k3s

Installation
SKILL.md

K3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

K3s is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution built for edge, IoT, and resource-constrained environments. Single binary (~70MB), embeds containerd, SQLite (single-node) or etcd (HA).

Key Paths

Path Purpose
/etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml Server/agent configuration
/etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml.d/*.yaml Drop-in config fragments
/etc/rancher/k3s/registries.yaml Private registry mirrors + auth
/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml Kubeconfig (default mode 0600)
/var/lib/rancher/k3s/ K3s state directory
/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/images/ Airgap image tarballs
/var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/containerd/ Containerd runtime data
/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/ Auto-deploy manifests

Quick Reference

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