Setup

Overview

This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Holos and its dependencies, as well as the initialization of a minimal Platform that you can extend to meet your specific needs.

Installing

Holos is distributed as a single file executable that can be installed in a couple of ways.

Install with brew

brew install holos-run/tap/holos

Go

go install github.com/holos-run/holos/cmd/holos@latest

Completion

zsh

source <(holos completion zsh)

bash

source <(holos completion bash)

fish

source <(holos completion fish)

ksh

source <(holos completion ksh)

Releases

Download holos from the releases page and place the executable into your shell path.

Dependencies

Holos integrates with the following tools that should be installed to enable their functionality.

• Helm to fetch and render Helm chart Components.
• Kubectl to kustomize components.

note

Holos is tested with Helm version v3.16.2.

Please try upgrading helm if you encounter Error: chart requires kubeVersion ... errors.

Next Steps

You've got the structure of your platform configuration in place. Continue on to Hello Holos where you'll learn how easy it is to manage a Helm chart with holos.