krew, A Plugin Index Fetched And A Plugin Installed
krew on EL 10 from the GitHub release; get_url refuses it unless its SHA-256 is in the vendor's per-asset .sha256, and the live test re-checks it, then has krew update clone the plugin index and krew install ctx land the plugin under a throwaway KREW_ROOT; a plugin the index lacks is refused. Installed as krew and kubectl-krew. Pinned. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
krew
Kubernetes SIGs krew on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no krew, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from krew.sigs.k8s.io, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. krew_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs krew list and expects
"ctx" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
A plugin index fetched, a plugin installed. The live test gives
krew a KREW_ROOT of its own, has krew update clone the plugin index
(git is installed for it) and krew install ctx download the plugin,
expects krew list to name it and KREW_ROOT/bin/kubectl-ctx to be the
link krew makes; a plugin the index does not have is refused. The binary
is installed as krew with a kubectl-krew link, so kubectl krew works
once kubectl is on the host (the kubectl role in this catalogue). The
vendor publishes one bare .sha256 per asset.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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