# cilium-cli mit Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman, zypper, winget installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cilium-cli in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cilium-cli
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cilium-cli
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add cilium-cli
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cilium-cli
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ci/cilium-cli/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S cilium-cli
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: cilium-cli from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install cilium-cli
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Cilium.CiliumCLI -e
```

  Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: Cilium.CiliumCLI from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cilium-cli
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.19.7
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium
- **Homepage:** <https://cilium.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-29T00:07:37Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cilium (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.19.7
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Cilium CLI is the official command-line installer, manager, and troubleshooting tool for Kubernetes clusters running Cilium, the eBPF-based networking, security, and observability platform.

### Projektgeschichte

The cilium/cilium-cli repository was created in December 2020. Its early public releases began with v0.1 in February 2021, aligning with the project's move toward a dedicated CLI for cluster installation, status checks, Hubble enablement, connectivity testing, ClusterMesh, and related operations.

The CLI is maintained as a separate Go repository from the main Cilium datapath and control-plane repository, but its README and Cilium documentation present it as the standard quick-install path for Cilium users.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Cilium's official quick-install documentation instructs users to install the Cilium CLI before installing Cilium into a Kubernetes cluster. That placement makes the CLI a front door for new Cilium deployments rather than only an optional helper.

The input records packages across Homebrew, Alpine, Nix, Arch, winget, and zypper. Homebrew's formula API currently reports more than one thousand 30-day install-on-request events, which is strong package-manager adoption for a specialized Kubernetes networking CLI.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Common documented commands include cilium install, cilium status, cilium hubble enable, cilium connectivity test, cilium connectivity perf, and ClusterMesh setup. The README also lists supported environments such as minikube, kind, EKS, GKE, AKS BYOCNI, k3s, and self-managed clusters.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package maintainers, cilium-cli is a modern cloud-native operations binary with frequent releases, official multi-OS binary artifacts, and compatibility tracking against Cilium versions. It is also a good example of package managers distributing the operational CLI separately from the Kubernetes workloads it manages.

### Zeitleiste

- 2020-12-22: cilium/cilium-cli repository created.
- 2021-02-15: v0.1 release published.
- 2021: README documents installation, status, Hubble, connectivity tests, performance tests, and ClusterMesh capabilities.
- 2026-06-25: v0.19.5 release published.
- 2026: Homebrew packages cilium-cli 0.19.5 and the input records broad Linux/macOS/Windows package-manager coverage.

### Related projects

- Cilium is the Kubernetes networking, security, and observability system managed by the CLI.
- Hubble is the observability component enabled and tested through cilium hubble and cilium connectivity commands.
- ClusterMesh is a Cilium multi-cluster feature with CLI setup flows documented in the README.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli#readme>
- <https://docs.cilium.io/en/stable/gettingstarted/k8s-install-default/>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/cilium/cilium-cli>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/cilium/cilium-cli/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cilium-cli.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - cilium-cli: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ci/cilium-cli/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - cilium-cli - 0.19.2-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | CLI to install, manage and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium | https://cilium.io/
- apk - cilium-cli-bash-completion - 0.19.2-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for cilium-cli | https://cilium.io/
- apk - cilium-cli-fish-completion - 0.19.2-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for cilium-cli | https://cilium.io/
- apk - cilium-cli-zsh-completion - 0.19.2-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: cilium-cli-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for cilium-cli | https://cilium.io/
- pacman - cilium-cli - 0.19.4-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cilium-cli from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium | https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli
- zypper - cilium-cli - 0.19.7-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium | https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli
- zypper - cilium-cli-bash-completion - 0.19.7-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bash Completion for cilium-cli | https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli
- zypper - cilium-cli-fish-completion - 0.19.7-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Fish Completion for cilium-cli | https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli
- zypper - cilium-cli-zsh-completion - 0.19.7-1.1: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: cilium-cli-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Zsh Completion for cilium-cli | https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli
- winget - Cilium.CiliumCLI: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Cilium.CiliumCLI from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cilium-cli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cilium-cli.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph