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Advanced Configuration |
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By default, Krew installs itself and plugins to $HOME/.krew. This means
Krew itself and the installed plugins will be visible only to the user who
installed it.
To customize this installation path, set the KREW_ROOT environment variable
while [installing Krew]({{< relref "setup/install.md" >}}). After Krew is
installed, you still need to set KREW_ROOT in your environment for Krew
to be able to find its installation directory.
For example, add this to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:
export KREW_ROOT="/usr/local/krew"Note that you still need to add $KREW_ROOT/bin to your PATH variable
for kubectl to be able to find installed plugins.
When Krew is installed, it automatically initializes an index named default
pointing to the krew-index repository. You can force Krew to use a
different repository by setting KREW_DEFAULT_INDEX_URI before running the
[installation instructions]({{<ref "setup/install.md">}}) or after [removing the
default index]({{<ref "using-custom-indexes.md#the-default-index">}}).
KREW_DEFAULT_INDEX_URI must point to a git repository URI that uses a valid
git remote protocol.
To use a different default index, set the KREW_DEFAULT_INDEX_URI environment
variable in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.zshrc:
export KREW_DEFAULT_INDEX_URI='git@github.com:foo/custom-index.git'If you want to use Krew with an HTTP proxy, you can configure environment variables HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY. Behavior of these environment variables are explained here.
export HTTP_PROXY="proxy-ip:port"
export HTTPS_PROXY="proxy-ip:port"
export NO_PROXY="ip1,ip2:port2,.example.com"