# kbld mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:kbld
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kbld
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#kbld
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:kbld
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.49.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Tool for building and pushing container images in development workflows
- **Homepage:** <https://carvel.dev/kbld/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/carvel-dev/kbld>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T21:58:38+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- kbld (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.49.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

kbld is a Carvel CLI for Kubernetes and YAML workflows that builds, pushes, resolves, locks, packages, and relocates container image references.

### Projektgeschichte

The kbld repository began in April 2019. Its README and Carvel site describe a tool that delegates image building to mature tools such as Docker and Buildpacks pack, then rewrites YAML configuration to immutable digest references.

kbld grew as part of the k14s/Carvel family rather than as a standalone monolith. Carvel documentation presents ytt, kbld, and kapp as composable tools: ytt structures and overlays YAML, kbld handles images, and kapp deploys and diffs Kubernetes resources.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Carvel's public materials describe the suite as born from frustration with monolithic Kubernetes deployment tools and built around Unix-style composition. kbld's adoption follows that pattern: it appears in Homebrew, Nix, and Carvel install flows as one small command in a larger Kubernetes delivery toolchain.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Typical kbld usage pipes or reads YAML, finds image references, builds or resolves them, and emits YAML with digest-pinned images. Its docs also cover lock files, registry pushes, packaging images into tarballs, and relocation between registries.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

kbld is package-nerd interesting because it makes image immutability a CLI transformation step. Instead of hiding build metadata in a platform service, it keeps the artifact graph visible in YAML and lock files that can be piped into other tools.

### Zeitleiste

- 2019-04-19: Repository initialized
- 2019: k14s tools including kbld were released as composable Kubernetes workflow tools
- 2020-08: k14s was rebranded as Carvel
- 2022-10: VMware announced Carvel's move into the CNCF Sandbox
- 2026-06-17: v0.49.1 release appeared in the GitHub release list

### Related projects

- kbld is closely related to Carvel ytt, kapp, imgpkg, vendir, kapp-controller, Docker, Buildpacks pack, Kubernetes manifests, Helm, and kustomize.

### Quellen

- <https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2022/10/25/carvel-sets-sail-for-the-cncf-sandbox/>
- <https://carvel.dev/blog/deploying-apps-with-ytt-kbld-kapp/>
- <https://carvel.dev/blog/introduction-to-carvel-blog-post/>
- <https://carvel.dev/kbld/>
- <https://carvel.dev/kbld/docs/develop/building/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kbld>
- <https://github.com/carvel-dev/kbld>
- <https://github.com/carvel-dev/kbld/commit/bc8118ca3ad7ecb7b2e3825d517a121c9c767cde.patch>


## Sicherheitshinweise

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - kbld: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/kb/kbld/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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