kURL vs k3os

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kURL		k3os
	Project
5	Mentions	25
718	Stars	3,489
0.6%	Growth	-
9.7	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Shell	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

kURL

Posts with mentions or reviews of kURL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-01.

Air gapped on prem install - what would you do?
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 1 Jul 2023

Wow, thanks! Yes, we created & maintain the kurl.sh project that OP mentioned (disclaimer: I work there). Our customers (HashiCorp, BigID, Smartbear etc) basically get all the tooling to do all of the commercial things the OP mentioned (combining it with Helm or KOTS our installer, Troubleshoot.sh for disconnected troubleshooting etc).
Looking for Tips on Open Sourcing a kubernetes security tool
8 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Oct 2022

Minikube might be helpful to get you started, but you might want some other self-hosted (kurl.sh) and managed (AKS, EKS, GKE) clusters to test against.
Any good howto set up your own full cluster?
7 projects | /r/kubernetes | 13 Aug 2022
Any Kubernetes provider you could recommend me?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 17 Jun 2022

You could use Vagrant and VirtualBox to deploy a single node using https://kurl.sh. You can build your own installer.
GitHub - replicatedhq/kURL: Production-grade, airgapped Kubernetes installer combining upstream k8s with overlays and popular components
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 21 Jul 2021

k3os

Posts with mentions or reviews of k3os. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023

I still don't forgive SUSE for buying Rancher and then unceremoniously killing k3os. They just left the website up and everything, made no announcement, made no attempt to help the community take over, just left the Github repo to rot: https://k3os.io/
Hard to have confidence in SUSE's commitment to another open source operating system side project after that. SUSE's announcement at the time:
Like SUSE, Rancher is 100% open source and equally as passionate as SUSE about true open source innovation, community empowerment, and customer success. SUSE and Rancher share the same goal – happy and satisfied customers.
https://www.suse.com/c/suse-acquires-rancher/
(help) best minimal distro for master nodes
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 29 Mar 2023

k3os is no longer supported by Rancher: https://github.com/rancher/k3os/issues/846 I've been keeping mine up to date with https://github.com/BlueKrypto/k3os
Here, there, and back again: personal K8S clusters?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 11 Feb 2023
Advice on rolling home setup to k3s from docker
1 project | /r/homelab | 4 Jan 2023

[0] https://docs.k3s.io/installation/ha-embedded [1] https://k3os.io/
Spin up a bare metal cluster in 2022
8 projects | /r/kubernetes | 4 Nov 2022

I (still) run k3os, but it's dead since SUSE bought rancher. (see https://github.com/rancher/k3os/issues/846)
v107 stable w/ 5.10 kernel
1 project | /r/pixel_slate | 4 Nov 2022

virt-install --install \ --memory 2048 \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant ubuntu20.04 \ --disk size=20 \ --graphics=none \ --name k3os \ kernel=https://github.com/rancher/k3os/releases/download/v0.21.5-k3s2r1/k3os-vmlinuz-amd64,initrd=https://github.com/rancher/k3os/releases/download/v0.21.5-k3s2r1/k3os-initrd-amd64,kernel_args='k3os.fallback_mode=install k3os.install.iso_url=https://github.com/rancher/k3os/releases/download/v0.21.5-k3s2r1/k3os-amd64.iso k3os.install.silent=true k3os.install.tty=ttyS0 console=ttyS0 k3os.install.device=/dev/vda k3os.password=hunter2'
Any good howto set up your own full cluster?
7 projects | /r/kubernetes | 13 Aug 2022

I'm personally fond of https://k3os.io for my small to medium hobby and professional clusters. It comes with a lot the bells and whistles, but is also pretty minimum and just scales easily.
What is going on with Kubernetes Microdistros?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 26 Jun 2022

I really liked K3OS, but I feel like Rancher is no longer supporting it. The last commit on the k3os repo is from April, and before those three commits, November of last year. When Rancher decided to move their HCI offering, Harvester, over to RancherOS V2 being based on cOS toolkit/OpenSuse, I don't have high hopes that K3OS will be maintained.
Which k8s are you using?
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 3 Apr 2022
Organization of Docker and VMs
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 19 Mar 2022

I run k3os on an old laptop with a broken screen.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kURL and k3os you can also consider the following projects:

cloud-native-platform - Repo for "How to build your own cloud-native platform on IaaS clouds in 2021"

proxmox-k8s

kubectl-node-restart - Krew plugin to restart Kubernetes Nodes sequentially and gracefully

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

kubetail - Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time

otomi-core - Self-hosted DevOps PaaS for Kubernetes

k3s-ansible - The easiest way to bootstrap a self-hosted High Availability Kubernetes cluster. A fully automated HA k3s etcd install with kube-vip, MetalLB, and more. Build. Destroy. Repeat.

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

awesome-kubernetes - A curated list for awesome kubernetes sources :ship::tada:

profanity - Ncurses based XMPP client

kube-linter - KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

terraform - Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.