You are asked to debug a production workload running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) from your company-issued Linux laptop. The Google Cloud SDK (gcloud CLI) is already installed and authenticated, but the kubectl binary is missing. Security policy forbids downloading executables directly from the internet; you must use only Google-provided package channels that are part of Cloud SDK. Which single command satisfies the requirement and installs the Kubernetes CLI so you can immediately interact with the cluster?
kubectl is distributed as an optional Cloud SDK component called "kubectl". Adding it with the gcloud component manager keeps the binary in the same installation tree, follows Cloud SDK update policies, and avoids downloading files from arbitrary URLs. The command "gcloud components install kubectl" installs that component. The get-credentials command merely configures kubeconfig and will fail if kubectl is absent. "apt-get install kubectl" and the curl method both retrieve the binary from external package sources, violating the stated constraint.
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