Install

  1. Ducktape requires python 3.7 or later.
  2. Install cryptography (used by paramiko which Ducktape depends on), this may have non-python external requirements

  • OSX (if needed):

    brew install openssl

  • Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev

  • Fedora and RHEL-derivatives:

    sudo yum install gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel

  1. As a general rule, it’s recommended to use an isolation tool such as virtualenv

  2. Install Ducktape:

    pip install ducktape

Note

On OSX you may need to:

C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/opt/openssl/include LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib pip install ducktape

If you are not using a virtualenv and get the error message failed with error code 1, you may need to install ducktape to your user directory instead with

pip install --user ducktape