Kubectl is a command-line tool that provides an interface to control the cluster and its components. It can be used to execute commands in one or more containers, submit new workloads for scheduling on clusters, get logs from containers running in a cluster, and so on.
The Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) is built on top of this library and provides easy access to all these features through commands similar to ssh or SCP.
This tutorial will show you how to update Kubectl command-line tools on Linux systems using the following steps:
Check Version
The check the current version kubectl run the following command.
kubectl version --output yamlThe output is shown below.
Download and Install
To download the latest version of Kuberctl and install it on a Ubuntu Linux system, I will use the following two commands.
curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectlBelow you can see that I have the latest version installed.
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