Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers

Category: infrastructure

Tags: kubernetes, esp32, webassembly, embedded, iot

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 9, Utility: 5)

kube32 implements a Kubernetes-compatible control plane and WebAssembly pod runtime for ESP32-S3 microcontrollers, allowing kubectl and k9s to manage clusters of tiny boards over Wi-Fi or serial. It is a technically impressive feat of embedded engineering, packing API serving, wasm3 execution, flash-backed storage, peripheral capability gating, and OTA rollouts into constrained hardware.

Target audience: embedded developers, IoT engineers, systems hobbyists

Repository: https://github.com/arterialist/kube32 · C++ · Apache-2.0 · 27 stars

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