Installing the Knative CLI

    To install the Client, you must download the executable binary for your system. Links to the latest stable executable binary releases are available on the kn release page.

    You must place the executable binary in your system path, and make sure that it is executable.

    Nightly executable binaries are available for users who want to install the most recent pre-release features of kn. These binaries include all kn features, even those not included in the latest stable release.

    To install the kn Client, you must download the executable binary for your system. Links to the latest nightly executable binaries are available here:

    You must place the executable binary in your system path, and make sure that it is executable.

    Install kn using Go

    Prerequisite: Building kn requires Go v1.14 or newer. You will first need a working Go environment.

    1. Check out the Client repository:
    1. Build an executable binary:
    1. Move into your system path, and verify that kn commands are working properly. For example:

    kn container images

    The kn container images are available for users who require these for additional use cases. For example, if you want to use the kn container image with Tekton.

    Links to either the nightly container image or the latest stable container image are available here:

    You can run kn from a container image. For example:

    What’s next

    To learn more about using , see the .