On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:26:21AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I maintain a bunch of Kubernetes clusters as part of my job. Those > clusters are run by other people (cloud providers, data centers, etc.). I > need clients to talk to those clusters. When I first started working with > Kubernetes, I realized I needed a client, worried about how much of a pain > that would be, did an apt-cache search for kubernetes, found > kubernetes-client, breathed a sigh of relief, and ran apt install > kubernetes-client. I have subsequently not given Kubernetes clients a > second thought. > In priciple, the kubectl compatibility matrix says it only supports one minor version (older or newer). When you working with many clusters, the cluster version may not be compatible with the kubectl version in Debian stable. PS, in practice, the basic function of kubectl doesn't change much, and new kubectl with old cluster seems to work. As a user of upstream kubectl package user, I'm quite happy with it. I can always install the latest, or any old version. They keep all old versions in their apt repo. And with the nature of static link, their repo works well other parts of the system, regardless I'm running Debian oldstable, stable, or unstable. IMO, we should admit that current Debian way doesn't fit well for such softwares.
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