Kubernetes in a snap.
Simple to install, full featured, always current Kubernetes available on 42 Linux distributions. Perfect for:
- Workstations
- IoT devices
- Edge Computing
- CI/CD
- Cloud VMs (small clusters)
To quote Kelsey Hightower, ... Canonical might have assembled the easiest way to provision a single node Kubernetes cluster.
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A snap package, MicroK8s runs on 42 different Linux distributions.
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MicroK8s releases happen the same day as upstream K8s.
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Updates are seamlessly delivered keeping your cluster up-to-date.
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Dependencies are included in the 200MB snap package.
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All K8s versions from v1.10 onwards as well as alpha, beta and release candidates are available.
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We maintain a curated collection of manifests for:
- Service Mesh: Istio, Linkerd
- Serverless: Knative
- Monitoring: Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Metrics
- Ingress, DNS, Dashboard, Clustering
- Automatic updates to the latest Kubernetes version
- GPGPU bindings for AI/ML
- Kubeflow!
Deploy MicroK8s with:
snap install microk8s --classic
To avoid colliding with an already-installed kubectl, and to avoid overwriting any existing Kubernetes configuration files, MicroK8s adds a microk8s.kubectl command, configured to exclusively access the MicroK8s cluster.
microk8s.kubectl get nodes
microk8s.kubectl get services
To instead use MicroK8s with an already-installed kubectl, do this:
microk8s.kubectl config view --raw > $HOME/.kube/config
MicroK8s installs a barebones upstream Kubernetes. Additional services like dns and the Kubernetes dashboard can be enabled using the microk8s.enable command.
microk8s.enable dns dashboard
Use microk8s.status to see a list of enabled and available addons. You can find the addon manifests and/or scripts under ${SNAP}/actions/, with ${SNAP} pointing by default to /snap/microk8s/current.
For more information see the official docs.
To contribute to the project have a look at the build instructions.
Drop us a line at the "MicroK8s In The Wild" page.
