Setting Up a Lightweight K3s Kubernetes Environment with kubectl on WSL2 and Windows 11

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This tutorial walks readers through building a compact Kubernetes environment using K3s on an Ubuntu virtual machine hosted on Google Cloud. It assumes Ubuntu is already set up on a Google Cloud VM and on WSL2 under Windows 11, with the two machines connected over a network. The guide covers checking the OS version and available memory, confirming kubectl is absent, and installing K3s with a script that adds the VM's external IP to the TLS certificate. After installation, kubectl is automatically placed on the system, which the author verifies with a follow-up check.

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