diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..115fd6824772b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 6f53bd36a40da4c71486e3b79f6e32d53d6eea5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Euan Kemp <euank@euank.com>
+Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 23:50:40 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] scrips/download: strip downloading, just package CRD
+
+The CRD packaging is a complicated set of commands, so let's reuse it.
+---
+ scripts/download | 10 ++--------
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/download b/scripts/download
+index 5effc0562a..82361803ee 100755
+--- a/scripts/download
++++ b/scripts/download
+@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ rm -rf ${CONTAINERD_DIR}
+ mkdir -p ${CHARTS_DIR}
+ mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
+ 
+-curl --compressed -sfL https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s-root/releases/download/${VERSION_ROOT}/k3s-root-${ARCH}.tar | tar xf - --exclude=bin/socat
+-
+-git clone --single-branch --branch=${VERSION_RUNC} --depth=1 https://github.com/opencontainers/runc ${RUNC_DIR}
+-
+-git clone --single-branch --branch=${VERSION_CONTAINERD} --depth=1 https://github.com/k3s-io/containerd ${CONTAINERD_DIR}
+-
+ setup_tmp() {
+     TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir=${CHARTS_DIR})
+     cleanup() {
+@@ -44,8 +38,8 @@ setup_tmp() {
+ 
+ download_and_package_traefik () {
+   echo "Downloading Traefik Helm chart from ${TRAEFIK_URL}"
+-  curl -sfL ${TRAEFIK_URL} -o ${TMP_DIR}/${TRAEFIK_FILE}
+-  code=$?
++  # nixpkgs: copy in our known traefik chart instead
++  cp $TRAEFIK_CHART_FILE ${TMP_DIR}/${TRAEFIK_FILE}
+ 
+   if [ $code -ne 0 ]; then
+     echo "Error: Failed to download Traefik Helm chart!"
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1fbe7687a006c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,331 @@
+{ stdenv
+, lib
+, makeWrapper
+, socat
+, iptables
+, iproute2
+, bridge-utils
+, btrfs-progs
+, conntrack-tools
+, buildGoModule
+, runc
+, rsync
+, kmod
+, libseccomp
+, pkg-config
+, ethtool
+, util-linux
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchurl
+, fetchzip
+, fetchgit
+, zstd
+, yq-go
+, nixosTests
+, k3s
+, pkgsBuildBuild
+}:
+
+with lib;
+
+# k3s is a kinda weird derivation. One of the main points of k3s is the
+# simplicity of it being one binary that can perform several tasks.
+# However, when you have a good package manager (like nix), that doesn't
+# actually make much of a difference; you don't really care if it's one binary
+# or 10 since with a good package manager, installing and running it is
+# identical.
+# Since upstream k3s packages itself as one large binary with several
+# "personalities" (in the form of subcommands like 'k3s agent' and 'k3s
+# kubectl'), it ends up being easiest to mostly mimic upstream packaging, with
+# some exceptions.
+# K3s also carries patches to some packages (such as containerd and cni
+# plugins), so we intentionally use the k3s versions of those binaries for k3s,
+# even if the upstream version of those binaries exist in nixpkgs already. In
+# the end, that means we have a thick k3s binary that behaves like the upstream
+# one for the most part.
+# However, k3s also bundles several pieces of unpatched software, from the
+# strongswan vpn software, to iptables, to socat, conntrack, busybox, etc.
+# Those pieces of software we entirely ignore upstream's handling of, and just
+# make sure they're in the path if desired.
+let
+  k3sVersion = "1.23.6+k3s1";     # k3s git tag
+  k3sCommit = "418c3fa858b69b12b9cefbcff0526f666a6236b9"; # k3s git commit at the above version
+  k3sRepoSha256 = "0fmw491dn5mpi058mr7sij51i5m4qg2grx30cnl3h2v4s0sdkx2i";
+  k3sVendorSha256 = "sha256-iHg5ySMaiSWXs98YGmxPwdZr4zdBIFma12dNEuf30Hs=";
+
+  # taken from ./manifests/traefik.yaml, extracted from '.spec.chart' https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/download#L9
+  # The 'patch' and 'minor' versions are currently hardcoded as single digits only, so ignore the trailing two digits. Weird, I know.
+  traefikChartVersion = "10.19.3";
+  traefikChartSha256 = "04zg5li957svgscdmkzmzjkwljaljyav68rzxmhakkwgav6q9058";
+
+  # taken from ./scripts/version.sh VERSION_ROOT https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/version.sh#L47
+  k3sRootVersion = "0.11.0";
+  k3sRootSha256 = "016n56vi09xkvjph7wgzb2m86mhd5x65fs4d11pmh20hl249r620";
+
+  # taken from ./scripts/version.sh VERSION_CNIPLUGINS https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/version.sh#L45
+  k3sCNIVersion = "1.0.1-k3s1";
+  k3sCNISha256 = "11ihlzzdnqf9p21y0a4ckpbxac016nm7746dcykhj26ym9zxyv92";
+
+  # taken from go.mod, the 'github.com/containerd/containerd' line
+  # run `grep github.com/containerd/containerd go.mod | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'`
+  containerdVersion = "1.5.11-k3s2";
+  containerdSha256 = "16132snvrg8r0vwm6c0lz0q6fx686s2ix53nm3aka9a83xs75vf2";
+
+  # run `grep github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools go.mod | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'` in the k3s repo at the tag
+  criCtlVersion = "1.22.0-k3s1";
+
+  baseMeta = k3s.meta;
+
+  # https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/5fb370e53e0014dc96183b8ecb2c25a61e891e76/scripts/build#L19-L40
+  versionldflags = [
+    "-X github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version.Version=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version.GitCommit=${lib.substring 0 8 k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitVersion=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitCommit=${k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitTreeState=clean"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.buildDate=1970-01-01T01:01:01Z"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitVersion=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitCommit=${k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitTreeState=clean"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.buildDate=1970-01-01T01:01:01Z"
+    "-X github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/pkg/version.Version=v${criCtlVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/containerd/containerd/version.Version=v${containerdVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/containerd/containerd/version.Package=github.com/k3s-io/containerd"
+  ];
+
+  # bundled into the k3s binary
+  traefikChart = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://helm.traefik.io/traefik/traefik-${traefikChartVersion}.tgz";
+    sha256 = traefikChartSha256;
+  };
+  # so, k3s is a complicated thing to package
+  # This derivation attempts to avoid including any random binaries from the
+  # internet. k3s-root is _mostly_ binaries built to be bundled in k3s (which
+  # we don't care about doing, we can add those as build or runtime
+  # dependencies using a real package manager).
+  # In addition to those binaries, it's also configuration though (right now
+  # mostly strongswan configuration), and k3s does use those files.
+  # As such, we download it in order to grab 'etc' and bundle it into the final
+  # k3s binary.
+  k3sRoot = fetchzip {
+    # Note: marked as apache 2.0 license
+    url = "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s-root/releases/download/v${k3sRootVersion}/k3s-root-amd64.tar";
+    sha256 = k3sRootSha256;
+    stripRoot = false;
+  };
+  k3sCNIPlugins = buildGoModule rec {
+    pname = "k3s-cni-plugins";
+    version = k3sCNIVersion;
+    vendorSha256 = null;
+
+    subPackages = [ "." ];
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "rancher";
+      repo = "plugins";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = k3sCNISha256;
+    };
+
+    postInstall = ''
+      mv $out/bin/plugins $out/bin/cni
+    '';
+
+    meta = baseMeta // {
+      description = "CNI plugins, as patched by rancher for k3s";
+    };
+  };
+  # Grab this separately from a build because it's used by both stages of the
+  # k3s build.
+  k3sRepo = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s";
+    rev = "v${k3sVersion}";
+    sha256 = k3sRepoSha256;
+  };
+  # Stage 1 of the k3s build:
+  # Let's talk about how k3s is structured.
+  # One of the ideas of k3s is that there's the single "k3s" binary which can
+  # do everything you need, from running a k3s server, to being a worker node,
+  # to running kubectl.
+  # The way that actually works is that k3s is a single go binary that contains
+  # a bunch of bindata that it unpacks at runtime into directories (either the
+  # user's home directory or /var/lib/rancher if run as root).
+  # This bindata includes both binaries and configuration.
+  # In order to let nixpkgs do all its autostripping/patching/etc, we split this into two derivations.
+  # First, we build all the binaries that get packed into the thick k3s binary
+  # (and output them from one derivation so they'll all be suitably patched up).
+  # Then, we bundle those binaries into our thick k3s binary and use that as
+  # the final single output.
+  # This approach was chosen because it ensures the bundled binaries all are
+  # correctly built to run with nix (we can lean on the existing buildGoModule
+  # stuff), and we can again lean on that tooling for the final k3s binary too.
+  # Other alternatives would be to manually run the
+  # strip/patchelf/remove-references step ourselves in the installPhase of the
+  # derivation when we've built all the binaries, but haven't bundled them in
+  # with generated bindata yet.
+
+  k3sServer = buildGoModule rec {
+    pname = "k3s-server";
+    version = k3sVersion;
+
+    src = k3sRepo;
+    vendorSha256 = k3sVendorSha256;
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+    buildInputs = [ libseccomp ];
+
+    subPackages = [ "cmd/server" ];
+    ldflags = versionldflags;
+
+    # create the multicall symlinks for k3s
+    postInstall = ''
+      mv $out/bin/server $out/bin/k3s
+      pushd $out
+      # taken verbatim from https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/build#L105-L113
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-agent
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-server
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-etcd-snapshot
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-secrets-encrypt
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-certificate
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/kubectl
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/crictl
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/ctr
+      popd
+    '';
+
+    meta = baseMeta // {
+      description = "The various binaries that get packaged into the final k3s binary";
+    };
+  };
+  k3sContainerd = buildGoModule {
+    pname = "k3s-containerd";
+    version = containerdVersion;
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "k3s-io";
+      repo = "containerd";
+      rev = "v${containerdVersion}";
+      sha256 = containerdSha256;
+    };
+    vendorSha256 = null;
+    buildInputs = [ btrfs-progs ];
+    subPackages = [ "cmd/containerd" "cmd/containerd-shim-runc-v2" ];
+    ldflags = versionldflags;
+  };
+in
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "k3s";
+  version = k3sVersion;
+
+  src = k3sRepo;
+  vendorSha256 = k3sVendorSha256;
+
+  patches = [
+    ./0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Nix prefers dynamically linked binaries over static binary.
+
+    substituteInPlace scripts/package-cli \
+      --replace '"$LDFLAGS $STATIC" -o' \
+                '"$LDFLAGS" -o' \
+      --replace "STATIC=\"-extldflags \'-static\'\"" \
+                ""
+
+    # Upstream codegen fails with trimpath set. Removes "trimpath" for 'go generate':
+
+    substituteInPlace scripts/package-cli \
+      --replace '"''${GO}" generate' \
+                'GOFLAGS="" \
+                 GOOS="${pkgsBuildBuild.go.GOOS}" \
+                 GOARCH="${pkgsBuildBuild.go.GOARCH}" \
+                 CC="${pkgsBuildBuild.stdenv.cc}/bin/cc" \
+                 "''${GO}" generate'
+  '';
+
+  # Important utilities used by the kubelet, see
+  # https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/26093#issuecomment-237202494
+  # Note the list in that issue is stale and some aren't relevant for k3s.
+  k3sRuntimeDeps = [
+    kmod
+    socat
+    iptables
+    iproute2
+    bridge-utils
+    ethtool
+    util-linux # kubelet wants 'nsenter' from util-linux: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/26093#issuecomment-705994388
+    conntrack-tools
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = k3sRuntimeDeps;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    makeWrapper
+    rsync
+    yq-go
+    zstd
+  ];
+
+  # embedded in the final k3s cli
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    k3sCNIPlugins
+    k3sContainerd
+    k3sServer
+    runc
+  ];
+
+  # We override most of buildPhase due to peculiarities in k3s's build.
+  # Specifically, it has a 'go generate' which runs part of the package. See
+  # this comment:
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158089#discussion_r799965694
+  # So, why do we use buildGoModule at all? For the `vendorSha256` / `go mod download` stuff primarily.
+  buildPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs ./scripts/package-cli ./scripts/download ./scripts/build-upload
+
+    # copy needed 'go generate' inputs into place
+    mkdir -p ./bin/aux
+    rsync -a --no-perms ${k3sServer}/bin/ ./bin/
+    ln -vsf ${runc}/bin/runc ./bin/runc
+    ln -vsf ${k3sCNIPlugins}/bin/cni ./bin/cni
+    ln -vsf ${k3sContainerd}/bin/* ./bin/
+    rsync -a --no-perms --chmod u=rwX ${k3sRoot}/etc/ ./etc/
+    mkdir -p ./build/static/charts
+    # Note, upstream's chart has a 00 suffix. This seems to not matter though, so we're ignoring that naming detail.
+    export TRAEFIK_CHART_FILE=${traefikChart}
+    # place the traefik chart using their code since it's complicated
+    # We trim the actual download, see patches
+    ./scripts/download
+
+    export ARCH=$GOARCH
+    export DRONE_TAG="v${k3sVersion}"
+    export DRONE_COMMIT="${k3sCommit}"
+    # use ./scripts/package-cli to run 'go generate' + 'go build'
+
+    ./scripts/package-cli
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  # Otherwise it depends on 'getGoDirs', which is normally set in buildPhase
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    # wildcard to match the arm64 build too
+    install -m 0755 dist/artifacts/k3s* -D $out/bin/k3s
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/k3s \
+      --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath k3sRuntimeDeps} \
+      --prefix PATH : "$out/bin"
+  '';
+
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+  installCheckPhase = ''
+    $out/bin/k3s --version | grep -F "v${k3sVersion}" >/dev/null
+  '';
+
+  # Fix-Me: Needs to be adapted specifically for 1.23
+  # passthru.updateScript = ./update.sh;
+
+  # Fix-Me: Needs to be adapted specifically for 1.23
+  # passthru.tests = { inherit (nixosTests) k3s-single-node k3s-single-node-docker; };
+
+  meta = baseMeta;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..115fd6824772b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 6f53bd36a40da4c71486e3b79f6e32d53d6eea5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Euan Kemp <euank@euank.com>
+Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 23:50:40 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] scrips/download: strip downloading, just package CRD
+
+The CRD packaging is a complicated set of commands, so let's reuse it.
+---
+ scripts/download | 10 ++--------
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/download b/scripts/download
+index 5effc0562a..82361803ee 100755
+--- a/scripts/download
++++ b/scripts/download
+@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ rm -rf ${CONTAINERD_DIR}
+ mkdir -p ${CHARTS_DIR}
+ mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
+ 
+-curl --compressed -sfL https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s-root/releases/download/${VERSION_ROOT}/k3s-root-${ARCH}.tar | tar xf - --exclude=bin/socat
+-
+-git clone --single-branch --branch=${VERSION_RUNC} --depth=1 https://github.com/opencontainers/runc ${RUNC_DIR}
+-
+-git clone --single-branch --branch=${VERSION_CONTAINERD} --depth=1 https://github.com/k3s-io/containerd ${CONTAINERD_DIR}
+-
+ setup_tmp() {
+     TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir=${CHARTS_DIR})
+     cleanup() {
+@@ -44,8 +38,8 @@ setup_tmp() {
+ 
+ download_and_package_traefik () {
+   echo "Downloading Traefik Helm chart from ${TRAEFIK_URL}"
+-  curl -sfL ${TRAEFIK_URL} -o ${TMP_DIR}/${TRAEFIK_FILE}
+-  code=$?
++  # nixpkgs: copy in our known traefik chart instead
++  cp $TRAEFIK_CHART_FILE ${TMP_DIR}/${TRAEFIK_FILE}
+ 
+   if [ $code -ne 0 ]; then
+     echo "Error: Failed to download Traefik Helm chart!"
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..18e0258432ee7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,329 @@
+{ stdenv
+, lib
+, makeWrapper
+, socat
+, iptables
+, iproute2
+, bridge-utils
+, btrfs-progs
+, conntrack-tools
+, buildGoModule
+, runc
+, rsync
+, kmod
+, libseccomp
+, pkg-config
+, ethtool
+, util-linux
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchurl
+, fetchzip
+, fetchgit
+, zstd
+, yq-go
+, nixosTests
+, k3s
+, pkgsBuildBuild
+}:
+
+# k3s is a kinda weird derivation. One of the main points of k3s is the
+# simplicity of it being one binary that can perform several tasks.
+# However, when you have a good package manager (like nix), that doesn't
+# actually make much of a difference; you don't really care if it's one binary
+# or 10 since with a good package manager, installing and running it is
+# identical.
+# Since upstream k3s packages itself as one large binary with several
+# "personalities" (in the form of subcommands like 'k3s agent' and 'k3s
+# kubectl'), it ends up being easiest to mostly mimic upstream packaging, with
+# some exceptions.
+# K3s also carries patches to some packages (such as containerd and cni
+# plugins), so we intentionally use the k3s versions of those binaries for k3s,
+# even if the upstream version of those binaries exist in nixpkgs already. In
+# the end, that means we have a thick k3s binary that behaves like the upstream
+# one for the most part.
+# However, k3s also bundles several pieces of unpatched software, from the
+# strongswan vpn software, to iptables, to socat, conntrack, busybox, etc.
+# Those pieces of software we entirely ignore upstream's handling of, and just
+# make sure they're in the path if desired.
+let
+  k3sVersion = "1.24.4+k3s1";     # k3s git tag
+  k3sCommit = "c3f830e9b9ed8a4d9d0e2aa663b4591b923a296e"; # k3s git commit at the above version
+  k3sRepoSha256 = "00ns6n7jxnacah8ahndhgdb160prgsqhswbb5809kkgvig7k8b27";
+  k3sVendorSha256 = "sha256-ReZvJCgxqffG2H39JlynGPUBSV5ngPkRtAoZ++OQZZI=";
+
+  # taken from ./manifests/traefik.yaml, extracted from '.spec.chart' https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/download#L9
+  # The 'patch' and 'minor' versions are currently hardcoded as single digits only, so ignore the trailing two digits. Weird, I know.
+  traefikChartVersion = "10.19.3";
+  traefikChartSha256 = "04zg5li957svgscdmkzmzjkwljaljyav68rzxmhakkwgav6q9058";
+
+  # taken from ./scripts/version.sh VERSION_ROOT https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/version.sh#L47
+  k3sRootVersion = "0.11.0";
+  k3sRootSha256 = "016n56vi09xkvjph7wgzb2m86mhd5x65fs4d11pmh20hl249r620";
+
+  # taken from ./scripts/version.sh VERSION_CNIPLUGINS https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/version.sh#L45
+  k3sCNIVersion = "1.1.1-k3s1";
+  k3sCNISha256 = "14mb3zsqibj1sn338gjmsyksbm0mxv9p016dij7zidccx2rzn6nl";
+
+  # taken from go.mod, the 'github.com/containerd/containerd' line
+  # run `grep github.com/containerd/containerd go.mod | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'`
+  containerdVersion = "1.5.13-k3s1";
+  containerdSha256 = "09bj4ghwbsj9whkv1d5icqs52k64m449j8b73dmak2wz62fbzbvp";
+
+  # run `grep github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools go.mod | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'` in the k3s repo at the tag
+  criCtlVersion = "1.24.0-k3s1";
+
+  baseMeta = k3s.meta;
+
+  # https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/5fb370e53e0014dc96183b8ecb2c25a61e891e76/scripts/build#L19-L40
+  versionldflags = [
+    "-X github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version.Version=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version.GitCommit=${lib.substring 0 8 k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitVersion=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitCommit=${k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitTreeState=clean"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.buildDate=1970-01-01T01:01:01Z"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitVersion=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitCommit=${k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitTreeState=clean"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.buildDate=1970-01-01T01:01:01Z"
+    "-X github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/pkg/version.Version=v${criCtlVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/containerd/containerd/version.Version=v${containerdVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/containerd/containerd/version.Package=github.com/k3s-io/containerd"
+  ];
+
+  # bundled into the k3s binary
+  traefikChart = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://helm.traefik.io/traefik/traefik-${traefikChartVersion}.tgz";
+    sha256 = traefikChartSha256;
+  };
+  # so, k3s is a complicated thing to package
+  # This derivation attempts to avoid including any random binaries from the
+  # internet. k3s-root is _mostly_ binaries built to be bundled in k3s (which
+  # we don't care about doing, we can add those as build or runtime
+  # dependencies using a real package manager).
+  # In addition to those binaries, it's also configuration though (right now
+  # mostly strongswan configuration), and k3s does use those files.
+  # As such, we download it in order to grab 'etc' and bundle it into the final
+  # k3s binary.
+  k3sRoot = fetchzip {
+    # Note: marked as apache 2.0 license
+    url = "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s-root/releases/download/v${k3sRootVersion}/k3s-root-amd64.tar";
+    sha256 = k3sRootSha256;
+    stripRoot = false;
+  };
+  k3sCNIPlugins = buildGoModule rec {
+    pname = "k3s-cni-plugins";
+    version = k3sCNIVersion;
+    vendorSha256 = null;
+
+    subPackages = [ "." ];
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "rancher";
+      repo = "plugins";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = k3sCNISha256;
+    };
+
+    postInstall = ''
+      mv $out/bin/plugins $out/bin/cni
+    '';
+
+    meta = baseMeta // {
+      description = "CNI plugins, as patched by rancher for k3s";
+    };
+  };
+  # Grab this separately from a build because it's used by both stages of the
+  # k3s build.
+  k3sRepo = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s";
+    rev = "v${k3sVersion}";
+    sha256 = k3sRepoSha256;
+  };
+  # Stage 1 of the k3s build:
+  # Let's talk about how k3s is structured.
+  # One of the ideas of k3s is that there's the single "k3s" binary which can
+  # do everything you need, from running a k3s server, to being a worker node,
+  # to running kubectl.
+  # The way that actually works is that k3s is a single go binary that contains
+  # a bunch of bindata that it unpacks at runtime into directories (either the
+  # user's home directory or /var/lib/rancher if run as root).
+  # This bindata includes both binaries and configuration.
+  # In order to let nixpkgs do all its autostripping/patching/etc, we split this into two derivations.
+  # First, we build all the binaries that get packed into the thick k3s binary
+  # (and output them from one derivation so they'll all be suitably patched up).
+  # Then, we bundle those binaries into our thick k3s binary and use that as
+  # the final single output.
+  # This approach was chosen because it ensures the bundled binaries all are
+  # correctly built to run with nix (we can lean on the existing buildGoModule
+  # stuff), and we can again lean on that tooling for the final k3s binary too.
+  # Other alternatives would be to manually run the
+  # strip/patchelf/remove-references step ourselves in the installPhase of the
+  # derivation when we've built all the binaries, but haven't bundled them in
+  # with generated bindata yet.
+
+  k3sServer = buildGoModule rec {
+    pname = "k3s-server";
+    version = k3sVersion;
+
+    src = k3sRepo;
+    vendorSha256 = k3sVendorSha256;
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+    buildInputs = [ libseccomp ];
+
+    subPackages = [ "cmd/server" ];
+    ldflags = versionldflags;
+
+    # create the multicall symlinks for k3s
+    postInstall = ''
+      mv $out/bin/server $out/bin/k3s
+      pushd $out
+      # taken verbatim from https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/build#L105-L113
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-agent
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-server
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-etcd-snapshot
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-secrets-encrypt
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-certificate
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/kubectl
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/crictl
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/ctr
+      popd
+    '';
+
+    meta = baseMeta // {
+      description = "The various binaries that get packaged into the final k3s binary";
+    };
+  };
+  k3sContainerd = buildGoModule {
+    pname = "k3s-containerd";
+    version = containerdVersion;
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "k3s-io";
+      repo = "containerd";
+      rev = "v${containerdVersion}";
+      sha256 = containerdSha256;
+    };
+    vendorSha256 = null;
+    buildInputs = [ btrfs-progs ];
+    subPackages = [ "cmd/containerd" "cmd/containerd-shim-runc-v2" ];
+    ldflags = versionldflags;
+  };
+in
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "k3s";
+  version = k3sVersion;
+
+  src = k3sRepo;
+  vendorSha256 = k3sVendorSha256;
+
+  patches = [
+    ./0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Nix prefers dynamically linked binaries over static binary.
+
+    substituteInPlace scripts/package-cli \
+      --replace '"$LDFLAGS $STATIC" -o' \
+                '"$LDFLAGS" -o' \
+      --replace "STATIC=\"-extldflags \'-static\'\"" \
+                ""
+
+    # Upstream codegen fails with trimpath set. Removes "trimpath" for 'go generate':
+
+    substituteInPlace scripts/package-cli \
+      --replace '"''${GO}" generate' \
+                'GOFLAGS="" \
+                 GOOS="${pkgsBuildBuild.go.GOOS}" \
+                 GOARCH="${pkgsBuildBuild.go.GOARCH}" \
+                 CC="${pkgsBuildBuild.stdenv.cc}/bin/cc" \
+                 "''${GO}" generate'
+  '';
+
+  # Important utilities used by the kubelet, see
+  # https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/26093#issuecomment-237202494
+  # Note the list in that issue is stale and some aren't relevant for k3s.
+  k3sRuntimeDeps = [
+    kmod
+    socat
+    iptables
+    iproute2
+    bridge-utils
+    ethtool
+    util-linux # kubelet wants 'nsenter' from util-linux: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/26093#issuecomment-705994388
+    conntrack-tools
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = k3sRuntimeDeps;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    makeWrapper
+    rsync
+    yq-go
+    zstd
+  ];
+
+  # embedded in the final k3s cli
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    k3sCNIPlugins
+    k3sContainerd
+    k3sServer
+    runc
+  ];
+
+  # We override most of buildPhase due to peculiarities in k3s's build.
+  # Specifically, it has a 'go generate' which runs part of the package. See
+  # this comment:
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158089#discussion_r799965694
+  # So, why do we use buildGoModule at all? For the `vendorSha256` / `go mod download` stuff primarily.
+  buildPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs ./scripts/package-cli ./scripts/download ./scripts/build-upload
+
+    # copy needed 'go generate' inputs into place
+    mkdir -p ./bin/aux
+    rsync -a --no-perms ${k3sServer}/bin/ ./bin/
+    ln -vsf ${runc}/bin/runc ./bin/runc
+    ln -vsf ${k3sCNIPlugins}/bin/cni ./bin/cni
+    ln -vsf ${k3sContainerd}/bin/* ./bin/
+    rsync -a --no-perms --chmod u=rwX ${k3sRoot}/etc/ ./etc/
+    mkdir -p ./build/static/charts
+    # Note, upstream's chart has a 00 suffix. This seems to not matter though, so we're ignoring that naming detail.
+    export TRAEFIK_CHART_FILE=${traefikChart}
+    # place the traefik chart using their code since it's complicated
+    # We trim the actual download, see patches
+    ./scripts/download
+
+    export ARCH=$GOARCH
+    export DRONE_TAG="v${k3sVersion}"
+    export DRONE_COMMIT="${k3sCommit}"
+    # use ./scripts/package-cli to run 'go generate' + 'go build'
+
+    ./scripts/package-cli
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  # Otherwise it depends on 'getGoDirs', which is normally set in buildPhase
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    # wildcard to match the arm64 build too
+    install -m 0755 dist/artifacts/k3s* -D $out/bin/k3s
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/k3s \
+      --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath k3sRuntimeDeps} \
+      --prefix PATH : "$out/bin"
+  '';
+
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+  installCheckPhase = ''
+    $out/bin/k3s --version | grep -F "v${k3sVersion}" >/dev/null
+  '';
+
+  # Fix-Me: Needs to be adapted specifically for 1.24
+  # passthru.updateScript = ./update.sh;
+
+  # Fix-Me: Needs to be adapted specifically for 1.24
+  # passthru.tests = nixosTests.k3s;
+
+  meta = baseMeta;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..115fd6824772b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25/0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From 6f53bd36a40da4c71486e3b79f6e32d53d6eea5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Euan Kemp <euank@euank.com>
+Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 23:50:40 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH 2/2] scrips/download: strip downloading, just package CRD
+
+The CRD packaging is a complicated set of commands, so let's reuse it.
+---
+ scripts/download | 10 ++--------
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/scripts/download b/scripts/download
+index 5effc0562a..82361803ee 100755
+--- a/scripts/download
++++ b/scripts/download
+@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ rm -rf ${CONTAINERD_DIR}
+ mkdir -p ${CHARTS_DIR}
+ mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
+ 
+-curl --compressed -sfL https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s-root/releases/download/${VERSION_ROOT}/k3s-root-${ARCH}.tar | tar xf - --exclude=bin/socat
+-
+-git clone --single-branch --branch=${VERSION_RUNC} --depth=1 https://github.com/opencontainers/runc ${RUNC_DIR}
+-
+-git clone --single-branch --branch=${VERSION_CONTAINERD} --depth=1 https://github.com/k3s-io/containerd ${CONTAINERD_DIR}
+-
+ setup_tmp() {
+     TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir=${CHARTS_DIR})
+     cleanup() {
+@@ -44,8 +38,8 @@ setup_tmp() {
+ 
+ download_and_package_traefik () {
+   echo "Downloading Traefik Helm chart from ${TRAEFIK_URL}"
+-  curl -sfL ${TRAEFIK_URL} -o ${TMP_DIR}/${TRAEFIK_FILE}
+-  code=$?
++  # nixpkgs: copy in our known traefik chart instead
++  cp $TRAEFIK_CHART_FILE ${TMP_DIR}/${TRAEFIK_FILE}
+ 
+   if [ $code -ne 0 ]; then
+     echo "Error: Failed to download Traefik Helm chart!"
+-- 
+2.34.1
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dc34821fb255e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,329 @@
+{ stdenv
+, lib
+, makeWrapper
+, socat
+, iptables
+, iproute2
+, bridge-utils
+, btrfs-progs
+, conntrack-tools
+, buildGoModule
+, runc
+, rsync
+, kmod
+, libseccomp
+, pkg-config
+, ethtool
+, util-linux
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchurl
+, fetchzip
+, fetchgit
+, zstd
+, yq-go
+, nixosTests
+, pkgsBuildBuild
+, k3s
+}:
+
+# k3s is a kinda weird derivation. One of the main points of k3s is the
+# simplicity of it being one binary that can perform several tasks.
+# However, when you have a good package manager (like nix), that doesn't
+# actually make much of a difference; you don't really care if it's one binary
+# or 10 since with a good package manager, installing and running it is
+# identical.
+# Since upstream k3s packages itself as one large binary with several
+# "personalities" (in the form of subcommands like 'k3s agent' and 'k3s
+# kubectl'), it ends up being easiest to mostly mimic upstream packaging, with
+# some exceptions.
+# K3s also carries patches to some packages (such as containerd and cni
+# plugins), so we intentionally use the k3s versions of those binaries for k3s,
+# even if the upstream version of those binaries exist in nixpkgs already. In
+# the end, that means we have a thick k3s binary that behaves like the upstream
+# one for the most part.
+# However, k3s also bundles several pieces of unpatched software, from the
+# strongswan vpn software, to iptables, to socat, conntrack, busybox, etc.
+# Those pieces of software we entirely ignore upstream's handling of, and just
+# make sure they're in the path if desired.
+let
+  k3sVersion = "1.25.3+k3s1";     # k3s git tag
+  k3sCommit = "f2585c1671b31b4b34bddbb3bf4e7d69662b0821"; # k3s git commit at the above version
+  k3sRepoSha256 = "0zwf3iwjcidx14zw36s1hr0q8wmmbfc0rfqwd7fmpjq597h8zkms";
+  k3sVendorSha256 = "sha256-U67tJRGqPFk5AfRe7I50zKGC9HJ2oh+iI/C7qF/76BQ=";
+
+  # taken from ./manifests/traefik.yaml, extracted from '.spec.chart' https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/download#L9
+  # The 'patch' and 'minor' versions are currently hardcoded as single digits only, so ignore the trailing two digits. Weird, I know.
+  traefikChartVersion = "12.0.0";
+  traefikChartSha256 = "1sqmi71fi3ad5dh5fmsp9mv80x6pkgqwi4r9fr8l6i9sdnai6f1a";
+
+  # taken from ./scripts/version.sh VERSION_ROOT https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/version.sh#L47
+  k3sRootVersion = "0.11.0";
+  k3sRootSha256 = "016n56vi09xkvjph7wgzb2m86mhd5x65fs4d11pmh20hl249r620";
+
+  # taken from ./scripts/version.sh VERSION_CNIPLUGINS https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/version.sh#L45
+  k3sCNIVersion = "1.1.1-k3s1";
+  k3sCNISha256 = "14mb3zsqibj1sn338gjmsyksbm0mxv9p016dij7zidccx2rzn6nl";
+
+  # taken from go.mod, the 'github.com/containerd/containerd' line
+  # run `grep github.com/containerd/containerd go.mod | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'`
+  containerdVersion = "1.5.13-k3s2";
+  containerdSha256 = "1pfr2ji4aij9js90gf4a3hqnhyw5hshcjdccm62l700j68gs5z97";
+
+  # run `grep github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools go.mod | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}'` in the k3s repo at the tag
+  criCtlVersion = "1.25.0-k3s1";
+
+  baseMeta = k3s.meta;
+
+  # https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/5fb370e53e0014dc96183b8ecb2c25a61e891e76/scripts/build#L19-L40
+  versionldflags = [
+    "-X github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version.Version=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version.GitCommit=${lib.substring 0 8 k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitVersion=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitCommit=${k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.gitTreeState=clean"
+    "-X k8s.io/client-go/pkg/version.buildDate=1970-01-01T01:01:01Z"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitVersion=v${k3sVersion}"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitCommit=${k3sCommit}"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.gitTreeState=clean"
+    "-X k8s.io/component-base/version.buildDate=1970-01-01T01:01:01Z"
+    "-X github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/pkg/version.Version=v${criCtlVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/containerd/containerd/version.Version=v${containerdVersion}"
+    "-X github.com/containerd/containerd/version.Package=github.com/k3s-io/containerd"
+  ];
+
+  # bundled into the k3s binary
+  traefikChart = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://helm.traefik.io/traefik/traefik-${traefikChartVersion}.tgz";
+    sha256 = traefikChartSha256;
+  };
+  # so, k3s is a complicated thing to package
+  # This derivation attempts to avoid including any random binaries from the
+  # internet. k3s-root is _mostly_ binaries built to be bundled in k3s (which
+  # we don't care about doing, we can add those as build or runtime
+  # dependencies using a real package manager).
+  # In addition to those binaries, it's also configuration though (right now
+  # mostly strongswan configuration), and k3s does use those files.
+  # As such, we download it in order to grab 'etc' and bundle it into the final
+  # k3s binary.
+  k3sRoot = fetchzip {
+    # Note: marked as apache 2.0 license
+    url = "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s-root/releases/download/v${k3sRootVersion}/k3s-root-amd64.tar";
+    sha256 = k3sRootSha256;
+    stripRoot = false;
+  };
+  k3sCNIPlugins = buildGoModule rec {
+    pname = "k3s-cni-plugins";
+    version = k3sCNIVersion;
+    vendorSha256 = null;
+
+    subPackages = [ "." ];
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "rancher";
+      repo = "plugins";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = k3sCNISha256;
+    };
+
+    postInstall = ''
+      mv $out/bin/plugins $out/bin/cni
+    '';
+
+    meta = baseMeta // {
+      description = "CNI plugins, as patched by rancher for k3s";
+    };
+  };
+  # Grab this separately from a build because it's used by both stages of the
+  # k3s build.
+  k3sRepo = fetchgit {
+    url = "https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s";
+    rev = "v${k3sVersion}";
+    sha256 = k3sRepoSha256;
+  };
+  # Stage 1 of the k3s build:
+  # Let's talk about how k3s is structured.
+  # One of the ideas of k3s is that there's the single "k3s" binary which can
+  # do everything you need, from running a k3s server, to being a worker node,
+  # to running kubectl.
+  # The way that actually works is that k3s is a single go binary that contains
+  # a bunch of bindata that it unpacks at runtime into directories (either the
+  # user's home directory or /var/lib/rancher if run as root).
+  # This bindata includes both binaries and configuration.
+  # In order to let nixpkgs do all its autostripping/patching/etc, we split this into two derivations.
+  # First, we build all the binaries that get packed into the thick k3s binary
+  # (and output them from one derivation so they'll all be suitably patched up).
+  # Then, we bundle those binaries into our thick k3s binary and use that as
+  # the final single output.
+  # This approach was chosen because it ensures the bundled binaries all are
+  # correctly built to run with nix (we can lean on the existing buildGoModule
+  # stuff), and we can again lean on that tooling for the final k3s binary too.
+  # Other alternatives would be to manually run the
+  # strip/patchelf/remove-references step ourselves in the installPhase of the
+  # derivation when we've built all the binaries, but haven't bundled them in
+  # with generated bindata yet.
+
+  k3sServer = buildGoModule rec {
+    pname = "k3s-server";
+    version = k3sVersion;
+
+    src = k3sRepo;
+    vendorSha256 = k3sVendorSha256;
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+    buildInputs = [ libseccomp ];
+
+    subPackages = [ "cmd/server" ];
+    ldflags = versionldflags;
+
+    # create the multicall symlinks for k3s
+    postInstall = ''
+      mv $out/bin/server $out/bin/k3s
+      pushd $out
+      # taken verbatim from https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/v1.23.3%2Bk3s1/scripts/build#L105-L113
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-agent
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-server
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-etcd-snapshot
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-secrets-encrypt
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/k3s-certificate
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/kubectl
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/crictl
+      ln -s k3s ./bin/ctr
+      popd
+    '';
+
+    meta = baseMeta // {
+      description = "The various binaries that get packaged into the final k3s binary";
+    };
+  };
+  k3sContainerd = buildGoModule {
+    pname = "k3s-containerd";
+    version = containerdVersion;
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "k3s-io";
+      repo = "containerd";
+      rev = "v${containerdVersion}";
+      sha256 = containerdSha256;
+    };
+    vendorSha256 = null;
+    buildInputs = [ btrfs-progs ];
+    subPackages = [ "cmd/containerd" "cmd/containerd-shim-runc-v2" ];
+    ldflags = versionldflags;
+  };
+in
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "k3s";
+  version = k3sVersion;
+
+  src = k3sRepo;
+  vendorSha256 = k3sVendorSha256;
+
+  patches = [
+    ./0001-script-download-strip-downloading-just-package-CRD.patch
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Nix prefers dynamically linked binaries over static binary.
+
+    substituteInPlace scripts/package-cli \
+      --replace '"$LDFLAGS $STATIC" -o' \
+                '"$LDFLAGS" -o' \
+      --replace "STATIC=\"-extldflags \'-static\'\"" \
+                ""
+
+    # Upstream codegen fails with trimpath set. Removes "trimpath" for 'go generate':
+
+    substituteInPlace scripts/package-cli \
+      --replace '"''${GO}" generate' \
+                'GOFLAGS="" \
+                 GOOS="${pkgsBuildBuild.go.GOOS}" \
+                 GOARCH="${pkgsBuildBuild.go.GOARCH}" \
+                 CC="${pkgsBuildBuild.stdenv.cc}/bin/cc" \
+                 "''${GO}" generate'
+  '';
+
+  # Important utilities used by the kubelet, see
+  # https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/26093#issuecomment-237202494
+  # Note the list in that issue is stale and some aren't relevant for k3s.
+  k3sRuntimeDeps = [
+    kmod
+    socat
+    iptables
+    iproute2
+    bridge-utils
+    ethtool
+    util-linux # kubelet wants 'nsenter' from util-linux: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/26093#issuecomment-705994388
+    conntrack-tools
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = k3sRuntimeDeps;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    makeWrapper
+    rsync
+    yq-go
+    zstd
+  ];
+
+  # embedded in the final k3s cli
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    k3sCNIPlugins
+    k3sContainerd
+    k3sServer
+    runc
+  ];
+
+  # We override most of buildPhase due to peculiarities in k3s's build.
+  # Specifically, it has a 'go generate' which runs part of the package. See
+  # this comment:
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/158089#discussion_r799965694
+  # So, why do we use buildGoModule at all? For the `vendorSha256` / `go mod download` stuff primarily.
+  buildPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs ./scripts/package-cli ./scripts/download ./scripts/build-upload
+
+    # copy needed 'go generate' inputs into place
+    mkdir -p ./bin/aux
+    rsync -a --no-perms ${k3sServer}/bin/ ./bin/
+    ln -vsf ${runc}/bin/runc ./bin/runc
+    ln -vsf ${k3sCNIPlugins}/bin/cni ./bin/cni
+    ln -vsf ${k3sContainerd}/bin/* ./bin/
+    rsync -a --no-perms --chmod u=rwX ${k3sRoot}/etc/ ./etc/
+    mkdir -p ./build/static/charts
+    # Note, upstream's chart has a 00 suffix. This seems to not matter though, so we're ignoring that naming detail.
+    export TRAEFIK_CHART_FILE=${traefikChart}
+    # place the traefik chart using their code since it's complicated
+    # We trim the actual download, see patches
+    ./scripts/download
+
+    export ARCH=$GOARCH
+    export DRONE_TAG="v${k3sVersion}"
+    export DRONE_COMMIT="${k3sCommit}"
+    # use ./scripts/package-cli to run 'go generate' + 'go build'
+
+    ./scripts/package-cli
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+  '';
+
+  # Otherwise it depends on 'getGoDirs', which is normally set in buildPhase
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    # wildcard to match the arm64 build too
+    install -m 0755 dist/artifacts/k3s* -D $out/bin/k3s
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/k3s \
+      --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath k3sRuntimeDeps} \
+      --prefix PATH : "$out/bin"
+  '';
+
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+  installCheckPhase = ''
+    $out/bin/k3s --version | grep -F "v${k3sVersion}" >/dev/null
+  '';
+
+  # Fix-Me: Needs to be adapted specifically for 1.25
+  # passthru.updateScript = ./update.sh;
+
+  # Fix-Me: Needs to be adapted specifically for 1.25
+  # passthru.tests = nixosTests.k3s;
+
+  meta = baseMeta;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/chart-versions.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26/chart-versions.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/chart-versions.nix
rename to pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26/chart-versions.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26/default.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/default.nix
rename to pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26/default.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26/update.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/update.sh
rename to pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26/update.sh
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9713f167e4277..3a2404b7e402a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -30585,7 +30585,11 @@ with pkgs;
 
   jwm-settings-manager = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/jwm/jwm-settings-manager.nix { };
 
-  k3s = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3s { };
+  k3s_1_23 = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_23 { };
+  k3s_1_24 = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_24 { };
+  k3s_1_25 = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_25 { };
+  k3s_1_26 = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3s/1_26 { };
+  k3s = k3s_1_26;
 
   k3sup = callPackage ../applications/networking/cluster/k3sup {};