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brew install reckoner

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overview

Package summary

Declaratively install and manage multiple Helm chart releases

Project links

Commands and aliases

reckoner

history

Project history and usage

Reckoner is a command-line orchestrator that declares and manages multiple Helm releases from a course file.

Project history

Reckoner was developed as an open-source Fairwinds tool for declaratively managing multiple Helm chart releases. Its central abstraction is a course file that groups release definitions and related configuration.

The project has evolved alongside Helm and Kubernetes while retaining a deliberately thin command-line layer over Helm-oriented release management.

Adoption history

Reckoner occupies a focused niche among Helm operators who prefer to describe several chart releases together and apply them through one command-line workflow. The supplied package metadata records an official Homebrew formula.

How it is used

Users define repositories, charts, namespaces, values, and releases in course.yml, then invoke Reckoner to plan or apply the described Helm deployments.

The course file is commonly kept with infrastructure code so that related releases can be reviewed and operated as one declarative unit.

Why package nerds care

Reckoner is an example of the higher-level orchestration tools that grew around Helm: it keeps Helm charts as the deployment unit while adding a declarative, multi-release course file suitable for repository review and repeatable operations.

Timeline

Initial project era: Reckoner was created to coordinate multiple Helm releases declaratively.
Current Fairwinds era: The project is maintained under FairwindsOps with dedicated documentation and package-manager distribution.

Related projects

Helm supplies the chart and release mechanisms Reckoner orchestrates.
Kubernetes is the target platform for the Helm releases.
Fairwinds maintains Reckoner and other Kubernetes operations tooling.

Sources

Official documentation: https://reckoner.docs.fairwinds.com/
Official repository: https://github.com/FairwindsOps/reckoner
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security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ./course.yml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`reckoner`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-09-19

manager version6.3.0

manager updated2026-09-13

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv6.3.0

https://github.com/FairwindsOps/reckoner

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:reckoner
Version	6.3.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/reckoner
Homepage	https://github.com/FairwindsOps/reckoner
Repository	https://github.com/FairwindsOps/reckoner
License	Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://github.com/FairwindsOps/reckoner/archive/refs/tags/v6.3.0.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-09-13T05:37:54Z
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	helm
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	reckoner
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/reckoner.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

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