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alexellis / arkade

arkade

Open Source Marketplace For Developer Tools

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0369122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 11 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 4 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

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For the CNCF landscape of tooling there's Arkade, which would at least cover you on the k9s front. [1] Personally, I just use Nix plus a Home Manager "flake". [2] It's completely self-contained so on any new computer I can install Nix, then build this flake manifest and have my entire developer environment ready to go in a few minutes. Having clean installed or adopted so many computers, at home or work, I have become obsessed with the fewest number of steps to productive environment. [1] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade [2] https://dee.underscore.world/blog/home-manager-flakes/
In Switching from macOS to Pop_OS
I built a feature in arkade [1] to pull in binaries for CLIs for infrastructure and developer tooling that I wanted to use - it now has 72 CLIs that you can pull down with a single command and most importantly, as near to instantly as you're going to get. For instance: arkade get kubectl@v1.22.1 yq helm faas-cli It's not got anywhere near the catalog of brew, and doesn't compile software, or help you find lib-xyz for your Yubikey, but it is really fast and has a growing community behind it. It works on MacOS, Linux, Windows and arm hosts to determine the correct download URL and pull in a binary. [1] https://github.com/alexellis/arkade Contributions are welcome.
In Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?

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