Building a K3s Cluster from Scratch

🚀 Building My K3s Cluster from Scratch: A Hands-On Journey Over a few days I built a K3s cluster from the ground up. It was a deep dive into lightweight Kubernetes: networking hiccups, control-plane setup, and dashboard deployment. Below is a concise, practical walkthrough of what I did, how I debugged issues, and what I learned. 🧱 Phase 1 — Master node setup Install K3s on the master node: curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh - This installs the K3s server, starts the control plane, and generates a join token for worker nodes. ...

October 12, 2025 Â· 3 min Â· Taner