# clusterctl mit Homebrew, Nix, zypper, winget installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für clusterctl in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:clusterctl ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install clusterctl ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#clusterctl ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/clusterctl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install clusterctl ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: clusterctl from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id Kubernetes.clusterctl -e ``` Evidenz: Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.clusterctl from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:clusterctl - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 1.13.4 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Home for the Cluster Management API work, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T22:04:02+02:00 - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - clusterctl (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 1.13.4 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung clusterctl is the command-line tool for bootstrapping and managing Kubernetes Cluster API providers and management clusters. ### Projektgeschichte The Cluster API project was started by Kubernetes SIG Cluster Lifecycle to provide declarative APIs and tooling for provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters. clusterctl became the user-facing CLI for that project. The official docs say it handles the lifecycle of a Cluster API management cluster, provides a simple day-1 experience, fetches provider component YAML, installs providers, and encodes best practices for provider management and upgrades. ### Adoptionsgeschichte clusterctl adoption follows Cluster API adoption across infrastructure providers. The docs describe default provider repositories sponsored by SIG Cluster Lifecycle and a provider contract that lets infrastructure, bootstrap, and control-plane providers publish release assets for clusterctl. The input package facts show distribution through Homebrew, Nix, winget, and zypper, which matches its role as a cross-platform Kubernetes operations CLI. ### Wie es verwendet wird Common commands include `clusterctl init` for management-cluster initialization, `clusterctl generate cluster` for workload-cluster templates, `clusterctl move` for moving Cluster API objects between management clusters, and `clusterctl upgrade plan/apply` for provider upgrades. clusterctl uses `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml` for provider repository configuration, variable substitution values, image overrides, and options such as log level or version-check behavior. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren clusterctl matters to package maintainers because it is the small local binary that wires a large Kubernetes provider ecosystem together: it discovers releases, fetches YAML assets, talks to GitHub or Go proxies, and applies provider contracts across platforms. It is also a classic modern infrastructure CLI: a single executable distributed by OS package managers while its real work coordinates remote releases, Kubernetes manifests, and cluster lifecycle state. ### Zeitleiste - 2019: Cluster API GitHub releases include early v0.1.x and v0.3.x releases. - 2021: Cluster API v1.0.0 was published. - 2024: Cluster API v1.7 and v1.8 release candidates were published. - 2026: The Cluster API book documents v1.13 and current clusterctl behavior. ### Related projects - Cluster API is the parent project for clusterctl. - kubeadm is discussed in the official Cluster API introduction as prior SIG Cluster Lifecycle tooling that reduced Kubernetes bootstrap complexity. - Cluster API providers such as Cluster API Provider AWS implement the provider contracts that clusterctl consumes. ### Quellen - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - clusterctl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/clusterctl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - zypper - clusterctl - 1.13.4-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: clusterctl from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | CLI tool to handle the lifecycle of a Cluster API management cluster | https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api - zypper - clusterctl-bash-completion - 1.13.4-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: clusterctl-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bash Completion for clusterctl | https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api - zypper - clusterctl-fish-completion - 1.13.4-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: clusterctl-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Fish Completion for clusterctl | https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api - zypper - clusterctl-zsh-completion - 1.13.4-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: clusterctl-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Zsh Completion for clusterctl | https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api - winget - Kubernetes.clusterctl: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.clusterctl from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/clusterctl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/clusterctl.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph