# testkube mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:testkube
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install testkube
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#testkube
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:testkube
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.12.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Kubernetes-native framework for test definition and execution
- **Homepage:** <https://testkube.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kubeshop/testkube>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-26T00:50:37+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- kubectl-testkube (Alias)
- testkube (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.12.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Testkube is a Kubernetes-native testing platform and CLI for defining, running, and analyzing test executions in cloud-native environments. Official documentation describes it as a platform for tests across tools, environments, and pipelines, with a control plane and open-source agents.

### Projektgeschichte

The kubeshop/testkube repository was created in July 2021 and the GitHub release stream shows 1.0.x releases in April and May 2022. Its README positions Testkube as a test orchestration and execution framework for cloud-native applications, built around existing testing tools, CI/CD or GitOps pipelines, and Kubernetes infrastructure.

The project later separated a commercial control plane from an open-source agent model. The official open-source documentation says the Testkube Agent can run standalone and that users can interact with it through the Testkube CLI or the Agent API.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Testkube grew in the Kubernetes and CI/CD niche rather than as a general-purpose local test runner. Its docs emphasize workflows for tools such as k6, Playwright, Cypress, JMeter, and Postman, and its package metadata in this batch shows distribution through Homebrew and Nix for local CLI installation.

For package-manager users, Testkube matters because it gives a shell-installable entry point to cluster-resident test orchestration: a developer can install the CLI locally, then create, trigger, inspect, and automate tests that actually run inside Kubernetes.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The common CLI pattern is to install Testkube locally, connect it to a cluster or agent, and use it to create and run test workflows, view execution logs and artifacts, and integrate tests into CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes events, webhooks, or CDEvents.

The open-source agent documentation describes standalone mode as managing Testkube resources as CRDs, scheduling and executing workflows, collecting logs and artifacts into PostgreSQL and S3-compatible storage, listening to Kubernetes events, and emitting webhooks.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Testkube is notable in package-manager catalogs because it is a developer CLI whose real target is Kubernetes operational state. It belongs with tools that package a cloud-native control surface into a local binary, much like kubectl plugins and cluster management CLIs.

Its package value is highest for teams standardizing test orchestration in clusters: Homebrew or Nix gives developers the same command-line surface without hand-building the Go project.

### Zeitleiste

- 2021: kubeshop/testkube repository created on GitHub.
- 2022: 1.0.x releases appear in the official GitHub release stream.
- 2026: Official docs describe the current architecture as a control plane plus open-source agents, with Testkube 2.11.0 announced in the docs banner.

### Related projects

- Kubernetes CRDs, kubectl-style cluster workflows, Helm installation, k6, Playwright, Cypress, JMeter, Postman, CI/CD systems, GitOps tooling, webhooks, and CDEvents.

### Quellen

- <https://docs.testkube.io/>
- <https://docs.testkube.io/articles/open-source>
- <https://github.com/kubeshop/testkube README and GitHub repository metadata>
- input.source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - testkube: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/testkube/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/testkube.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/testkube.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