The Yugabyte DB Homebrew Tap

This is a custom Homebrew tap for official Yugabyte DB.

Setup

You can add the custom tap in a macOS terminal session using:

brew tap yugabyte/yugabytedb

Installing Formulae

Once the tap has been added locally, you can install individual software packages with:

brew install <formula>

For example:

• Install the latest available production release of YugabyteDB. This will currently install latest stable YugabyteDB 2.16.0.1 release:

brew install yugabytedb

• Install the latest 2.17.0.0 preview release of YugabyteDB:

brew install yugabytedb@2.17

• Install Yugabyte CLI tools :

brew install yugabytedb-client

• Install the latest 2.0.x release of Yugabyte CLI tools:

brew install yugabytedb-client@2.0

Start YugabyteDB cluster

After successful installation, you can start a local 1-node cluster using:

yugabyted start

For more commands and flags of YugabyteDB CLI, please refer to our docs page.

Updating YugabyteDB using brew

Update the internal list of brew formulae:

brew update

Ugrade YugabyteDB stable release using:

brew upgrade yugabytedb

You can also update YugabyteDB by again running:

brew install yugabytedb