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K8s on Macbook Air

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Getting Kubectl and Helm3 on M1 Macbook Air

I’ve got a kubernetes cluster running in my closet (say that 10x fast) and prefer to do most of my work on it. Kubectl and Helm available on this device save me from needing to SSH into the cluster at all times.

Unfortunately… ‘brew install kubectl’ and ‘brew install helm3’ didn’t want to play nice with my shiny new laptop…

According to this github issue, all we need to do is add ‘arm64’ as a supported platform, then build from source

Clone the Kubernetes repo

cd ~/go/src
git clone git@github.com:kubernetes/kubernetes.git
cd k8s.io/kubernetes

Edit the file

sed -i '' -e 's/KUBE_SUPPORTED_CLIENT_PLATFORMS=(/KUBE_SUPPORTED_CLIENT_PLATFORMS=(\n  darwin\/arm64/' ./hack/lib/golang.sh

Build

make

”Install” the binary

sudo mv ./_output/bin/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl && sudo chown root: /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Clone the Helm3 Repo

cd ~/go/src
git clone https://github.com/helm/helm.git
cd helm

Build

make

”Install” the binary

sudo mv ./bin/helm /usr/local/bin/helm && sudo chown root: /usr/local/bin/helm