metallb VS k3sup

Compare metallb vs k3sup and see what are their differences.

metallb

A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols (by metallb)

k3sup

bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀 (by alexellis)
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metallb k3sup
78 58
6,554 5,799
2.0% -
9.4 7.1
6 days ago 2 months ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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metallb

Posts with mentions or reviews of metallb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.

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
  • 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
    I then provision k3s using k3sup - https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup it's trivial
    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:

What are some alternatives?

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

kube-vip - Kubernetes Control Plane Virtual IP and Load-Balancer

calico - Cloud native networking and network security

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

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

k3s-ansible

external-dns - Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services

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

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

cert-manager - Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

rancher - Complete container management platform

kube-plex - Scalable Plex Media Server on Kubernetes -- dispatch transcode jobs as pods on your cluster!

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