Install

macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux (x86_64, aarch64), with Homebrew:

brew install jairoFernandez/tap/litek8s

or with the install script:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jairoFernandez/litek8s/main/install.sh | sh

The script downloads the latest release for your OS and architecture, checks its SHA-256, and installs litek8s to ~/.local/bin (on macOS also the dev VM’s guest kernel and root image to ~/.local/share/litek8s/vm). Options: LITEK8S_VERSION=v0.1.0, LITEK8S_INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin. Or download an archive from the releases page and check it against SHA256SUMS.

On Linux, dev clusters run rootless and need crun, uidmap, passt (or slirp4netns), iproute2 and iptables: litek8s dev setup checks everything and says what is missing (dev.md), and sudo "$(command -v litek8s)" dev setup installs the missing packages (the full path because sudo’s PATH leaves out ~/.local/bin). macOS needs nothing else: no Docker Desktop, no Lima, no sudo.

Running it as a service on Linux servers (litek8s install server|agent, also over SSH) is in clusters.md; private registries and mirrors for their nodes (--registries registries.yaml) in registries.md.

Shell completion: Homebrew installs it; otherwise litek8s completion zsh (or bash, fish, powershell, elvish) prints the script, e.g. source <(litek8s completion zsh) in ~/.zshrc.

From source: cargo install litek8s (crates.io) or cargo install --git https://github.com/jairoFernandez/litek8s (Rust ≥ 1.90; macOS also needs the guest, see dev.md).