How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 16

Introduction

This tutorial covers How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 16 on SLES 16. SLES 16 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management.

Step 1 — Disable Swap

swapoff -a
sed -i '/ swap / s/^(.*)$/#1/g' /etc/fstab

Step 2 — Install Kubernetes Components

zypper install -y kubeadm kubelet kubectl

Step 3 — Initialize Cluster

kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16

AppArmor Considerations

Note: SLES 16 uses AppArmor for mandatory access control. Check AppArmor status with aa-status and enforce profiles with aa-enforce /etc/apparmor.d/<profile>.

Conclusion

You have successfully completed: How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 16. For more SLES 16 tutorials, see our full SLES 16 series.