binary_release.md

*** PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree only. If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you almost certainly want the docs that go with that version.

Documentation for specific releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.

Getting a Binary Release

You can either build a release from sources or download a pre-built release. If you do not plan on developing Kubernetes itself, we suggest a pre-built release.

Prebuilt Binary Release

The list of binary releases is available for download from the GitHub Kubernetes repo release page.

Download the latest release and unpack this tar file on Linux or OS X, cd to the created kubernetes/ directory, and then follow the getting started guide for your cloud.

Building from source

Get the Kubernetes source. If you are simply building a release from source there is no need to set up a full golang environment as all building happens in a Docker container.

Building a release is simple.

git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes.git
cd kubernetes
make release

For more details on the release process see the build/ directory