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Downloads:

167,621

Downloads of v 0.208.0:

509

Last Update:

13 May 2025

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • eksctl.io

Tags:

eksctl eks kubernetes aws admin

eksctl

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0.208.0 | Updated: 13 May 2025

Downloads:

167,621

Downloads of v 0.208.0:

509

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • eksctl.io

eksctl 0.208.0

Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by eksctl.io. The inclusion of eksctl.io trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify eksctl.io goods or services and not for commercial purposes.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install eksctl, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade eksctl, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall eksctl, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade eksctl -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade eksctl -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install eksctl
  win_chocolatey:
    name: eksctl
    version: '0.208.0'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'eksctl' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '0.208.0'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller eksctl
{
    Name     = "eksctl"
    Version  = "0.208.0"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'eksctl':
  ensure   => '0.208.0',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

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This package was approved as a trusted package on 13 May 2025.

Description

eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's new managed Kubernetes service for EC2. It is written in Go, and uses CloudFormation.


tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1

$installDir = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
Write-Host "eksctl is going to be installed in '$installDir'"

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';

$packageArgs = @{
  packageName            = 'eksctl'
  url64bit               = 'https://github.com/eksctl-io/eksctl/releases/download/v0.208.0/eksctl_Windows_amd64.zip'
  checksum64             = 'c21104927fe8f0d5117a451dc385a2f5c1dba0cf1391061e95c4f11843b799cc'
  checksumType64         = 'sha256'
  unzipLocation          = $installDir
}
Install-ChocolateyZipPackage @packageArgs

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