Installation

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We have multiple ways to install Kompose. Our preferred (and most up-to-date) method is downloading the binary from the latest GitHub release.

GitHub release

Kompose is released via GitHub, you can see all current releases on the GitHub release page.

This is the recommended way of installing Kompose.

Linux and macOS:

# Linux
curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.38.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o kompose

# Linux ARM64
curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.38.0/kompose-linux-arm64 -o kompose

# macOS
curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.38.0/kompose-darwin-amd64 -o kompose

# macOS ARM64
curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.38.0/kompose-darwin-arm64 -o kompose

chmod +x kompose
sudo mv ./kompose /usr/local/bin/kompose

Windows:

Download from GitHub and add the binary to your PATH.

Go

Installing using go install pulls from the main branch with the latest development changes.

go install github.com/kubernetes/kompose@latest

CentOS

Kompose is in EPEL (Available in EPEL 7 package repository) CentOS repository. If you don't have EPEL repository already installed and enabled you can do it by running sudo yum install epel-release

If you have EPEL enabled in your system, you can install Kompose like any other package.

sudo yum -y install kompose

macOS

On macOS, you can install the latest release via Homebrew or MacPorts.

brew install kompose

Windows

Kompose can be installed via Chocolatey

choco install kubernetes-kompose

or using winget

winget install Kubernetes.kompose

Docker

You can build an image from the official repo for Docker or Podman:

docker build -t kompose https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose.git\#main

To run the built image against the current directory, run the following command:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/opt -w /opt kompose kompose convert