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Quickstart

Prerequisites

Download kcp

Visit our latest release page and download kcp and kubectl-kcp-plugin that match your operating system and architecture.

Extract kcp and kubectl-kcp-plugin and place all the files in the bin directories somewhere in your $PATH.

Start kcp

You can start kcp using this command:

kcp start

This launches kcp in the foreground. You can press ctrl-c to stop it.

To see a complete list of server options, run kcp start options.

Set your KUBECONFIG

During its startup, kcp generates a kubeconfig in .kcp/admin.kubeconfig. Use this to connect to kcp and display the version to confirm it's working:

$ export KUBECONFIG=.kcp/admin.kubeconfig
$ kubectl version
Client Version: v1.31.1
Kustomize Version: v5.4.2
Server Version: v1.31.0+kcp-v0.26.0

Next steps

Thanks for checking out our quickstart!

If you're interested in learning more about all the features kcp has to offer, please check out our additional documentation: