kubekey
Install Kubernetes/K3s only, both Kubernetes/K3s and KubeSphere, and related cloud-native add-ons, it supports all-in-one, multi-node, and HA 🔥 ⎈ 🐳 (by kubesphere)
kairos
:penguin: The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes. (by kairos-io)
| kubekey | kairos | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 21 | |
| 2,107 | 940 | |
| 1.8% | 5.5% | |
| 9.1 | 9.7 | |
| 6 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
kubekey
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubekey.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-10.
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Install k8s on single node bare metal
I'm a total noob with kubs and I just did a rebuild of my cluster with 1.22.16 and found https://github.com/kubesphere/kubekey
- Which Kubernetes dashboards/tools/IDE's do you use for your k8s initiatives?
kairos
Posts with mentions or reviews of kairos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
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K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
I've been eyeing Kairos [1] which is an OS lifecycle management system for k3s which looks like a nice way to deploy k3s.
[1]: https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos
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Introducing Kairos 2.2.0: extended ARM support!
https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos updates!
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Are there any dedicated linux distros that come out of the box with k8s?
kairos.io – Turn your existing distro into an immutable OS with k8s. It is the logical successor of what k3os intended (kind of).
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What's the state of immutable distros? Do you use them?
Check out this TNS blog and Kairos blog about the Kairos project. It is a meta distribution, which addresses the issues around immutable distros at a more fundamental level while providing much more flexibility.
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How to create cluster?
Kairos could fit the bill here - I don't think it supports Windows but it does have a cool Network Boot project called AuroraBoot.
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(help) best minimal distro for master nodes
kairos.io
- Run Kubernetes easily on your homelab
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Poll ! What is your OS of choice to run k8s ON PREM ?
Did you heard about https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos ? It supports any base OS (Fedora, openSUSE, Alpine, Rockylinux, Ubuntu, ..), and follows strongly the same K3OS principles. It is immutable, with an A/B upgrading mechanism and it is container based so it is easy to customize to fit your needs. It is community-driven, with no strings attached to any distribution or vendor.
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Suggest container Linux distro go to deploy Kubernetes on a Bare Metal Server
Yes Kairos. KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution unrelated to Kubernetes.
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Introducing Kairos 1.5: A Smarter, More Secure Way to Manage Your Infrastructure
up to now we have MetalLB and Kubevirt, but here is a list of the ones that were brought up by the community (and planning to add): https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos/issues/592, feel free to add your feedback and tell what you would like to see there!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kubekey and kairos you can also consider the following projects:
rancher - Complete container management platform
homelab - Monorepo for my personal homelab
k3sup - bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀
talos - Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
lens - Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes
kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
eks-anywhere - Run Amazon EKS on your own infrastructure 🚀
proxmox-k8s
kapp - kapp is a simple deployment tool focused on the concept of "Kubernetes application" — a set of resources with the same label
k3os - Purpose-built OS for Kubernetes, fully managed by Kubernetes.
kubernetes-k8s - 🖊️ Some notes about Kubernetes (k8s), Docker, Storage.
elemental-toolkit - :snowflake: The toolkit to build, ship and maintain cloud-init driven Linux derivatives based on container images