Install and Set Up kubectl on Windows — Install kubectl convert plugin

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Download the latest release with the command Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell curl.exe -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v{{< skew currentPatchVersion >}}/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl-convert.exe" ``` Validate the binary (optional). Download the kubectl-convert checksum file Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell curl.exe -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/v{{< skew currentPatchVersion >}}/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl-convert.exe.sha256" ``` Validate the kubectl-convert binary against the checksum file Using Command Prompt to manually compare CertUtil's output to the checksum file downloaded Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```cmd CertUtil -hashfile kubectl-convert.exe SHA256 type kubectl-convert.exe.sha256 ``` Using PowerShell to automate the verification using the -eq operator to get a True or False result Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell $($(CertUtil -hashfile .\kubectl-convert.exe SHA256)[1] -replace " ", "") -eq $(type .\kubectl-convert.exe.sha256) ``` Append or prepend the kubectl-convert binary folder to your PATH environment variable. Verify the plugin is successfully installed. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl convert --help ``` If you do not see an error, it means the plugin is successfully installed. After installing the plugin, clean up the installation files Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```powershell del kubectl-convert.exe del kubectl-convert.exe.sha256 ``` Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.