Installation

aki is a single static binary with no runtime dependencies. Pick whichever channel fits your platform. Every method gives you the same aki command.

Go

If you have Go 1.26 or newer, install straight from source:

go install github.com/tamnd/aki/cmd/aki@latest

This builds the binary into $(go env GOPATH)/bin, so make sure that is on your PATH.

Homebrew (macOS and Linux)

brew install tamnd/tap/aki

To upgrade later:

brew upgrade aki

Scoop (Windows)

scoop bucket add tamnd https://github.com/tamnd/scoop-bucket
scoop install aki

Linux packages

Each release ships .deb, .rpm, and .apk packages for amd64 and arm64. Download the one for your distribution from the releases page and install it:

# Debian and Ubuntu
sudo dpkg -i aki_*_linux_amd64.deb

# Fedora, RHEL, and friends
sudo rpm -i aki_*_linux_amd64.rpm

# Alpine
sudo apk add --allow-untrusted aki_*_linux_amd64.apk

Docker

The image is published to the GitHub Container Registry:

docker run --rm -p 6379:6379 -v "$PWD/data:/data" ghcr.io/tamnd/aki \
  server --dbfile /data/data.aki --addr 0.0.0.0:6379

The volume keeps your .aki file on the host so the data survives the container.

Prebuilt binaries

If you would rather not use a package manager, grab a prebuilt archive for your platform from the releases page, unpack it, and put the aki binary on your PATH. Builds are published for Linux, macOS, and Windows on both amd64 and arm64.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/tamnd/aki
cd aki
make build      # builds bin/aki

aki is pure Go with no cgo, so a plain go build ./cmd/aki works too.

Verify the install

aki version

You should see the version, commit, and build date. Now run the quick start.