This is a small tool that manages binaries for envtest. It can be used to download new binaries, list currently installed and available ones, and clean up versions.

To use it, download the binary from the release page.

If you want to install this with Golang, you can install a release by using a release branch instead.

NOTE: Each release branch may prefer a different version of Golang when installing.

go install sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/tools/setup-envtest@release-0.22

If you are using Golang 1.23, use the release-0.20 branch instead:

go install sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/tools/setup-envtest@release-0.20

For full documentation, run it with the --help flag, but here are some examples:

# download the latest envtest, and print out info about it
setup-envtest use

# download the latest 1.19 envtest, and print out the path
setup-envtest use -p path 1.19.x!

# switch to the most recent 1.21 envtest on disk
source <(setup-envtest use -i -p env 1.21.x)

# list all available local versions for darwin/amd64
setup-envtest list -i --os darwin --arch amd64

# remove all versions older than 1.16 from disk
setup-envtest cleanup <1.16

# use the value from $KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS if set, otherwise follow the normal
# logic for 'use'
setup-envtest --use-env

# use the value from $KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS if set, otherwise use the latest
# installed version
setup-envtest use -i --use-env

# sideload a pre-downloaded tarball as Kubernetes 1.16.2 into our store
setup-envtest sideload 1.16.2 < downloaded-envtest.tar.gz

# Per default envtest binaries are downloaded from:
# https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools/master/envtest-releases.yaml
# To download from a custom index use the following:
setup-envtest use --index https://custom.com/envtest-releases.yaml

By default, binaries are stored in a subdirectory of an OS-specific data directory, as per the OS's conventions.

On Linux, this is $XDG_DATA_HOME; on Windows, %LocalAppData; and on OSX, ~/Library/Application Support.

There's an overall folder that holds all files, and inside that is a folder for each version/platform pair. The exact directory structure is not guaranteed, except that the leaf directory will contain the names expected by envtest. You should always use setup-envtest fetch or setup-envtest switch (generally with the -p path or -p env flags) to get the directory that you should use.

This is a normal binary, not a shell script, so we can't set the parent process's environment variables. If you use this by hand a lot and want to save the typing, you could put something like the following in your ~/.zshrc (or similar for bash/fish/whatever, modified to those):

setup-envtest() {
    if (($@[(Ie)use])); then
        source <($GOPATH/bin/setup-envtest "$@" -p env)
    else
        $GOPATH/bin/setup-envtest "$@"
    fi
}

There are a few options.

First, you'll probably want to set the -i/--installed flag. If you want to avoid forgetting to set this flag, set the ENVTEST_INSTALLED_ONLY env variable, which will switch that flag on by default.

Then, you have a few options for managing your binaries:

• If you don't really want to manage with this tool, or you want to respect the $KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS variable if it's set to something outside the store, use the use --use-env -i command.

  --use-env makes the command unconditionally use the value of KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS as long as it contains the required binaries, and -i indicates that we only ever want to work with installed binaries.

  As noted about, you can use ENVTEST_INSTALLED_ONLY=true to switch -i on by default, and you can use ENVTEST_USE_ENV=true to switch --use-env on by default.

• If you want to use this tool, but download your gziped tarballs separately, you can use the sideload command. You'll need to use the -k/--version flag to indicate which version you're sideloading.

  After that, it'll be as if you'd installed the binaries with use.

• If you want to talk to some internal source via HTTP, you can simply set --index The index must contain references to envtest binary archives in the same format as: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools/master/envtest-releases.yaml