Introducing K0s 0.13 and kosctl

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k0s is a single-binary Kubernetes distribution that claims one-command installs on x86 and ARM hardware from Raspberry Pi to datacenter. 0.13 ships with kube-router CNI (released April 9) and shows three real install flows: container-based startup (~20 seconds), a single-node script on Ubuntu/Alpine/Amazon Linux, and the community kosctl lifecycle manager which runs on Linux/Mac/Windows, generates configs, boots AWS VMs and returns a usable kubeconfig. GitHub shows ~3.5k stars and 139 forks.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:46How to install K0s
3. 1:52Manual installation
4. 4:02kosctl

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