bootkube VS metalk8s

Bootkube - bootkube - Launch a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster kubectx + kubens - Switch faster between clusters and namespaces in kubectl kube-shell - Kubernetes shell: An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes kuttle: kubectl wrapper for sshuttle without SSH - Kubernetes wrapper for sshuttle kubectl sudo - Run kubernetes commands with the security privileges of another user K9s - Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style! Ktunnel - A cli that exposes your local resources to kubernetes KubeOperator - Run kubectl command in Web Browser. https://kubeoperator.io/ Vimkubectl - Manage any Kubernetes resource from Vim https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.ph KubeHelper - KubeHelper - simplifies many daily Kubernetes cluster tasks through a web interface.

I'm on my phone so this is going to be a brief reply, but it might be worth looking into metalk8s (https://github.com/scality/metalk8s). I've used it very successfully for an entirely offline k8s cluster. They've done a great job automating updates and management of a cluster.

kops - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management silver-surfer - Check ApiVersion compatibility and provide Migration path for Kubernetes objects when upgrading Kubernetes to latest versions Kube-ops-view - Kubernetes Operational View - read-only system dashboard for multiple K8s clusters kubeprompt - Kubernetes prompt info Metalk8s - An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes Clusterman - Cluster Autoscaler for Kubernetes and Mesos Cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates Goldilocks - Get your resource requests "Just Right" katafygio - Dump, or continuously backup Kubernetes objets as yaml files in git Rancher - Complete container management platform Sealed Secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets OpenKruise/Kruise - Automate application workloads management on Kubernetes https://openkruise.io kubectl snapshot - Take Cluster Snapshots kapp - simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label https://get-kapp.io keda - Event-driven autoscaler for Kubernetes Octant - To better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters Portainer - Portainer inside a Kubernetes environment Gardener - Deliver fully-managed clusters at scale everywhere with your own Kubernetes-as-a-Service Kubed - Kubernetes Cluster Operator Daemon Kubestack - Kubestack is the free and open-source GitOps framework to codify your custom platform stack using Terraform.

An 'easy' way to deploy a cluster could be using kubeadm. Then you'll need a CNI like Calico to get Pod networking up-and-running. However, you'll want to install a bunch of other software on said cluster to monitor it, manage logs,...

Given you're running on physical infrastructure, MetalK8s [1] could be of interest (full disclosure: I'm one of the leads of said project, which is fully open-source and used as part of our commercial enterprise storage products)

[1] https://github.com/scality/metalk8s