# Install egctl with Homebrew, apt, Nix

Command-line utility for operating Envoy Gateway. Version 1.8.3 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install egctl.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:egctl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install egctl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install egctl
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: egctl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#egctl
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:egctl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.8.3
- **Source summary:** Command-line utility for operating Envoy Gateway
- **Homepage:** <https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T04:11:37+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- egctl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.8.3
## Project history and usage

egctl is the command-line utility shipped with Envoy Gateway, the Envoy project for managing Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes application gateway. Its history is therefore tied to Envoy Gateway's rise around Kubernetes Gateway API rather than to an independent CLI lineage.

### Project history

Envoy Gateway was introduced as an open source project for dynamically provisioning and configuring Envoy Proxy from Gateway API resources. The egctl binary became part of the release artifacts for operators who need a packaged command-line surface alongside the controller and Kubernetes manifests.

The earliest public Envoy Gateway release on GitHub was v0.1.0 in May 2022. Releases quickly added prebuilt egctl archives for common operating systems, making the CLI easy for Homebrew and other package managers to distribute separately from the full Kubernetes install manifests.

### Adoption history

egctl adoption follows Envoy Gateway adoption in cloud-native shops experimenting with or standardizing on Kubernetes Gateway API. The input package metadata lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and Nix, which fits a tool used by platform engineers across laptops, CI images, and operations hosts.

### How it is used

egctl is used for operating and inspecting Envoy Gateway deployments, complementing kubectl and the Gateway API objects that actually drive configuration. It is a package-manager-friendly way to put Envoy Gateway diagnostics and operator commands on a workstation without installing the whole project from source.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, egctl is a neat example of a sub-binary packaged out of a larger cloud-native controller repository. Its release assets sit next to CRDs and install manifests, so packaging it is about extracting the useful operator CLI from a broader Kubernetes release train.

### Timeline

- 2022-05-13: Envoy Gateway v0.1.0 prerelease appears.
- 2022-10-20: Envoy Gateway v0.2.0 is published as a non-prerelease.
- 2023-11-02: v0.6.0 shows the project maturing through 2023.
- 2026-06-05: v1.8.1 release includes egctl archives for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

### Related projects

- Envoy Proxy is the data-plane proxy managed by Envoy Gateway.
- Kubernetes Gateway API provides the resource model that Envoy Gateway watches and implements.
- kubectl remains the general Kubernetes CLI that egctl complements for Envoy Gateway-specific operations.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway#readme>
- <https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/docs>
- <https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/latest/tasks/operations/egctl/>
- <https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for egctl. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - egctl - 1:0.1-1.1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: egctl from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | control state of EnerGenie Programmable surge protector | https://github.com/unterwulf/egctl
- Nix - egctl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/eg/egctl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - egctl - 1:0.1-1.1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: egctl from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | control state of EnerGenie Programmable surge protector | https://github.com/unterwulf/egctl


## Combined YAML source

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