krew plugin manager for kubectl

Plugins are awesome. Plugins when done right, provide an easy and safe way to extend an application, framework, API or whatever else you can think of, well at least in theory :) What’s almost better than a plugin? A plugin manager.

It’s hardly news for most people who work with Kubernetes, that kubectl has support for plugins but, what I’ve seemingly and completely missed is that there’s a plugin manager for kubectl, Krew. Not all plugins are available through Krew, but most are and at the time of writing there are in excess of 200 on their website.

There’s little point in going over how to install and use it, it’s all well documented.