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Install Kustomize	Install Kustomize	2022-02-27	10	Installing Kustomize

Kustomize can be installed in a variety of ways.

Binaries

Binaries are available for Linux, MacOS and Windows, across a variety of architectures.

You can see the full list of releases here on the Github releases page.

Quick install

Get the latest build of Kustomize for your platform.

curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/hack/install_kustomize.sh"  | bash

You can also pass optional version and target_dir arguments to the script:

curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/hack/install_kustomize.sh" 4.4.1 $HOME/bin  | bash

❗This script doesn’t work for ARM architecture. If you want to install ARM binaries, please refer to the releases page.

Packages

Kustomize is also available in some package repositories.

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install kustomize

Arch

pacman -S kustomize

Mac

Homebrew:

brew install kustomize

MacPorts:

sudo port install kustomize

Windows

Chocolatey

choco install kustomize

Docker

Docker images for kustomize are published on the GCR Container Registry.

docker run k8s.gcr.io/kustomize/kustomize:v4.5.1 version

go get

Requires Go to be installed.

GOBIN=$(pwd)/ GO111MODULE=on go get sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v3

Source

Clone the kustomize Github repo and build using go.

# Need go 1.13 or higher
unset GOPATH
# see https://golang.org/doc/go1.13#modules
unset GO111MODULES

# clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:kubernetes-sigs/kustomize.git
# get into the repo root
cd kustomize

# Optionally checkout a particular tag if you don't
# want to build at head
git checkout kustomize/v3.2.3

# build the binary
(cd kustomize; go install .)

# run it
~/go/bin/kustomize version