With the release of Multipass 1.8, we are happy to announce that MicroK8s gains M1 Apple Silicone support.
Installing MicroK8s on an M1 Mac is as simple as it is on an Intel Mac:
$ brew install ubuntu/microk8s/microk8s
Once installed, you will have a running Kubernetes cluster with an arm64 node enrolled.
$ sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
Apple M1
$ microk8s kubectl get nodes --label-columns kubernetes.io/arch
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION ARCH
microk8s-vm Ready <none> 6m13s v1.22.3-3+64e63223b19811 arm64
Now we can enable all the MicroK8s addons we’d like to.
$ microk8s enable metrics-server
$ microk8s kubectl get pods -A
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system calico-kube-controllers-59df95b77f-vvtkm 1/1 Running 0 17m
kube-system calico-node-wv9ll 1/1 Running 0 17m
kube-system metrics-server-698f47cc84-p9jld 1/1 Running 0 2m49s
To see the list of available addons, you can go to https://microk8s.io/docs/addons.