Alternative install methods for MicroK8s

MicroK8s is spectacularly easy to install and use on Ubuntu or any Linux which supports snaps - see the Getting started tutorial. For other platforms or less common scenarios, see the relevant notes and links below.

Operating systems

• Windows 10/11
• macOS (from Yosemite onwards)

Virtualisation

• Using LXD for MicroK8s
• Installing with Multipass

Platforms/Hardware

• NVIDIA DGX
• Raspberry Pi/arm
• GPUs: These are supported through an add-on enabled after MicroK8s has been installed. See the gpu addon docs for more details.

Other environments

• Using strict confinement
• Systems using ZFS
• Behind a proxy
• Offline / airgapped deployments
• Installing EKS-D with MicroK8s.

Other architectures

Currently MicroK8s is actively tested and developed on amd64 and arm64. If you run into difficulties running on other architectures (e.g. PPC/S390), please follow the procedure to file a bug