Installing the Testkube CLI

The Testkube CLI allows you to both manage your Testkube installation and interact with your Testkube resources, such as running creating Test Workflows, starting test executions, managing triggers, etc - see CLI Commands Reference for all commands.

Install the CLI as follows:

MacOS

Run the following command to install the Testkube CLI with brew on MacOS:

brew install testkube

Windows

Run the following commands to install the Testkube CLI with Chocolatey on Windows.

choco source add --name=kubeshop_repo --source=https://chocolatey.kubeshop.io/chocolatey
choco install testkube -y

Ubuntu

Run the following commands to install the Testkube CLI on Ubuntu:

wget -qO - https://repo.testkube.io/key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repo.testkube.io/linux linux main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y testkube

Script

Run the following command to install the Testkube CLI with curl:

curl -sSLf https://get.testkube.io | sh

Manual Download

1. Download the binary for the version and platform of your choice here.
2. Unpack it. For example, in Linux use tar -zxvf testkube_1.5.1_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz.
3. Move it to a location in the PATH. For example:

mv  testkube_1.5.1_Linux_x86_64/kubectl-testkube /usr/local/bin/kubectl-testkube

For Windows, you will need to unpack the binary and add it to the %PATH% as well.

Validating the Testkube CLI

You can validate the CLI and server their version as follows:

➜  ~ testkube version
Context: cloud (2.1.3)   Namespace: testkube   Org: Testkube   Env: ole-kind
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   ██    █████   ███████    ██    █████   ██    ██ ██████  █████
   ██    ██           ██    ██    ██  ██  ██    ██ ██   ██ ██
   ██    ███████ ███████    ██    ██   ██  ██████  ██████  ███████
                                           /tɛst kjub/ by Kubeshop


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