I went through the steps listed here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kops/

After moving the kops file to /usr/local/bin/ and renaming to kops, I tried to confirm if it was in fact installed and executable by trying 'kops --help' and 'kops --version'/'kops version' and neither command worked. Any idea what the issue might be?

Edit: Here's what I did step by step

1. curl -LO https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-darwin-amd64

2. sudo chmod x kops-darwin-amd64

3. sudo mv kops-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kops

It's a t2.micro Ubuntu 20.04 EC2 Instance.

Tried to confirm if kops was properly installed and executable by entering 'kops --help' and 'kops --version' and also 'kops version' but they all return this error:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/kops: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

CodePudding user response：

I think its because you are using kops-darwin-amd64. This is for mac. I think you should be using kops-linux-amd64 instead for linux.