# Install kubevela with Homebrew, Nix

Application Platform based on Kubernetes and Open Application Model. Version 1.11.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#kubevela.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kubevela
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kubevela
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#kubevela
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kubevela
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.11.0
- **Source summary:** Application Platform based on Kubernetes and Open Application Model
- **Homepage:** <https://kubevela.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kubevela/kubevela>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T21:58:47+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- vela (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.11.0
## Project history and usage

KubeVela is a Kubernetes-based application delivery platform built around Open Application Model ideas. Among the packages in this batch, it is the large ecosystem project: a CNCF project, a controller/CLI platform, and a long-running attempt to give platform teams a programmable application abstraction above raw Kubernetes objects.

### Project history

KubeVela was publicly launched in November 2020 around KubeCon + CloudNativeCon as an extensible application platform based on Open Application Model and Kubernetes. The project framed OAM as a way to separate developer-facing application descriptions from platform-engineer-defined components, traits, policies, and workflows.

### Adoption history

CNCF records show KubeVela was accepted to the foundation on June 22, 2021 and moved to Incubating maturity on February 27, 2023. The repository scale, release count, documentation site, community calls, and CNCF status make it substantially more adopted than the one-purpose CLIs in this batch.

### How it is used

Operators install KubeVela into Kubernetes and use the vela CLI to define, deploy, and operate applications across clusters and environments. The project documentation emphasizes render, orchestrate, deploy workflows, GitOps and CI/CD integration, CUE-powered extensibility, addons, observability, multi-tenancy, and multi-cluster delivery.

### Why package nerds care

KubeVela is interesting to package maintainers because the Homebrew package ships the vela CLI for a much larger control-plane system. It is also a good example of Kubernetes ecosystem packaging where a CLI, CRDs, Helm charts, release assets, docs, and CNCF metadata all describe different parts of the same project.

### Timeline

- 2020: KubeVela was launched publicly as an OAM-and-Kubernetes application platform.
- 2021: CNCF accepted KubeVela on June 22, 2021.
- 2023: KubeVela moved to CNCF Incubating maturity on February 27, 2023.
- 2026: The GitHub release page listed v1.10.9 on June 30, 2026.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Open Application Model, Kubernetes, CUE, Helm, Argo CD, Crossplane, Dapr, and platform-engineering systems that expose higher-level application delivery abstractions. KubeVela is especially tied to OAM because the OAM specification describes KubeVela as a driving implementation.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kubevela>
- <https://github.com/kubevela/kubevela>
- <https://github.com/kubevela/kubevela/releases>
- <https://kubevela.io/blog/2020/12/7/kubevela-the-extensible-app-platform-based-on-open-application-model-and-kubernetes/>
- <https://kubevela.io/docs>
- <https://oam.dev/>
- <https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/02/27/kubevela-brings-software-delivery-control-plane-capabilities-to-cncf-incubator/>
- <https://www.cncf.io/projects/kubevela/>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

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