Flux CLI

The Flux CLI is available as a binary executable for all major platforms, the binaries can be downloaded from GitHub releases page.

Install using package management

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows

brew install fluxcd/tap/flux

brew install fluxcd/tap/flux

yay -S flux-bin

nix-env -i fluxcd

choco install flux

Install using Bash

To install the latest release on Linux, macOS or Windows WSL:

curl -s https://fluxcd.io/install.sh | sudo FLUX_VERSION=2.0.0 bash

The install script does the following:

• attempts to detect your OS
• downloads, verifies and unpacks the release tar file in a temporary directory
• copies the flux binary to /usr/local/bin
• removes the temporary directory

Install using Docker

A container image with kubectl and flux is available on DockerHub and GitHub:

• docker.io/fluxcd/flux-cli:<version>
• ghcr.io/fluxcd/flux-cli:<version>

Example usage:

$ docker run -it --entrypoint=sh -v ~/.kube/config:/kubeconfig ghcr.io/fluxcd/flux-cli:v2.0.0
/ # flux check --kubeconfig=kubeconfig

Enable shell autocompletion

To configure your shell to load flux bash completions add to your profile:

. <(flux completion bash)

zsh, fish, and powershell are also supported with their own sub-commands.

Install using GitHub Actions

To install the latest release on Linux, macOS or Windows GitHub runners:

steps:
  - name: Setup Flux CLI
    uses: fluxcd/flux2/action@main
    with:
      version: 'latest'
  - name: Run Flux CLI
    run: flux version --client

For more information please see the Flux GitHub Action documentation.