I've been closely following the discussion on k3s and Kubernetes in general. I recently acquired an M1 Mac Ultra, and I'm curious about the best options available for running Kubernetes locally on it.

Does anyone have experience or recommendations in this area? I've heard about a few tools but wanted to gather insights from this knowledgeable community.

"colima" and it's underlying project "lima" are a pretty quick way to get started.

Extremely quick to stand up a single node cluster, or many types of VMs in lima.

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

    limactl start template://k3s

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

    colima start --kubernetes

The tools are a bit rough around the edges if you try and do something outside of the happy path with them. Nothing bad as such, just the user experience isn't as seamless when say running the VMs on custom, addressable host networks or managing vms with launchd.