Installation

Prerequisites

Nitric relies on functionality from the following projects to help retrieve plugins, containerize and deploy your application. Please follow these links to the official installation steps for each.

Git
Docker
Docker Buildx
Pulumi (for deployments, only needed if using the default providers)

When setting up docker on Linux be sure to follow the post-installation steps so you can run docker as a non-root user.

Installing the Nitric CLI

brew install nitrictech/tap/nitric

Manual Install

Alternatively, you can download pre-compiled binaries from the releases page and install them manually.

Update to the latest version

brew upgrade nitric

You can easily check which version you're on by running nitric version.

Release notes

You can view the CLI release notes on our CLI GitHub Releases page.

What's next

Start building with the quick start guide.
Checkout out the foundations section for a more detailed introduction to Nitric.