The purpose of this tool is to generate (a part of) Gopkg.toml file that can be fed to the dep package manager in a project that wants to use Kubernetes' libraries compatible with a particular Kubernetes version and among each other.

The huge benefit is that exactly the same dependency revisions are used. That means the set of dependency versions that you get have been tested by Kubernetes unit, integration and end-to-end tests plus real world usage so it is guaranteed to work.

Managing constraints and/or overrides by hand is a huge PITA so why not generate them?

See the compatibility-matrix to get an overview, which client-go version works with what Kubernetes release.

1. Install the binary from this repository:

   go get -u github.com/ash2k/kubegodep2dep

2. Run the tool:

   kubegodep2dep -kube-branch release-1.13 -client-go-branch release-10.0 > Gopkg-new.toml

   You can use -godep to pass another Godep.json other than the default file into the tool. URLs are supported as input, too.

3. Add other dependencies that your project needs and use dep ensure to pull them all down.