K
Q

Not able to install kubectl on Google Compute Engine (GCE)?

7/15/2015

I'm trying to spin up a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster on GCE. When I run

gcloud components update kubectl

on a Windows machine I get

ERROR: (gcloud.components.update) The following components are unknown [kubectl]

-- Gaurav Rawat
google-compute-engine
kubernetes

Similar Questions

kubernetes installation on coreOS
gcloud container VMs logging strategy
Time based container scheduling on Kubernetes?
Resize instance types on Container Engine cluster

2 Answers

9/24/2016

Things have changed a little (don't they always).

This just worked for me..

gcloud components install kubectl
-- djabraham
Source: StackOverflow
7/15/2015

Update (May 2016): As of late March 2016, gcloud will now install kubectl for windows.

gcloud won't currently install kubectl on windows (hence the error). You can download a recent kubectl binary directly from GCS instead (gsutil cp gs://kubernetes-release/release/v1.0.0/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe kubectl.exe).

Since kubectl is much less heavily tested on windows than on Mac/Linux, you may need to pass the --kubeconfig argument if it isn't finding your configuration file in the default location (gcloud container clusters get-credentials NAME should write to .kube/config in your home directory and kubectl should read from the same file).

-- Robert Bailey
Source: StackOverflow