k3sup VS rke2

Compare k3sup vs rke2 and see what are their differences.

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k3sup rke2
58 26
5,850 1,346
- 5.2%
7.1 9.3
12 days ago 8 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 clĂşster 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 devolverá nada, pero podremos correr lo siguiente para saber si k3sup efectivamente se instalo:

rke2

Posts with mentions or reviews of rke2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
  • Deploy Nginx Load Balancer for Rancher
    1 project | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024
  • Install RKE2 with Cilium and Metallb
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    In this essay, we showed how to use Rancher rke2 to deploy a Kubernetes cluster with 6 Debian nodes with firewall enabled. We've also covered deploying Cilium as a CNI for our cluster and have it completely replace kube-proxy so as to increase speed and gain more observability via Cilium tools. This article also showed how to deploy Metallb to manage IP pools and load balance traffic for those IP pools. Throughout this guide, we assumed that we have an external load balancer that will distribute traffic to our workload and control plane nodes. For further information please visit rke2 official documents: "https://docs.rke2.io/".
  • 5-Step Approach: Projectsveltos for Kubernetes add-on deployment and management on RKE2
    5 projects | dev.to | 18 Dec 2023
    In this blog post, we will demonstrate how easy and fast it is to deploy Sveltos on an RKE2 cluster with the help of ArgoCD, register two RKE2 Cluster API (CAPI) clusters and create a ClusterProfile to deploy Prometheus and Grafana Helm charts down the managed CAPI clusters.
  • OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
    28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2023
    Did something happen to the Apache 2 rancher? https://github.com/rancher/rancher/blob/v2.7.5/LICENSE RKE2 is similarly Apache 2: https://github.com/rancher/rke2/blob/v1.26.7%2Brke2r1/LICENS...
  • Self-hosted Serverless with Kubernetes for a Small Team
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 6 May 2023
  • Just finished migrating my old tower servers to a Kubernetes cluster on my new rack!
    19 projects | /r/homelab | 21 Jan 2023
    To provision all of my clusters, I use Rancher with RKE2. The primary Rancher server is hosted on a bootstrapped RKE2 cluster running on a VPS.
  • Golang is evil on shitty networks
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2022
    Golang has burned me more than once with bizarre design decisions that break things in a user hostile way.

    The last one we ran into was a change in Go 1.15 where servers that presented a TLS certificate with the hostname encoded into the CN field instead of the more appropriate SAN field always fail validation.

    The behavior could be disabled however that functionality was removed in 1.18 with no way to opt back into the old behavior. I understand why SAN is the right way to do it but in this case I didn’t control the server.

    Developers at Google probably never have to deal with 3rd parties with shitty infrastructure but a lot of us do.

    Here’s a bug in rke that’s related https://github.com/rancher/rke2/issues/775

  • Documentation on how to deploy an RKE2 cluster with rancher?
    1 project | /r/rancher | 20 Dec 2022
  • K3s or RKE2?
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 10 Dec 2022
    just looking at this myself. I think k3s has more support for arm, but looking through the github repo there are a lot of bugs indicating its a mess. RKE2 seems to be their big push, they also have a github issue open that has been open for the last 2 releases that they are going to add a update path from k3s to rke2. https://github.com/rancher/rke2/issues/881
  • Best way to install and use kubernetes for learning
    19 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Nov 2022
    RKE (https://rancher.com/docs/rke) and RKE2 (https://docs.rke2.io/) from Rancher folks

What are some alternatives?

When comparing k3sup and rke2 you can also consider the following projects:

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

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

k3s-ansible

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

hetzner-k3s - A CLI tool to create and manage Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner Cloud using the lightweight distribution k3s by Rancher.

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

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

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

ansible-role-k3s - Ansible role for deploying k3s cluster

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

manifesto - The OpenTF Manifesto expresses concern over HashiCorp's switch of the Terraform license from open-source to the Business Source License (BSL) and calls for the tool's return to a truly open-source license.