Why k3s? Installing Kubernetes on 5 Laptops with a Single curl Command
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The hardware was provisioned. MAAS had PXE-booted four ThinkPads and cloud-init had written the SSH keys and hostnames. The next question was: how do you actually get Kubernetes running on five laptops?
There are more ways to install Kubernetes than there are Kubernetes certification paths. I ended up with k3s. Here is why — and exactly what the installation looked like.