# Install draft with Homebrew, scoop

Day 0 tool for getting your app on Kubernetes fast. Version 0.17.15 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-28. Also installable with scoop: scoop install main/draft.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:draft
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install draft
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/draft
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/draft.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:draft
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.17.15
- **Source summary:** Day 0 tool for getting your app on Kubernetes fast
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Azure/draft>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Azure/draft>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-28T14:10:42+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- draft (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.17.15
## Project history and usage

Draft is an Azure-maintained command-line tool for generating the first Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, and GitHub Actions artifacts needed to get an application running on Kubernetes.

### Project history

The current Azure/draft repository was created in November 2021. Its README describes Draft as a developer onboarding tool for Kubernetes, replacing a blank project directory with generated Dockerfiles, manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize configuration, and workflow files.

### Adoption history

Draft's distribution through Homebrew and Scoop fits its target audience: developers setting up local Kubernetes or AKS workflows from a terminal. Microsoft Learn documents it as a Draft extension for Azure Kubernetes Service in preview, tying the CLI to AKS developer workflows.

### How it is used

Users run draft create to generate deployment files, draft generate-workflow to create GitHub Actions deployment workflows, draft setup-gh for GitHub OIDC setup with Azure, and draft validate to check manifests against AKS deployment safeguards.

### Why package nerds care

Draft is significant as a package because it packages cloud onboarding knowledge into a CLI generator: language detection, Kubernetes manifest shapes, Helm/Kustomize choices, GitHub Actions, and AKS policy checks become reproducible local artifacts.

### Timeline

- 2021: Azure/draft was created on GitHub.
- 2023: Microsoft Learn documentation for the AKS Draft extension carried a June 2023 document date.
- 2025-2026: the project published frequent v0.17.x releases, indicating continued maintenance.

### Related projects

- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Kustomize
- GitHub Actions
- kubectl

### Sources

- <https://github.com/Azure/draft>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/draft/main/README.md>
- <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/draft>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/Azure/draft>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/Azure/draft/releases?per_page=8>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger risk:** orange / medium
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Scoop - main/draft: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/draft.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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