Installing the CLI

go installInstall scriptDownload a releaseBuild from source

The simplest path if you have Go, and the only one that needs no release asset at all — the module is published on the Go proxy:

go install github.com/priyolahiri/neo4j-kubernetes-operator/cmd/kubectl-neo4j@v1.21.1

It installs into $(go env GOPATH)/bin under the name kubectl-neo4j, which is exactly what kubectl needs for plugin discovery. Pin the version to the operator release you deploy — @latest will drift.

Detects your OS and architecture, downloads the matching archive, and verifies its checksum before installing — it aborts rather than installing something it could not verify:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/priyolahiri/neo4j-kubernetes-operator/main/hack/install-cli.sh | sh

Pipe-to-shell means trusting the network round trip. Downloading first and reading it is the better habit:

curl -sSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/priyolahiri/neo4j-kubernetes-operator/main/hack/install-cli.sh
less install-cli.sh
sh install-cli.sh

Two knobs: VERSION (default: latest release) and INSTALL_DIR (default: /usr/local/bin). Windows is not covered — use the .zip asset.

Binaries are attached to every release. Pick your platform:

VERSION=1.21.1     # the release you want
OS=darwin          # darwin | linux (Windows: see below)
ARCH=arm64         # arm64 | amd64

curl -sSLO "https://github.com/priyolahiri/neo4j-kubernetes-operator/releases/download/v${VERSION}/kubectl-neo4j_${VERSION}_${OS}_${ARCH}.tar.gz"
curl -sSLO "https://github.com/priyolahiri/neo4j-kubernetes-operator/releases/download/v${VERSION}/kubectl-neo4j_${VERSION}_checksums.txt"
shasum -a 256 -c --ignore-missing "kubectl-neo4j_${VERSION}_checksums.txt"

tar -xzf "kubectl-neo4j_${VERSION}_${OS}_${ARCH}.tar.gz"
chmod +x kubectl-neo4j
sudo mv kubectl-neo4j /usr/local/bin/

Windows is published for amd64 only, as kubectl-neo4j_${VERSION}_windows_amd64.zip rather than a .tar.gz (same checksums file).

git clone https://github.com/priyolahiri/neo4j-kubernetes-operator
cd neo4j-kubernetes-operator
make build-cli          # writes bin/kubectl-neo4j
export PATH="$PWD/bin:$PATH"

Anything named kubectl-* on your PATH becomes a kubectl subcommand, so once installed:

kubectl neo4j version
kubectl plugin list        # should list kubectl-neo4j

It also runs standalone as kubectl-neo4j if you prefer.