Top 13 Go Installer Projects

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1. kubeadm

   1 11 3,875 7.8 Go

   Aggregator for issues filed against kubeadm

   

   Project mention: Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-IP | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-17

   Yep - my understanding of https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/blob/main/docs/ha-cons... is that Kubernetes doesn't usually control that load balancer (nor should it, since you could accidentally tell Kubernetes to take down the control plane LB, then not be able to get it back up again!).

   I suppose one could set up a "fast pass lane" kubeconfig that adds a header that haproxy would understand, and route to a priority class in its queue with e.g. https://www.haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-configuration-... . But there's no easy `kubectl --with-priority` (or, to my knowledge, good guidelines for the various gitops solutions) that follows this pattern out of the box.

2. Stream

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3. kubekey

   2 3 2,608 8.2 Go

   Install Kubernetes/K3s only, both Kubernetes/K3s and KubeSphere, and related cloud-native add-ons, it supports all-in-one, multi-node, and HA 🔥 ⎈ 🐳

   

   Project mention: Quick Deployment of High Availability Kubernetes 1.33.0 Cluster Based on KubeKey 3.1.9 | dev.to | 2025-05-30

   curl -sSL https://get-kk.kubesphere.io | sh - # Alternatively download via: https://github.com/kubesphere/kubekey/releases/download/v3.1.9/kubekey-v3.1.9-linux-amd64.tar.gz

4. sealer

   3 3 2,067 4.5 Go

   Build, Share and Run Both Your Kubernetes Cluster and Distributed Applications (Project under CNCF)

   

5. eget

   4 15 1,311 5.7 Go

   Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.

   

   Project mention: Gah – CLI to install software from GitHub Releases | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-11

   There's also https://github.com/zyedidia/eget, which is also written in Go.

6. hermit

   5 5 678 8.5 Go

   🐚 Hermit manages isolated, self-bootstrapping sets of tools in software projects. (by cashapp)

   

   Project mention: A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18

   I've been using Hermit to install uv, then pointing scripts at $REPO_ROOT/bin/uv. That gives you a repo where the scripts can be run directly after cloning (Hermit is smart enough to install itself if necessary).

   Unfortunately, Hermit doesn't do Windows, although I'm pretty sure that's because the devs don't have Windows machines: PRs welcome.

   https://github.com/cashapp/hermit

7. zap

   6 17 536 2.3 Go

   :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager (by srevinsaju)

   

8. binenv

   7 4 396 6.9 Go

   One binary to rule them all. Manage all those pesky binaries (kubectl, helm, terraform, ...) easily.

   

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

10. exwrap

    8 1 54 7.5 Go

    Turn any application written in any programming language into an executable.

    

    Project mention: ExWrap: Turn any application written built in any language into an executable | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-08

11. instl

    9 2 51 9.5 Go

    🤖 Instl is an installation script generator for GitHub projects. It does not need any setup, and can be used to install most GitHub projects on Linux, macOS and Windows.

    

12. linux-installer

    10 2 40 3.5 Go

    Graphical Linux application installer for audiences that are used to Windows installers. Imitates the look-and-feel of NSIS/Wizard97. (by grandchild)

    

13. goup

    11 5 36 4.2 Go

    Command to install or update Go on macOS, BSD or Linux

    

14. Albius

    12 0 23 5.2 Go

    A Linux installer backend with support for SquashFS and OCI installations

    

15. godownloader

    13 2 13 0.7 Go

    🔧 The version with Homebrew. (by kamilsk)

    

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