275  k3s(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

275.1 k3s

k3s - k3s — lightweight Kubernetes.

Layer OPS
Category o-02-compute-serving-infrastructure
Safety class safe
Licence Apache-2.0
Upstream github.com/k3s-io/k3s

275.1.1 NAME

k3s - k3s — lightweight Kubernetes.

275.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -
sudo kubectl get nodes

275.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

K3s - Lightweight Kubernetes =============================================== Lightweight Kubernetes. Production ready, easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 100 MB. Great for: * Edge * IoT * CI * Development * ARM * Embedding k8s * Situations where a PhD in k8s clusterology is infeasible What is this? K3s is a fully conformant production-ready Kubernetes distribution with the following changes: 1. It is packaged as a single binary. 1. It adds support for sqlite3 as the default storage backend. Etcd3, MariaDB, MySQL, and Postgres are also supported. 1. It wraps Kubernetes and other components in a single, si

275.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (9 matches, e.g. nightly-install.yaml, nightly-install.yaml). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

275.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14