Distributed Services with Go

Install kubectl

The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl,^[54] is used to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. You’ll use kubectl to inspect and manage your service’s cluster resources and view logs. Try to use kubectl for one-off operations. For operations you run again and again, like deploying or upgrading a service, you’ll use the Helm package manager or an operator, which we’ll take a look at later in this chapter.

To install kubectl, run the following:

$ curl -LO \
https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/\
v1.18.0/bin/$(uname)/amd64/kubectl
$ chmod +x ./kubectl
$ mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

We need a Kubernetes cluster and its API for kubectl to call and do anything. In the next section, we’ll ...