Install rqlite

Prebuilt binaries are available for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. rqlite can also be built for many target CPUs, including x86, AMD, MIPS, RISC, PowerPC, and ARM. You can find prebuilt binaries on the rqlite GitHub releases page.

Platforms

Linux

The quickest way to install rqlite on Linux is the install script, which downloads the latest release for your architecture and installs it:

curl -fsSL https://rqlite.io/install.sh | sh

By default, this installs into /usr/local/bin. Two environment variables let you control it:

RQLITE_VERSION=v10.6.4 INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/bin sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://rqlite.io/install.sh)"

Docker

docker run -p 4001:4001 rqlite/rqlite

Check out the rqlite Docker page for more details on running rqlite nodes via Docker.

GitHub Container Registry

docker pull ghcr.io/rqlite/rqlite

Chainguard

Chainguard provides security-hardened rqlite container images, including a FIPS variant for environments with strict security and compliance requirements.

• rqlite Chainguard image
• rqlite FIPS Chainguard image

These images are maintained independently by Chainguard and require access to its container registry. The rqlite project is not involved in building them.

Homebrew

brew install rqlite

Windows

You can download the Windows release on the GitHub releases page. Alternatively, the latest top-of-tree build is also available for download from AppVeyor.

What’s included?

An rqlite release includes two key binaries:

• rqlited: the rqlite server.
• rqlite: a command-line tool for interacting with rqlite.

Depending on the packaging process, a simple benchmarking tool, rqbench, may also be included.