# glasskube mit Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, zypper installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:glasskube
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install glasskube
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install glasskube
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/glasskube/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#glasskube
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install glasskube-cli
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:glasskube
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.26.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Missing Package Manager for Kubernetes
- **Homepage:** <https://glasskube.dev/products/package-manager/docs/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/glasskube/glasskube>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-29T16:05:02+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- glasskube (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.26.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Glasskube is an open-source Kubernetes package manager that presents Kubernetes applications as dependency-aware packages managed through a CLI, a local web UI, and GitOps-friendly custom resources. Its project pitch frames it as a simpler package-management layer inspired by Homebrew and npm.

### Projektgeschichte

The project appeared publicly in early 2024 with alpha releases and a README explaining that its authors had spent years in the Kubernetes ecosystem struggling with package management, configuration, and distribution. Glasskube's design responds to those problems with typed package configuration, dependencies, update previews, repositories, and package custom resources.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Glasskube entered a crowded Kubernetes packaging space around Helm, Kustomize, operators, Artifact Hub, and GitOps tools. Its adoption story is early but visible through its GitHub releases, documentation, Homebrew installation path, CNCF Landscape badge, package repository, and supported package examples such as cert-manager, ingress-nginx, kube-prometheus, Kubernetes Dashboard, and CloudNativePG.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners install the CLI, point it at a kubeconfig, bootstrap the in-cluster components, start the local package-manager UI with glasskube serve, and then install, update, configure, describe, open, suspend, resume, or uninstall Kubernetes packages. Noninteractive users manage package repositories and values through CLI flags, while GitOps users work with the package custom resources.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, Glasskube is interesting because it imports expectations from OS package managers into Kubernetes: a central package repository, dependency handling, typed configuration, package status, and update workflows. Its Homebrew formula is mainly the entry point to a cluster-side package manager rather than the package manager's whole state.

### Zeitleiste

- 2024: Alpha releases begin in the GitHub release stream.
- 2024: The README positions Glasskube as a Kubernetes package manager inspired by Homebrew and npm.
- 2024: Changelog entries show package-operator, UI, GitOps, and repository workflow development.

### Related projects

- Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Renovate, Artifact Hub, cert-manager, ingress-nginx, kube-prometheus, CloudNativePG.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/glasskube/glasskube/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://glasskube.dev/products/package-manager/docs/>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glasskube/glasskube/main/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glasskube/glasskube/main/README.md>


## 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: ~/.kube/config

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.kube/config
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - glasskube: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gl/glasskube/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- zypper - glasskube-cli - 0.26.1-1.8: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: glasskube-cli from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | The next generation Package Manager for Kubernetes | https://github.com/glasskube/glasskube
- MacPorts - glasskube: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/glasskube/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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