Installing Skaffold

To keep Skaffold up to date, update checks are made to Google servers to see if a new version of Skaffold is available.

You can turn this update check off by following these instructions.

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The latest stable binary can be found here:

Simply download it and add it to your PATH. Or, copy+paste this command in your terminal:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64 && \
sudo install skaffold /usr/local/bin/

We also release a bleeding edge build, built from the latest commit:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-linux-amd64 && \
sudo install skaffold /usr/local/bin/

The latest stable binary can be found here:

Simply download it and add it to your PATH. Or, copy+paste this command in your terminal:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/releases/latest/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && \
sudo install skaffold /usr/local/bin/

We also release a bleeding edge build, built from the latest commit:

curl -Lo skaffold https://storage.googleapis.com/skaffold/builds/latest/skaffold-darwin-amd64 && \
sudo install skaffold /usr/local/bin/

Skaffold is also kept up to date on a few central package managers:

brew install skaffold

sudo port install skaffold

The latest stable release binary can be found here:

Simply download it and place it in your PATH as skaffold.exe.

We also release a bleeding edge build, built from the latest commit:

choco install -y skaffold

For the latest stable release, you can use:

docker run gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:latest skaffold <command>

For the latest bleeding edge build:

docker run gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold:edge skaffold <command>

If you have the Google Cloud SDK installed on your machine, you can quickly install Skaffold as a bundled component.

Make sure your gcloud installation and the components are up to date:

gcloud components update

Then, install Skaffold:

gcloud components install skaffold