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Installation Guide for kubectl, oc, git, helm and ansible on Ubuntu/Debian

Install Packages

  1. Update and install packages
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y upgrade
  1. Install packages
sudo apt -y install ansible git openjdk-17-jre-headless python3-pip python3-kubernetes python3-requests python3-yaml
  1. Install kubectl and oc
curl -LO "https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/latest/openshift-client-linux.tar.gz"

tar -xzvf openshift-client-linux.tar.gz

chmod +x oc 
chmod +x kubectl

sudo mv oc kubectl /usr/local/bin/
  1. Install ansible kubernetes.core
ansible-galaxy collection install kubernetes.core

Install git, ansible, helm

  1. Add the Helm dependencies:
curl https://baltocdn.com/helm/signing.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/helm.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt install apt-transport-https --yes
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/helm.gpg] https://baltocdn.com/helm/stable/debian/ all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/helm-stable-debian.list

sudo apt update
sudo apt install helm

Verify

  1. Verify the installation:
git --version
  1. Verify the installation:
oc version
  1. Verify the installation:
kubectl version
  1. Verify the installation:
ansible --version
  1. Verify the installation:
helm --version
  1. Verify the installation:
keytool