macOS Catalina: "eksctl" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

[rodrigc]

On macOS Catalina 10.15, I downloaded the eksctl_Darwin_amd64.tar.gz for 0.12.0 from: https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases

when I tried to run it, I got this error message:

[rodrigc]

This is due to a new feature called Gatekeeper in macOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

You can follow the steps in that article to change the security settings so that you can run eksctl

[rodrigc]

Alternatively you can disable Gatekeeper in macOS:

http://osxdaily.com/2015/05/04/disable-gatekeeper-command-line-mac-osx/
https://www.hendrix.edu/HelpDesk/Computers_and_Devices/Mac_Computers/Disabling_and_Enabling_Gatekeeper_for_Mac_OS_X/

[rodrigc]

The Go team faced the same issue: golang/go#34986

[martina-if]

👍 Thanks @rodrigc I will close this but feel free to reopen it if you think there's any action needed.