Kubectl installer task

Azure DevOps Services

This task can be used for installing a specific version of kubectl binary on agents.

YAML snippet

# Kubectl tool installer
# Install Kubectl on agent machine
- task: KubectlInstaller@0
  inputs:
    #kubectlVersion: 'latest' # Optional

Task inputs

Parameters	Description
kubectlVersion Kubectl version spec	(Optional) The version of kubectl to be installed on the agent. Acceptable values are latest or any semantic version string like 1.15.0 Default value: latest

The following YAML example showcases the installation of latest version of kubectl binary on the agent -

- task: KubectlInstaller@0
  displayName: Kubectl installer
  inputs: 
    kubectlVersion: latest

The following YAML example demonstrates the use of an explicit version string rather than installing the latest version available at the time of task execution -

- task: KubectlInstaller@0
  displayName: Kubectl installer
  inputs: 
    kubectlVersion: 1.15.0

Open source

This task is open source on GitHub. Feedback and contributions are welcome.