K3sup Alternatives

k3sup reviews and mentions

• K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2026

  I used this for a bit a few years ago but eventually needed something that was hard or impossible in k3sup and just went to using the k3s tools directly. My deployment script actually got simpler after removing k3sup.

  Also, fun fact, k3sup is pronounced "ketchup" according to the README[0]

  [0]: https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup/blob/master/README.md

• 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

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