Complaint about Debian packages (kubectl)

[naren4897]

Why there is no option to download .deb packages for all the elements.
and I'm not able to find doc to build the .deb packages from our local machine to install.

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[stmcginnis]

Hi @naren4897. Packaging such as .deb and .rpm are not handled by the community. Instructions for using apt are provided here as a convenience, but there are a lot of different types of packages and ways to use them that are outside the scope of the Kubernetes project itself.

You can use the apt instructions to get the repo information to download the .deb file yourself if you need it for offline installation.

Debian or Ubuntu have various docs out there for how to build packages if you are interested in building your own.

[sftim]

/retitle Complaint about Debian packages (kubectl)

In connection with https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/

[sftim]

Packaging such as .deb and .rpm are not handled by the community. Instructions for using apt are provided here as a convenience, but there are a lot of different types of packages and ways to use them that are outside the scope of the Kubernetes project itself.

We do provide Debian packages @stmcginnis

See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/#install-using-native-package-management and https://kubernetes.io/releases/download/

/kind support

[sftim]

@naren4897 what's not right about the Kubernetes website? There are packages available for you to download.

If you'd like to be able to build Kubernetes from source, see https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes (we don't document a build from source; if we did, it would likely be on https://k8s.dev/)

[naren4897]

Thanks for the response, my issue is for some-one who is not familiar with go build and if they need to setup k8s cluster on debian offline vms, official deb images are not available with version details to download. hence raised a request.

[sftim]

As a project, and in general, we recommend asking your distribution to provide packages.

That's the usual way for [Linux] distributions to make software available.

[sftim]

As an aside, https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/10/12/bootstrap-an-air-gapped-cluster-with-kubeadm/ might be useful to you.

[sftim]

I don't see that there is anything to fix; https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/ already hyperlinks to a page with a section specifically about setting up a production cluster.