Installation

Download from Release

Copy the latest Releases to shell’s search path.

Homebrew

# install
brew install Azure/kubelogin/kubelogin

# upgrade
brew update
brew upgrade Azure/kubelogin/kubelogin

Linux

Azure Linux 3

tdnf install -y kubelogin

Using azure cli

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/aks?view=azure-cli-latest#az-aks-install-cli

# install (May require using the command ‘sudo’)
az aks install-cli

Container image

docker pull ghcr.io/azure/kubelogin:latest # or by release tag

Using asdf

asdf and the asdf-kubelogin plugin are not maintained by Microsoft.

# install
asdf plugin add kubelogin
asdf install kubelogin latest
asdf set kubelogin latest

# upgrade
asdf update
asdf plugin update kubelogin
asdf install kubelogin latest
asdf set kubelogin latest

Windows

Using winget

From Powershell:

winget install --id=Kubernetes.kubectl  -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.Azure.Kubelogin  -e

Using scoop

This package is not maintained by Microsoft.

From Powershell:

scoop install kubectl azure-kubelogin

Using chocolatey

This package is not maintained by Microsoft.

From Powershell:

choco install kubernetes-cli azure-kubelogin

Using azure cli

From Powershell:

az aks install-cli
$targetDir="$env:USERPROFILE\.azure-kubelogin"
$oldPath = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User")
$oldPathArray=($oldPath) -split ";"
if(-Not($oldPathArray -Contains "$targetDir")) {
    write-host "Permanently adding $targetDir to User Path"
    $newPath = "$oldPath;$targetDir" -replace ";+", ";"
    [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path",$newPath,"User")
    $env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User"),[System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") -join ";"
}