Install Guide

Homebrew

brew install kubecolor

Note

If you previously installed kubecolor using the old brew install kubecolor/tap/kubecolor command, remove it first:

brew uninstall kubecolor
brew untap kubecolor/tap
brew update
brew install kubecolor

Scoop

scoop install kubecolor

Nix

nix-shell -p kubecolor

AUR (Arch User Repositories)

yay -Syu kubecolor

Termux (Android)

pkg install kubecolor

Download binary via GitHub release

Go to Release page then download the binary which fits your environment.

Compile from source

Requires Go 1.22 (or later)

go install github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor@latest

Docker

Running it via Docker can be nice for just trying out kubecolor:

docker run --rm -it -v $HOME/.kube:/home/nonroot/.kube:ro ghcr.io/kubecolor/kubecolor get pods

Note

If you’re getting the error permission denied (common in environments like WSL):

error: error loading config file "/home/nonroot/.kube/config": open /home/nonroot/.kube/config: permission denied

then try changing the permission of your ~/.kube/config file:

chmod 644 ~/.kube/config

Usage

kubecolor understands every subcommands and options which are available for kubectl. What you have to do is just using kubecolor instead of kubectl like:

kubecolor --context=your_context get pods -o json

If you want to make the colorized kubectl default on your shell, just add this line into your shell configuration file:

alias kubectl="kubecolor"