K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

• k3s

  291 26,405 9.6 Go

  Lightweight Kubernetes

  

K3s' go.mod[0] is insane.

[0] https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/go.mod

• azure-k3s-cluster

  2 51 0.0 Makefile

  An Azure template to deploy a lightweight Kubernetes cluster using k3s.io

If anyone wants a ready-to-go Azure template to play around, here you go:

https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster

(I tweak this every now and then since I both used it as a training sample for my customers/peers and as a way to run my own batch processes as cheap as possible)

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• deckhouse

  9 1,010 9.9 Go

  Kubernetes platform from Flant

  

And while k3s sounds easy, it's not after even a slightly larger scale.

If one willing to have in-house k8s today I would recommend https://deckhouse.io/ (I'm not affiliated with them)

• colima

  110 16,793 8.2 Go

  Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

On my M1 Pro system, I have nothing but positive things to say about the experience of using Colima (https://github.com/abiosoft/colima). Quick to set up and fast to use.

• minikube

  78 28,330 10.0 Go

  Run Kubernetes locally

  

If you're just messing around, just use kind (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io) or minikube if you want VMs (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io). Both work on ARM-based platforms.

You can also use k3s; it's hella easy to get started with and it works great.

• kind

  182 12,767 8.9 Go

  Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

  

If you're just messing around, just use kind (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io) or minikube if you want VMs (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io). Both work on ARM-based platforms.

You can also use k3s; it's hella easy to get started with and it works great.

• talos

  43 5,302 9.7 Go

  Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.

  

I've been using a 3 nuc (actually Ryzen devices) k3s on SuSE MicroOS https://microos.opensuse.org/ for my homelab for a while, and I really like it. They made some really nice decisions on which parts of k8s to trim down and which Networking / LB / Ingress to use.

The option to use sqlite in place of etcd on an even lighter single node setup makes it super interesting for even lighter weight homelab container environment setups.

I even use it with Longhorn https://longhorn.io/ for shared block storage on the mini cluster.

If anyone uses it with MicroOS, just make sure you switch to kured https://kured.dev/ for the transactional-updates reboot method.

I'd love to compare it against Talos https://www.talos.dev/ but their lack of support for a persistent storage partition (only separate storage device) really hurts most small home / office usage I'd want to try.

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• ansible-libvirt-microos

  10 5 4.9 Shell

  An ansible role for spinning up a VM using microos

I've been using a 3 nuc (actually Ryzen devices) k3s on SuSE MicroOS https://microos.opensuse.org/ for my homelab for a while, and I really like it. They made some really nice decisions on which parts of k8s to trim down and which Networking / LB / Ingress to use.

The option to use sqlite in place of etcd on an even lighter single node setup makes it super interesting for even lighter weight homelab container environment setups.

I even use it with Longhorn https://longhorn.io/ for shared block storage on the mini cluster.

If anyone uses it with MicroOS, just make sure you switch to kured https://kured.dev/ for the transactional-updates reboot method.

I'd love to compare it against Talos https://www.talos.dev/ but their lack of support for a persistent storage partition (only separate storage device) really hurts most small home / office usage I'd want to try.

• longhorn

  77 5,568 9.4 Shell

  Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

  

I've been using a 3 nuc (actually Ryzen devices) k3s on SuSE MicroOS https://microos.opensuse.org/ for my homelab for a while, and I really like it. They made some really nice decisions on which parts of k8s to trim down and which Networking / LB / Ingress to use.

The option to use sqlite in place of etcd on an even lighter single node setup makes it super interesting for even lighter weight homelab container environment setups.

I even use it with Longhorn https://longhorn.io/ for shared block storage on the mini cluster.

If anyone uses it with MicroOS, just make sure you switch to kured https://kured.dev/ for the transactional-updates reboot method.

I'd love to compare it against Talos https://www.talos.dev/ but their lack of support for a persistent storage partition (only separate storage device) really hurts most small home / office usage I'd want to try.

• rd

  29 5,529 10.0 TypeScript

  Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop

  

So, please please solve this request here: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/18...

• kairos

  21 932 9.7 Go

  :penguin: The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge 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

• systemk

  4 153 4.1 Go

  Systemk is a systemd backend for the virtual-kubelet. Instead of starting containers, you start systemd units.

  

• k3sup

  58 5,850 7.1 Go

  bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀

• charts

  1 48 6.6 Mustache

  Helm Charts (by longhorn)

  

If you use longhorn, make sure to enable the network policies when installing the helm chart. These are (for some odd reason) disabled by default, which means ANY pod running on your cluster has full access to all the longhorn-manager, API, and all your volumes

https://github.com/longhorn/charts/blob/v1.5.x/charts/longho...

• hetzner-k3s

  45 1,360 8.7 Crystal

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

https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s

Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud the easiest way

• cluster-api-k3s

  4 127 7.2 Go

  Cluster API k3s

  

If you want to get an HA k3s cluster going quickly on your cloud-provider of choice: https://github.com/cluster-api-provider-k3s/cluster-api-k3s

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