# Install kubevious with Homebrew

Detects and prevents Kubernetes misconfigurations and violations. Version 1.0.64 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-15.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:kubevious
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install kubevious
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:kubevious
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.64
- **Source summary:** Detects and prevents Kubernetes misconfigurations and violations
- **Homepage:** <https://kubevious.io>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-15T10:20:19-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- kubevious (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.0.64
## Project history and usage

Kubevious CLI is a Kubernetes manifest assurance and validation tool. It packages the Kubevious rules-and-dashboard lineage into a command suitable for local YAML checks, GitOps validation, CI/CD pipelines, and live-cluster troubleshooting.

### Project history

The Kubevious CLI README says the CLI was created from lessons learned in the Kubevious Dashboard project and from the evolution of its rules framework. That origin explains its emphasis on cross-manifest validation rather than checking one YAML file at a time.

### Adoption history

The CLI has a smaller footprint than KubeVela or kubespy, but it is distributed through Homebrew, npm, precompiled binaries, Docker, and GitHub Actions Marketplace. Its repository release list shows many 1.0.x releases, which suggests maintenance around Kubernetes schema and rule details.

### How it is used

Users run kubevious guard or lint against files, directories, URLs, stdin, Helm charts, Kustomize output, and live-cluster manifests. The tool is meant to catch typos, schema errors, conflicts, inconsistencies, compliance issues, and best-practice violations before changes reach a cluster.

### Why package nerds care

Kubevious CLI is package-nerd significant as a validation binary that can sit in pre-commit hooks, CI, and package-manager install paths. It overlaps with kubeval, kubeconform, conftest, Polaris, and kube-score, but its README emphasizes application-centric, cross-manifest validation inherited from the Kubevious dashboard.

### Timeline

- 2020: Public Kubevious dashboard material described an application-centric Kubernetes validation and visualization project.
- 2023: Kubevious CLI mirror/package metadata described the CLI as the newer standalone validation tool based on the dashboard foundation.
- 2025: The GitHub release list showed the v1.0.6x series with fixes and rule/schema changes.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Kubevious Dashboard, Kubernetes Dashboard, kubeval, kubeconform, conftest, Polaris, kube-score, Helm, and Kustomize. The CLI is closest to policy and manifest validation tools, but with Kubevious-specific app-centric correlation.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kubevious>
- <https://github.com/kubevious/cli>
- <https://github.com/kubevious/cli/releases>
- <https://github.com/marketplace/actions/kubevious-cli>
- <https://kubevious.io/>
- <https://kubevious.io/docs>


## Security Notes

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph