diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/kexpand/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/kexpand/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a82c21b72e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/kexpand/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{ buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+
+buildGoPackage rec {
+  name = "kexpand-unstable-2017-05-12";
+
+  goPackagePath = "github.com/kopeio/kexpand";
+
+  subPackages = [ "." ];
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "kopeio";
+    repo = "kexpand";
+    rev = "c508a43a4e84410dfd30827603e902148c5c1f3c";
+    sha256 = "0946h74lsqnr1106j7i2w2a5jg2bbk831d7prlws4bb2kigfm38p";
+  };
+
+  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/kexpand/deps.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/kexpand/deps.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c049d9683cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/kexpand/deps.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# file generated from go.mod using vgo2nix (https://github.com/adisbladis/vgo2nix)
+[
+
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/ghodss/yaml";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/ghodss/yaml";
+      rev = "v1.0.0";
+      sha256 = "0skwmimpy7hlh7pva2slpcplnm912rp3igs98xnqmn859kwa5v8g";
+    };
+  }
+
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/golang/glog";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/golang/glog";
+      rev = "23def4e6c14b";
+      sha256 = "0jb2834rw5sykfr937fxi8hxi2zy80sj2bdn9b3jb4b26ksqng30";
+    };
+  }
+
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/cobra";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/cobra";
+      rev = "v0.0.3";
+      sha256 = "1q1nsx05svyv9fv3fy6xv6gs9ffimkyzsfm49flvl3wnvf1ncrkd";
+    };
+  }
+
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/pflag";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/pflag";
+      rev = "v1.0.3";
+      sha256 = "1cj3cjm7d3zk0mf1xdybh0jywkbbw7a6yr3y22x9sis31scprswd";
+    };
+  }
+
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/check.v1";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://gopkg.in/check.v1";
+      rev = "20d25e280405";
+      sha256 = "0k1m83ji9l1a7ng8a7v40psbymxasmssbrrhpdv2wl4rhs0nc3np";
+    };
+  }
+
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
+      rev = "v2.2.1";
+      sha256 = "0dwjrs2lp2gdlscs7bsrmyc5yf6mm4fvgw71bzr9mv2qrd2q73s1";
+    };
+  }
+]
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e89aec5807e..b4aeab6c0e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3592,6 +3592,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   kexectools = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/kexectools { };
 
+  kexpand = callPackage ../development/tools/kexpand { };
+
   keybase = callPackage ../tools/security/keybase {
     # Reasoning for the inherited apple_sdk.frameworks:
     # 1. specific compiler errors about: AVFoundation, AudioToolbox, MediaToolbox