Install

Install Telepresence by running the commands below for your OS. If you are not the administrator of your cluster, you will need administrative RBAC permissions to install and use Telepresence in your cluster.

GNU/Linux

# 1. Download the latest binary (~50 MB):
sudo curl -fL https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/linux/amd64/latest/telepresence -o /usr/local/bin/telepresence

# 2. Make the binary executable:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/telepresence

macOS

# Intel Macs

# Install via brew:
brew install datawire/blackbird/telepresence

# OR install manually:
# 1. Download the latest binary (~60 MB):
sudo curl -fL https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/darwin/amd64/latest/telepresence -o /usr/local/bin/telepresence

# 2. Make the binary executable:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/telepresence

# Apple silicon Macs

# Install via brew:
brew install datawire/blackbird/telepresence-arm64

# OR Install manually:
# 1. Download the latest binary (~60 MB):
sudo curl -fL https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/darwin/arm64/latest/telepresence -o /usr/local/bin/telepresence

# 2. Make the binary executable:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/telepresence

Windows

# Windows is in Developer Preview, here is how you can install it:
# Make sure you run the following from Powershell as Administrator
# 1. Download the latest windows zip containing telepresence.exe and its dependencies (~50 MB):
curl -fL https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/windows/amd64/latest/telepresence.zip -o telepresence.zip

# 2. Unzip the zip file to a suitable directory + cleanup zip
Expand-Archive -Path telepresence.zip
Remove-Item 'telepresence.zip'
cd telepresence

# 3. Run the install-telepresence.ps1 to install telepresence's dependencies. It will install telepresence to
# C:\telepresence by default, but you can specify a custom path $path with -Path $path
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process
.\install-telepresence.ps1

# 4. Remove the unzipped directory
cd ..
Remove-Item telepresence
# 5. Close your current Powershell and open a new one. Telepresence should now be usable as telepresence.exe

What's Next?

Follow one of our quick start guides to start using Telepresence, either with our sample app or in your own environment.

Installing nightly versions of Telepresence

We build and publish the contents of the default branch, release/v2, of Telepresence nightly, Monday through Friday, for macOS (Intel and Apple silicon), Linux, and Windows.

The tags are formatted like so: vX.Y.Z-nightly-$gitShortHash.

vX.Y.Z is the most recent release of Telepresence with the patch version (Z) bumped one higher. For example, if our last release was 2.3.4, nightly builds would start with v2.3.5, until a new version of Telepresence is released.

$gitShortHash will be the short hash of the git commit of the build.

Use these URLs to download the most recent nightly build.

GNU/Linux

https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/linux/amd64/nightly/telepresence

macOS

# Intel Macs
https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/darwin/amd64/nightly/telepresence

# Apple silicon Macs
https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/darwin/arm64/nightly/telepresence

Windows

https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/windows/amd64/nightly/telepresence.zip

Installing older versions of Telepresence

Use these URLs to download an older version for your OS (including older nightly builds), replacing x.y.z with the versions you want.

GNU/Linux

https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/linux/amd64/x.y.z/telepresence

macOS

# Intel Macs
https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/darwin/amd64/x.y.z/telepresence

# Apple silicon Macs
https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/darwin/arm64/x.y.z/telepresence

Windows

https://app.getambassador.io/download/tel2/windows/amd64/x.y.z/telepresence