K3s

Specification

Prerequisites

• Quickstart completed
• Select a k3s kubernetes version to set for the kubernetes version
• Installed k3s bootstrap provider into your management cluster
  • Add the following to ~/.cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml for the k3s bootstrap/control plane providers

    providers:
      - name: "k3s"
        url: https://github.com/k3s-io/cluster-api-k3s/releases/latest/bootstrap-components.yaml
        type: "BootstrapProvider"
      - name: "k3s"
        url: https://github.com/k3s-io/cluster-api-k3s/releases/latest/control-plane-components.yaml
        type: "ControlPlaneProvider"
        
    

  • Install the k3s provider into your management cluster

    clusterctl init --bootstrap k3s --control-plane k3s
    

Usage

1. Generate cluster yaml

   clusterctl generate cluster test-cluster \
       --kubernetes-version v1.29.1+k3s2 \
       --infrastructure linode-linode \
       --flavor k3s > test-k3s-cluster.yaml
   

2. Apply cluster yaml

   kubectl apply -f test-k3s-cluster.yaml