# Kubernetes Control Plane for Debian? The everything is a object in Kubernetes is a very nice abstraction. The ability to influence it with just `kubectl` makes for only one control plane (to learn). The networking, ingress, discovery, installation, etc. are all not that great. So I'm pondering marrying the things I love: have a plain Debian system, "normal" networking (no overlay/underlay/whatever), Debian packages, etc. *And* controlling it all via kubectl. This should include a sane installation and allow for rollbacks. Metrics and observability should be supported, but will probably be more of the same (install the binaries and push configuration = k8s objects). Technically this will boil down to: 1. using K3S for a kubernetes control plane (single Go binary!) 1. figuring out how to marry Debian to the kubernetes control plane (virtual kubelet?) 1. connecting multiple machines to the "cluster" (wireguard/tailscale?) As a proof a concept I will try to make virtual kubelet call out to systemd and APT to install and start a "container". Note in this context containers don't exist you just run processes. This will also get you over the hilarious limit of 110 pods per machine that k8s has. A side effect is that it is easier for everything to be kept in a Git repo, yes, I'm using *etckeeper* now, but that's not the same. (i.e. jumping on the GitOps bandwagon) The ultimate question will be if the overhead will be worth it? ## Update (24 Nov 2020) This is happening see .