MicroK8s is a lightweight, single-package Kubernetes distribution distributed as a snap. It bundles upstream Kubernetes components (kube-apiserver, kubelet, etcd, containerd, runc, flannel, Calico CNI, dqlite, Helm) into a single snap package with a unified 'kubelite' binary that runs all control plane services as threads. The system provides a CLI (microk8s) with subcommands for cluster management (enable/disable addons, join/leave cluster, status, reset, upgrade), and an addon system that allows installing additional services (e.g., dashboard, ingress, registry) via git-cloned repositories with executable enable/disable hooks. The architecture is a monolith packaged as a snap, with services managed by snap daemons and configuration stored in snap data directories. Key entry points include the snap hooks (configure, install, remove), wrapper scripts in scripts/wrappers/ (enable.py, disable.py, join.py, status.py, etc.), and the kubelite binary. External dependencies include the snap runtime, upstream Kubernetes binaries, containerd, runc, etcd, dqlite, flanneld, and various CNI plugins. The build system uses pinned component versions with patch management for each Kubernetes release, and upgrade scripts handle migrations between versions with rollback support.