# Installer kwok avec Homebrew, Nix, winget

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de kwok pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:kwok
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kwok
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#kwok
```

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

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id Kubernetes.kwok -e
```

  Preuve: Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.kwok from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:kwok
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kwok>
- **Version:** 0.8.0
- **Résumé source:** Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Nodes and Clusters
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok>
- **Docs amont:** <https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io>
- **Licence:** Apache-2.0
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok/archive/refs/tags/v0.8.0.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-23T10:35:17Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- kwok (cli)
- kwokctl (cli)
- kwok (alias)
- kwokctl (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- go

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 0.8.0
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-06-23
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok
- dernière version détectée: v0.8.0 (à jour)
## Historique du projet et usages

KWOK, short for Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet, is a Kubernetes SIG project for simulating nodes, pods, and cluster behavior without running kubelets on real machines. The package ships the kwok simulator and kwokctl cluster-management CLI.

### Historique du projet

KWOK was introduced publicly on the Kubernetes blog on 2023-03-01 by contributors from DaoCloud and Apple. The announcement framed it as a toolkit for creating clusters with thousands of simulated nodes in seconds, aimed at controller development, scale testing, and Kubernetes learning without large infrastructure bills.

The project lives under kubernetes-sigs, which makes it part of the Kubernetes community's SIG-governed tooling rather than a vendor-only simulator. Its release process uses Kubernetes-style release issues, staging images, GitHub releases, and registry.k8s.io promotion.

### Historique d'adoption

KWOK's adoption is strongest in test and simulation workflows. The official site emphasizes compatibility with Kubernetes API clients such as kubectl and Helm, and the docs show fake nodes and pods represented as ordinary API objects that kwok keeps in plausible states.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users install kwok to maintain fake node and pod status, and kwokctl to create or delete local simulated clusters. Package-manager users care about having both binaries available for fast CI jobs, controller load tests, scheduler experiments, and demos that need Kubernetes API behavior without worker-node cost.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

KWOK is interesting because it packages a fake kubelet world as normal CLI tooling. It turns what used to require heavyweight test clusters or bespoke mocks into a reproducible binary install, making it a neat inhabitant of the Kubernetes testing toolbox.

### Chronologie

- 2022-09-27: The v0.0.1 release issue was opened in the kubernetes-sigs/kwok repository.
- 2023-03-01: The Kubernetes blog published the public KWOK introduction.
- 2023-08-15: The node and pod management guide was updated with examples for keeping fake nodes ready and running fake pods.

### Related projects

- KWOK relates to Kubernetes, kubelet, kubemark, controller testing, scheduler testing, kubectl, Helm, and registry.k8s.io image promotion workflows.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok>
- <https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok/issues/29>
- <https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/03/01/introducing-kwok/>
- <https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io/>
- <https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/kwok-manage-nodes-and-pods/>


## Notes de sécurité

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** kwok
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - kwok: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/kw/kwok/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - Kubernetes.kwok: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.kwok from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix
- winget - Kubernetes.kwokctl: installed executable or alias match | Windows Package Manager source index: Kubernetes.kwokctl from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


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- [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/fr/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
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- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/fr/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [go](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [eksctl](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/eksctl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, clusters, kubernetes.
- [kubernetes-cli](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/kubernetes-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, kubernetes.
- [k9s](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/k9s/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, kubernetes.
- [k3d](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/k3d/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, kubernetes.
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- [openshift-cli](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/openshift-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, kubernetes.
- [skaffold](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/skaffold/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, kubernetes.
- [cmctl](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/cmctl/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, kubernetes.
- [chaoskube](https://pkg.so/fr/brew/chaoskube/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, cloud, cloud-infrastructure, infrastructure, kubernetes.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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