Homebrew Tap for installing the CLI?
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Since Mar 7, 2025.
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Description
### What problem are you trying to solve?
I would like to provide an easy way for my team to install the Linkerd CLI on their laptops. Curl | Bash is not something I really want to encourage but seems to be the only documented way to install the CLI at the moment.
### How should the problem be solved?
Homebrew is well supported on Mac and Linux. Tools like Flux provide a 3rd party tap to enable you to install their CLI, which can be easily updated as part of the project's CI/CD without having to make a pull request against Homebrew's repository or dealing with their rules on open source licences.
https://docs.brew.sh/Taps
https://fluxcd.io/flux/installation/#install-the-flux-cli
It would be possible to have different taps for the Buoyant Enterprise release and the Linkerd Edge releases.
### Any alternatives you've considered?
Not at this stage, but I'm sure I'll hear about some having opened this ticket
### How would users interact with this feature?
_No response_
### Would you like to work on this feature?
maybe
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