. You can revert this using the notes on release 0.1.18.

Before contributing code, please see the CONTRIBUTING guide. Note that arkade uses the same guide as inlets.dev.

Both Issues and PRs have their own templates. Please fill out the whole template.

All commits must be signed-off as part of the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

Here's the basics for contributing:

mkdir $GOPATH/go/src/github.com/alexellis
git clone https://github.com/alexellis/arkade
cd arkade

go build

git remote add fork https://github.com/NAME/arkade

gofmt -w -s ./pkg
gofmt -w -s ./cmd
go test ./...

git checkout -b fork/add-NAME-of-APP

git config user.name "Full name"
git config user.email "[email protected]"

git commit -s

git push fork add-NAME-of-APP

You can also check out other people's PRs and test them:

arkade get gh
gh auth

$ gh pr list

Showing 10 of 10 open pull requests in alexellis/arkade

#477  Add comma escaping for --set flag        yankeexe:fix-openfaas-helm-set
#438  Added support to install kube-ps1        andreppires:master

gh checkout 477

go build

# Try the new version of arkade
./arkade

Join #contributors at slack.openfaas.io

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