Installing the kubectl from the official Red Hat based distributions and adding it through the default yum packages will throw failure: repodata/repomd.xml from kubernetes: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. on Amazon Linux 2. So here I’m going to show you how to install kubectl on Amazon Linux 2 through curl.
Prerequisites
- Amazon Linux 2
- sudo privileges
Install Kubectl on Amazon Linux 2
Step 1. Download the latest stable version.
curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
Step 2. Pull the kubectl checksum file.
curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl.sha256"
Step 3. Verify kubectl binary with the checksum file.
echo "$(<kubectl.sha256) kubectl" | sha256sum --check
Step 4. Install kubectl.
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
Step 5. Verify installation.
kubectl version --client --output=yaml
Output:
clientVersion:
buildDate: "2022-02-16T12:38:05Z"
compiler: gc
gitCommit: e6c093d87ea4cbb530a7b2ae91e54c0842d8308a
gitTreeState: clean
gitVersion: v1.23.4
goVersion: go1.17.7
major: "1"
minor: "23"
platform: linux/amd64
Conclusion
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