Provide a simple download link for iofogctl

[ctron]

In the installation instructions of iofogctl I can't find any simple download link for the Linux binary.

See: https://iofog.org/docs/2/iofogctl/download.html

And I don't want to run some shell script with sudo access directly from curl.

As you provided the link for Windows, I think it makes sense to do the same for Linux and Mac OS X.

Just like others do it as well: https://github.com/helm/helm/releases

[Pixcell]

@ctron I understand the reticency to run a script using sudo. However this is standard practice if you want to use your linux package manager to install iofogctl and be able to manage updates. We haven't written this script ourselves, it is provided by our cloud package provider (https://packagecloud.io/)

Here are the manual installation steps: https://packagecloud.io/iofog/iofogctl/install#manual-deb

We should probably add those as an option in our documention

[ctron]

"Standard practice" is a bit far fetched. Yes, a package manager like RPM is standard practice. "curling" and running scripts as sudo however is not.

Maybe take some inspiration from the kubectl tools: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/

• The first option is a plain download link
• The second option is a native package manager, including a transparent process to add the channel (including keys)

Also other tools, simply provide a download link (no root access required):

• https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.7.0
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/releases/tag/kustomize%2Fv4.3.0
• https://github.com/knative/client/releases/tag/v0.26.0

So if you want to make it easy, provide a simple download link. Additional options maybe helpful, but might also cause more problems.

[sergerad]

@ctron currently working on it. If you want to download a dev binary in the meantime:

https://storage.googleapis.com/iofogctl/linux/dev/3.0/iofogctl

[sergerad]

Staging iofog.org is updated with instructions to install release binary: http://iofog.staging.edgeworx.io/docs/3/iofogctl/download.html#install-iofogctl-on-linux

[ctron]

This is definitely an improvement. But what speaks against using plain and simple GitHub releases downloads?