Proxmox and VMware virtualize hardware into separate machines. Kubernetes orchestrates containers within machines. If what you actually need is to run and scale containerized workloads, installing a hypervisor first and Kubernetes on top of it is often unnecessary overhead.
K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, lets you skip the virtualization layer entirely and run directly on Bare Metal Servers.
Step 1: Install K3s on the Control Plane
K3s ships a single install script that handles the setup, including a bundled containerd runtime and Traefik ingress.
bash
curl -sfL [https://get.k3s.io](https://get.k3s.io) | sh -
sudo systemctl status k3s
sudo k3s kubectl get nodes
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