Go Source

Install Kustomize from the Go source code

Requires Go to be installed.

Install the kustomize CLI from source without cloning the repo

GOBIN=$(pwd)/ GO111MODULE=on go get sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v3

Install the kustomize CLI from local source with cloning the repo

# Need go 1.13 or higher
unset GOPATH
# see https://golang.org/doc/go1.13#modules
unset GO111MODULES
# clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:kubernetes-sigs/kustomize.git
# get into the repo root
cd kustomize
# Optionally checkout a particular tag if you don't
# want to build at head
git checkout kustomize/v3.2.3
# build the binary
(cd kustomize; go install .)
# run it
~/go/bin/kustomize version