Installation

Stable release

Binaries and packages of the latest stable release are available at https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases.

Development branch

For the adventurous, unstable features are available in the main branch, which you can install from source:

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/getsops/sops/
$ git clone https://github.com/getsops/sops.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/getsops/sops/
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/getsops/sops/
$ make install

(requires Go >= 1.25)

If you don't have Go installed, set it up with:

$ {apt,yum,brew} install golang
$ echo 'export GOPATH=~/go' >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc
$ mkdir $GOPATH

Or whatever variation of the above fits your system and shell.

To use SOPS as a library, take a look at the decrypt package.