Kubectl Windows installer - Winget / Standalone installer

[ssrahul96]

What would you like to be added:
Windows installer for Kubectl

Why is this needed:
Easy installation with Winget

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[ssrahul96]

helm/helm#8203 (comment), I have made a sample installer for helm, which can be used for kubectl package also

https://github.com/ssrahul96/helm-windows-installer

Check whether this can be used. the build and release information are not publicly available, hence could not make any PR

[ssrahul96]

Related Issues
#1105
#968
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[sftim]

Are there any enabling pieces of work that would allow a downstream automation to consume some data and make a package / installer / etc? If so, what are those enabling pieces of work?

[ssrahul96]

@sftim , helm/helm#10238 this PR is submitted for helm, similar approach can be used here,, using innounp to generate the installer.

[sftim]

OK, we're definitely not likely to adopt CircleCI nor to start building installers as part of the kubectl build process. What we might be willing to do for this repo is:

• publish target OS details (for Windows, that might be TargetDeviceFamily details such as minimum and maximum supported OS version), so that a later stage can use those to produce an installer
• agree on some metadata to allow plugins to be marked as optional packages that depend on kubectl

If steps like that would help, let's discuss that.

[ssrahul96]

This installer need not be build on CicleCI, as helm was built over there, I ve submitted a PR for this, the same logics can be used for any CI pipeline,

build and installer stage generation should be separated. this would act like an additional way of installing kubectl (specially installing using Winget)

[eddiezane]

Cheers @ssrahul96,

I checked with folks on the release team and maintaining a Windows installer is not something we want to do at the moment. This would be a great place for the community to take up the reins and show demand.

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@eddiezane: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

Cheers @ssrahul96,

I checked with folks on the release team and maintaining a Windows installer is not something we want to do at the moment. This would be a great place for the community to take up the reins and show demand.

/close

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