Install Kubermeister

Kubermeister ships as a signed desktop application for macOS, Windows and Linux. Every build comes from a tagged release on GitHub, and the installers carry the version in their file name, so a download is always a specific release rather than whatever is current.

macOS

Homebrew

The cask is the least friction, and it keeps the app updated alongside everything else you install that way.

brew install --cask kubermeister/tap/kubermeister

To upgrade later:

brew upgrade --cask kubermeister

The installer

Download the .dmg for your architecture from the download page — mac-arm64 for Apple silicon, mac-x64 for Intel — open it and drag the app to Applications.

macOS builds are Developer ID signed and notarized, so the first launch opens without a right-click-to-open dance.

Windows

Download the .exe installer from the download page and run it.

Linux

Two formats are published, both x86-64:

AppImage — download it, mark it executable and run it. Nothing is installed.
Terminal window
```
chmod +x Kubermeister-*-linux-x86_64.AppImage
./Kubermeister-*-linux-x86_64.AppImage
```
.deb — for Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives.
Terminal window
```
sudo apt install ./Kubermeister-*-linux-amd64.deb
```

An AppImage installs no desktop entry until you integrate it, so the window carries its own icon rather than falling back to your desktop’s placeholder.

Verifying a download

Each release lists its assets on the releases page. Assets are uploaded one at a time and read back to check their size and checksum before the update feed is written, so a release you can see is a release whose files are complete.

Updating

Kubermeister updates itself. By default it downloads a new version in the background and installs it when you quit, because the app releases often and an announcement waiting on a click is a fix that never lands. You can change that to check-only or turn it off entirely — see updates.

Point it at a cluster: connecting to a cluster.