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I've tried snap, juju, and Canonical's suite. They were uniquely frustrating and I'm not interested in interacting with them again.
The future of installing system components like k3s on generic distros is probably systemd sysexts, which are extension images that can be overlayed onto a base system. It's designed for immutable distros, but it can be used on any standard enough distro.
There is a k3s sysext, but it's still in the "bakery". Plus sysext isn't in stable release distros anyways.
Until it's out and stable, I'll stick to the one time bash script to install Suse k3s.
You're welcome to make whatever bad decisions you like. I can manage snaps with standard tooling. I can install, update, remove them with simple ansible scripts in a standard way.
Bash installers are bad. End of.
Canonical's snap use a proprietary backend, and comes at a risk of vendor lock in to their ecosystem.
The bash installer is fully open source.
You can make the bad decision of locking yourself into a closed ecosystem, but many sensible people recognize that snap is "of the devil" for a good reason.
You've made this about snap. Flatpak, rpm, deb, etc. all work too.
Except k3s does not provide a deb, a flatpak, or a rpm.
Ah - you have discovered my complaint.
That is precisely why I went with microk8s instead. I don't install software from people who can't be bothered to package their software using standard deployment tools which has been the correct way to distribute Linux software for decades.