K3D equal k3s in a container. a tools to create single- and multi-node k3s clusters. Our favorite use case, is with podman and rootless. So there is some customization upstream to do. One downside I’ve found with k3d is that the Kubernetes version it uses is behind the current k3s release. Note for ARM PC: 1sudo apt install qemu-user-static 2podman run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes Install 1# Manual way 2curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k3d-io/k3d/main/install.sh | bash 3 4# or with arkade: 5arkade get k3d 6 7# Auto-completion 8k3d completion zsh > "$ZSH/completions/_k3d" Tweaks for podman and rootless The issue: 1k3d cluster create test 2 3ERRO[0000] Failed to get nodes for cluster 'test': docker failed to get containers with labels 'map[k3d.cluster:test]': failed to list containers: permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.46/containers/json?all=1&filters=%7B%22label%22%3A%7B%22app%3Dk3d%22%3Atrue%2C%22k3d.cluster%3Dtest%22%3Atrue%7D%7D": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied The solution: 1# TODO 2loginctl enable-linger $(whoami) 3 4# Either reload terminal or do below: 5export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/tmp/run-$(id -u) 6mkdir -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR 7chmod 700 $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR 8 9sudo mkdir -p /etc/containers/containers.conf.d 10sudo sh -c "echo 'service_timeout=0' > /etc/containers/containers.conf.d/timeout.conf" 11 12sudo ln -s /run/podman/podman.sock /var/run/docker.sock 13 14XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/run/user/$(id -u)} 15export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock 16export DOCKER_SOCK=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/podman.sock 17 18systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket If /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.controllers is present on your system, you are using v2, otherwise you are using v1.