Installation via WinGet

[Bjego]

What would you like to be added:
Hey guys, it would be great, if I could install kubectl via WinGet (instead of Scoop or chocolatey) as winget is going to be the official windows based package manager in the future.

Why is this needed:
Win-Get is going to be the official package manager for windows OS. From a corporate perspective it will be much easier to argue for the official packagemanager as for 3rd party software installation sources like choco or scoop.

Why is it better:
Winget is based on simple YAML files to install you software. You do not need to bundle the application in a nuget-package. This makes shipping much easier. It's just an YAML update.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/package/repository

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[eddiezane]

Package managers are out of scope as the org just provides binaries and we rely on the community to handle distribution.

Personally - I took a look at adding it but it seems that WinGet doesn't yet support standalone executables. Tracking at microsoft/winget-cli#182.

Here's the manifest for when that lands.

# winget-pkgs/manifests/kubernetes/kubectl/1.19.3.yaml
Id: kubernetes.kubectl
Version: 1.19.3
Name: kubectl
Publisher: kubernetes
License: Apache-2.0
Tags: k8s, kubernetes, kubectl
Description: The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl, allows you to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. You can use kubectl to deploy applications, inspect and manage cluster resources, and view logs.
Homepage: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl
Installers:
  - Arch: x64
    Url: https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe
    # https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe.sha256
    Sha256: a7711a95d3084ccc69bca17ad1360465c19a26c7bc1980538e7e9fe85875624a
    InstallerType: exe
  - Arch: x86
    Url: https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/386/kubectl.exe
    # https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/386/kubectl.exe.sha256
    Sha256: 6dee847e49d8420aa9b48054fd076f34b99a9f1c9d1cd6e9a6131591f36d820a
    InstallerType: exe

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@eddiezane: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

Package managers are out of scope as the org just provides binaries and we rely on the community to handle distribution.

Personally - I took a look at adding it but it seems that WinGet doesn't yet support standalone executables. Tracking at microsoft/winget-cli#182.

Here's the manifest for when that lands.

# winget-pkgs/manifests/kubernetes/kubectl/1.19.3.yaml
Id: kubernetes.kubectl
Version: 1.19.3
Name: kubectl
Publisher: kubernetes
License: Apache-2.0
Tags: k8s, kubernetes, kubectl
Description: The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl, allows you to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. You can use kubectl to deploy applications, inspect and manage cluster resources, and view logs.
Homepage: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl
Installers:
 - Arch: x64
   Url: https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe
   # https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe.sha256
   Sha256: a7711a95d3084ccc69bca17ad1360465c19a26c7bc1980538e7e9fe85875624a
   InstallerType: exe
 - Arch: x86
   Url: https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/386/kubectl.exe
   # https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.19.3/bin/windows/386/kubectl.exe.sha256
   Sha256: 6dee847e49d8420aa9b48054fd076f34b99a9f1c9d1cd6e9a6131591f36d820a
   InstallerType: exe

/close

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