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Installing the Client Tools
In this lab you will install the command line utilities required to complete this tutorial: step, and kubectl.
Install CFSSL
The step command line utility will be used to provision a PKI Infrastructure and generate TLS certificates.
Download and install step:
OS X
For Intel chips:
curl -L https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.18.0/step_darwin_0.18.0_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv step_0.18.0/bin/step /usr/local/bin/
For Apple Silicon:
curl -L https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.18.0/step_darwin_0.18.0_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv step_0.18.0/bin/step /usr/local/bin/
Or, if you'd like to use Homebrew:
brew install step
Linux
curl -L https://dl.step.sm/gh-release/cli/gh-release-header/v0.18.0/step_linux_0.18.0_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv step_0.18.0/bin/step /usr/local/bin/
Verification
Verify step version 0.18.0 or higher is installed:
step version
output
Smallstep CLI/0.18.0 (linux/amd64)
Release Date: 2021-11-17 21:15 UTC
Install kubectl
The kubectl command line utility is used to interact with the Kubernetes API Server. Download and install kubectl from the official release binaries:
OS X
curl -o kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.21.0/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x kubectl
sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/
Linux
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.21.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x kubectl
sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/
Verification
Verify kubectl version 1.21.0 or higher is installed:
kubectl version --client
output
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.0", GitCommit:"cb303e613a121a29364f75cc67d3d580833a7479", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-04-08T16:31:21Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.1", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}