# kwok を Homebrew, Nix, winget でインストール

kwok のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

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

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kwok
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

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

  証拠: 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
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:kwok
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 0.8.0
- **ソース概要:** Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet - Simulates thousands of Nodes and Clusters
- **ホームページ:** <https://kwok.sigs.k8s.io>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kwok>
- **最終更新:** 2026-06-23T10:35:17Z
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- kwok (エイリアス)
- kwokctl (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 0.8.0
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

### プロジェクトの歴史

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.

### 採用の歴史

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.

### 使われ方

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.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

### タイムライン

- 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.

### ソース

- <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/>


## セキュリティノート

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** orange / 中
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- 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


## Combined YAML source

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


## ソース

- 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