Release Windows binaries in zip archive instead of .tar.gz

[mloskot]

Eschewed features

• This issue is not requesting templating, unstuctured edits, build-time side-effects from args or env vars, or any other eschewed feature.

What would you like to have added?

I have proposed package with kustomize to winget - official package manager for Windows, see microsoft/winget-pkgs#101695

Unfortunately, winget only supports zip archive or raw exe as portable 'installer', see microsoft/winget-cli#2899

So, the packaging of kustomize is currently blocked.

Why is this needed?

There already are several Kubernetes toools packaged for winget: kubectl and kompose, and minikube too.
It would be awesome if the kustomize joined in and be offered to install on Windows with the simple winget command:

winget install --id Kubernetes.kubectl

The other tools are available to download as plain .exe files:

• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/k/Kubernetes/kubectl/1.26.3/Kubernetes.kubectl.installer.yaml#L13
• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/a4cf5332206b4fc0237fbb482fed8e1a87a8b043/manifests/k/Kubernetes/kompose/1.28.0/Kubernetes.kompose.installer.yaml#L11

It would be very helpful if kustomize.exe was also available like those two.

Can you accomplish the motivating task without this feature, and if so, how?

No.

What other solutions have you considered?

None exist.

Anything else we should know?

No response

Feature ownership

• I am interested in contributing this feature myself! 🎉

[mloskot]

I did a test using kubectl.exe 49 MB compressing it to 14 MB .zip and 14 MB .gz and 10 MB .xy
Yes, .xy offers best compression, but .zip is already the download size improvement and it would allow packaging for winget.

[KnVerey]

/triage accepted
/priority important-longterm

It looks like there is a format_overrides option for the go-releaser configuration that would allow us to do this:

    # Can be used to change the archive formats for specific GOOSs.
    # Most common use case is to archive as zip on Windows.
    format_overrides:
      - goos: windows
        format: zip

This would go in our go-releaser configuration here: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/releasing/run-goreleaser.sh#L109

And instructions for testing that configuration are here: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/tree/master/releasing#testing-changes-to-the-release-pipeline

/assign @nathanmartins

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In response to this:

/triage accepted
/priority important-longterm

It looks like there is a format_overrides option for the go-releaser configuration that would allow us to do this:

   # Can be used to change the archive formats for specific GOOSs.
   # Most common use case is to archive as zip on Windows.
   format_overrides:
     - goos: windows
       format: zip

This would go in our go-releaser configuration here: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/releasing/run-goreleaser.sh#L109

And instructions for testing that configuration are here: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/tree/master/releasing#testing-changes-to-the-release-pipeline

/assign @nathanmartins

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[nathanmartins]

/assign @nathanmartins

[natasha41575]

This will need to wait for #5220 to be completed first.