I'm developing with k3s agentless. As it's marked ...
# k3sv
victorious-telephone-63840
10/30/2026, 7:22 PMI'm developing with k3s agentless. As it's marked experimental is it something that will become core to k3s or not as much demand for it?
docs.k3s.io/advanced#…
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creamy-pencil-82913
10/30/2026, 7:33 PMwe don’t currently have any specific plans for it. since it just involves disabling stuff, there’s not much maintenance burden associated with keeping it around even though we don’t really explicitly support it.
creamy-pencil-82913
10/30/2026, 7:34 PMit makes it a little harder to manage etcd since there are no nodes to track membership against, but if that’s not a problem for you…
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victorious-telephone-63840
10/30/2026, 8:52 PMThanks for the response and that is something I can work around.
I'm looking into MCP (managed control-plane) architecture like vCluster/Kamaji, but more self-managed. Kamaji is still open-source of course.
I got a working demo with k3s agentless and happy how it has turned out so far.
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creamy-pencil-82913
10/31/2026, 12:03 AMYou might look at k3k. I suspect it already does a lot of what you're looking for.
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victorious-telephone-63840
10/31/2026, 4:09 AMAhh this is really awesome. Thanks!
rancher.github.io/k3k-product-docs/…/create-hcp-virtual-cluster.html
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creamy-pencil-82913
10/31/2026, 4:47 AMits mostly just built on top of agentless k3s :)
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victorious-telephone-63840
11/05/2026, 12:49 AMI was able to set this up but I assume for the HCP mode there is no plans to support bring your own kubelet/kubeadm join?
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creamy-pencil-82913
11/05/2026, 2:00 AMNo
creamy-pencil-82913
11/05/2026, 2:01 AMWe don't generally support heterogenous (mixed distro) clusters. We expect all the nodes to be the same distro.