Awesome Open Source Kubernetes Distribution & OS

Distributions

K3s

• maintainer: CNCF
• tags: lightweight, single-package

An great out-of-the-box distro suitable for home lab or IoT.

Strip all functions that can be done through plugins, pre-installed klipper load balancer, traefik ingress controller.

K0s

• maintainer: Mirantis
• tags: lightweight, single-package

Another great out-of-the-box distro suitable for home lab or IoT. Both K3s and K0s target on lightweight distribution, but K0s preserved upstream cloud supports like GCP, AWS and Azure, and it doesn't pre-install load balancer and ingress controller.

MicroK8s

• maintainer: Canonical
• tags: lightweight, single-package

Typhoon

• maintainer: Poseidon

vcluster

• maintainer: Loft
• tags: virtual, multi-cluster, testing, in-namespace

Rancher

• maintainer: SUSE
• tags: hybird-cloud

RKE2

• maintainer: SUSE
• tags: security, government-compliance

Deckhouse

• maintainer: Flant
• tags: user-friendly, enterprise

KubeCube

• maintainer: NetEase
• tags: multi-cluster, user-friendly, enterprise

KubeSphere

• maintainer: QingCloud
• tags: multi-cluster, user-friendly, enterprise

Tanzu Community Edition

• maintainer: VMware
• tags: user-friendly

MetalK8s

• maintainer: Scality

Kubernetes Fury Distribution (KFD)

• maintainer: SIGHUP

Charmed Kubernetes

• maintainer: Canonical

Optimized Operating System

Talos

Using gRPC to control operating system, that says, no interactive shell. Root filesystem is a immutable image, and upgrade through A/B upgrade.

Flatcar Linux

License