k3sup VS rancher

Compare k3sup vs rancher and see what are their differences.

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k3sup rancher
58 89
5,835 22,497
- 0.7%
7.1 9.9
4 days ago 3 days ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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k3sup

Posts with mentions or reviews of k3sup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
  • K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
  • Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Sep 2023
    # Maintainer: Talha Altinel pkgname=k3sup pkgver=0.13.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='A tool to bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s' arch=('x86_64') url='https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup' license=('MIT') depends=('glibc' 'openssh') makedepends=('git' 'go>=1.20') source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz") sha256sums=('24939844ac6de581eb05ef6425c89c32b2d0e22800f1344c19b2164eec846c92') _commit=('1d2e443ea56a355cc6bd0a14a8f8a2661a72f2e8') build() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" export CGO_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" export CGO_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" export CGO_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" export CGO_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" export GOFLAGS="-buildmode=pie -trimpath -mod=readonly -modcacherw" go build \ -ldflags "-s -w -X github.com/alexellis/k3sup/cmd.Version=$pkgver -X github.com/alexellis/k3sup/cmd.GitCommit=$_commit" \ -o k3sup \ . for shell in bash fish zsh; do ./k3sup completion "$shell" > "$shell-completion" done } package() { cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" install -Dm755 -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin" k3sup mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/" mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/" mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/" install -Dm644 bash-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/k3sup" install -Dm644 fish-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/k3sup.fish" install -Dm644 zsh-completion "$pkgdir/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_k3sup" install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" LICENSE }
  • Fastest way to set up an k8s environment ?
    13 projects | /r/kubernetes | 31 May 2023
  • How do you archive your side hobby projects?
    1 project | /r/csMajors | 22 Apr 2023
    I recommend learning docker first, then pick a vps host from vpsbenchmarks, then use k3sup to deploy a kubernetes cluster on that, then follow a getting-started kubernetes tutorial from there. You'll also want to buy a domain name with tld-list and then provision a TLS certificate with cert-manager and letsencrypt (skip steps 1-4 because Google Cloud is overpriced).
  • What do you use as a kubernetes base?
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 13 Apr 2023
    I just installed k3s yesterday using k3sup on 6 VMs (3 masters, 3 workers) each with 2GB RAM ( limited by the actual RAM on hardware, for now ) with Ubuntu 22.04 as the base OS.
  • How to create cluster?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Apr 2023
  • What's a cheap way to setup your own Kubernetes cluster locally or remote?
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 10 Apr 2023
    k3s installed with k3sup, longhorn for storage, kube-vip for API VIP, and MetalLB for service load balancer using local subnet, and of course Rancher.
  • Docker: We’re No Longer Sunsetting the Free Team Plan
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2023
    My applause to Alex Ellis for writing a clear, direct call to arms!

    Their work is super useful and interesting. I've added them to my list of sponsorships: https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis

  • Easiest way to provision and configure ephemeral cluster locally
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Feb 2023
    Yeah, this is the answer, but I would use this with K3S: https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup
  • Despliega un clĂșster de Kubernetes en segundos con k3sup
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Jan 2023
    $ curl -sLS https://get.k3sup.dev | sh x86_64 Downloading package https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup/releases/download/0.12.12/k3sup as /home/ec2-user/k3sup Download complete. ============================================================ The script was run as a user who is unable to write to /usr/local/bin. To complete the installation the following commands may need to be run manually. ============================================================ sudo cp k3sup /usr/local/bin/k3sup ================================================================ alexellis's work on k3sup needs your support https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis ================================================================ No nos devolverĂĄ nada, pero podremos correr lo siguiente para saber si k3sup efectivamente se instalo:

rancher

Posts with mentions or reviews of rancher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-25.
  • OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
    28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2023
  • Kubernetes / Rancher 2, mongo-replicaset with Local Storage Volume deployment
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 14 Jun 2023
    I follow the 4 ABCD steps bellow, but the first pod deployment never ends. What's wrong in it? Logs and result screens are at the end. Detailed configuration can be found here.
  • Trouble with RKE2 HA Setup: Part 2
    2 projects | /r/rancher | 8 May 2023
  • Critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-22651) in Rancher 2.7.2 - Update to 2.7.3
    1 project | /r/rancher | 24 Apr 2023
    CVE-2023-22651 is rated 9.9/10 : https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-6m9f-pj6w-w87g
  • What's your take if DevOps colleague always got new initiative / idea?
    1 project | /r/devops | 17 Apr 2023
    Depends. When I came into my last company I immediately noticed the lack of reproducible environments. Brought this up a few times and was met with some resistance because "we didn't have the capacity"... Until prod went down and it took us 23 hours to bring it back up due to spaghetti terraform.
  • Questions about Rancher Launched/imported AKS
    1 project | /r/rancher | 14 Apr 2023
    For the latest releases of rancher: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases When is Rancher 2.7.1 going to be released? The Rancher support matrix for 2.7.1 shows k8s v1.24.6 as the highest supported version and Azure will drop AKS v1.24 in a few months... Should this be a concern for us? What could happen if we create our cluster with Rancher for an unsupported K8s version? 1.25 for example. - Rancher 2.7.2 just got released including support for 1.25. I have however tested running unsupported versions before, unless there is major deprecations in the kubernetes API it is fine in my experience. If we move to AKS imported clusters, in case we add node pools, and upgrade the cluster, will those changes be reflected in the Rancher Platform? - Yep! If we face some issues by running an unsupported K8s version on Rancher Launched K8s clusters, is it possible to remove it from Rancher, do the stuff we need, and then import it into the platform? - Yes, however be careful and do testing before doing in prod. From top of mind: Remove cluster from rancher (if imported), if rancher created you might want to revoke ranchers SA key for the cluster first (so it can't remove it). Delete the cattle-system namespace, and any other cattle-* namespaces you don't want to keep. And do your thing. It looks like AKS is faster than Rancher regarding supported Kubernetes versions... We would like to know if Rancher will always be on track with AKS regarding the removal of K8s version support and new versions. - In my experience yes. (Been using rancher on all three clouds for a 4 years now). What are exactly the big differences between imported AKS and Rancher-launched AKS? What should we look at, and what issues can we face when using one or another? - The main difference is that rancher will not be able to upgrade the cluster for you. You will have to do that yourself.
  • rancher2_bootstrap.admin resource fail after Kubernetes v1.23.15
    1 project | /r/rancher | 29 Mar 2023
    variable "rancher" { type = object({ namespace = string version = string branch = string chart_set = list(object({ name = string value = string })) }) default = { namespace = "cattle-system" # There is a bug with destroying the cloud credentials in version 2.6.9 until 2.7.1 and will be fixed in next release 2.7.2. # See https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/39300 version = "2.7.0" branch = "stable" chart_set = [ { name = "replicas" value = 3 }, { name = "ingress.ingressClassName" value = "nginx-external" }, { name = "ingress.tls.source" value = "rancher" }, # There is a bug with the uninstallation of Rancher due to missing priorityClassName of rancher-webhook # The priorityClassName need to be set # See https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/40935 { name = "priorityClassName" value = "system-node-critical" } ] } description = "Rancher Helm chart properties." }
  • Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow
    1 project | /r/Futurology | 22 Mar 2023
    When I searched DuckDuckGo instead, the 12th link actually had the real answer. It's in this issue on Rancher's GitHub. Turns out the Rancher admin needs to be in all of the Keycloak groups they want to have show up in the auto-populated picklist in Rancher. Being a Keycloak admin and even creating the groups isn't good enough. Frustratingly, the "caveat" note the Rancher guy is pointing to that says this is only present in the guide to setting up Keycloak for SAML, but apparently this is also true for OIDC.
  • How to enable TLS 1.3 protocol
    1 project | /r/networking | 14 Mar 2023
    Explicitly set TLS 1.3 in Rancher, though it could be a bug in Rancher: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/35654
  • Rancher deployment, hanging on login and setup pages
    1 project | /r/rancher | 23 Feb 2023
    Thanks. Yeah looks like this might work: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/releases/tag/v2.7.2-rc3

What are some alternatives?

When comparing k3sup and rancher you can also consider the following projects:

k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

k3s-ansible

lens - Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

talos - Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

truecharts - Community App Catalog for TrueNAS SCALE [Moved to: https://github.com/truecharts/charts]

kubesphere - The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management ⎈ đŸ–„ ☁

longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

cluster-api - Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster