diff --git a/cmd/k3s/main.go b/cmd/k3s/main.go
index 20055c7e63..016ec4bac7 100644
--- a/cmd/k3s/main.go
+++ b/cmd/k3s/main.go
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ func main() {
 		cmds.NewKubectlCommand(externalCLIAction("kubectl")),
 		cmds.NewCRICTL(externalCLIAction("crictl")),
 		cmds.NewCtrCommand(externalCLIAction("ctr")),
+		cmds.NewCheckConfigCommand(externalCLIAction("check-config")),
 	}
 
 	err := app.Run(os.Args)
diff --git a/contrib/util/check-config.sh b/contrib/util/check-config.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..fade3575b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/util/check-config.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,490 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+EXITCODE=0
+
+# rancher/k3s modified from
+# https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/c831882/contrib/check-config.sh
+
+# bits of this were adapted from lxc-checkconfig for moby
+# see also https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/lxc-1.0.2/src/lxc/lxc-checkconfig.in
+
+uname=$(uname -r)
+
+possibleConfigs="
+  /proc/config.gz
+  /boot/config-${uname}
+  /boot/config-${uname##*-}
+  /usr/src/linux-${uname}/.config
+  /usr/src/linux/.config
+"
+
+if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
+  CONFIG="$1"
+fi
+
+if ! command -v zgrep >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  zgrep() {
+    zcat "$2" | grep "$1"
+  }
+fi
+
+configFormat=gz
+
+dogrep() {
+  if [ "$configFormat" = "gz" ]; then
+    zgrep "$1" "$2"
+  else
+    grep "$1" "$2"
+  fi
+}
+
+kernelVersion="$(uname -r)"
+kernelMajor="${kernelVersion%%.*}"
+kernelMinor="${kernelVersion#$kernelMajor.}"
+kernelMinor="${kernelMinor%%.*}"
+
+is_set() {
+  dogrep "CONFIG_$1=[y|m]" "$CONFIG" > /dev/null
+}
+is_set_in_kernel() {
+  dogrep "CONFIG_$1=y" "$CONFIG" > /dev/null
+}
+is_set_as_module() {
+  dogrep "CONFIG_$1=m" "$CONFIG" > /dev/null
+}
+
+color() {
+  codes=
+  if [ "$1" = 'bold' ]; then
+    codes=1
+    shift
+  fi
+  if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
+    code=
+    case "$1" in
+      # see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors
+      black) code=30 ;;
+      red) code=31 ;;
+      green) code=32 ;;
+      yellow) code=33 ;;
+      blue) code=34 ;;
+      magenta) code=35 ;;
+      cyan) code=36 ;;
+      white) code=37 ;;
+    esac
+    if [ "$code" ]; then
+      [ "$codes" ] && codes="${codes};"
+      codes="${codes}${code}"
+    fi
+  fi
+  printf '\033['"$codes"'m'
+}
+wrap_color() {
+  text="$1"
+  shift
+  color "$@"
+  echo -n "$text"
+  color reset
+  echo
+}
+
+wrap_good() {
+  echo "$(wrap_color "$1" white): $(wrap_color "$2" green)"
+}
+wrap_bad() {
+  echo "$(wrap_color "$1" bold): $(wrap_color "$2" bold red)"
+}
+wrap_warn() {
+  echo "$(wrap_color "$1" bold): $(wrap_color "$2" bold yellow)"
+}
+warning() {
+  wrap_color >&2 "$*" yellow
+}
+
+check_flag() {
+  if is_set_in_kernel "$1"; then
+    wrap_good "CONFIG_$1" 'enabled'
+  elif is_set_as_module "$1"; then
+    wrap_good "CONFIG_$1" 'enabled (as module)'
+  else
+    if [ "$IS_ERROR" = 1 ]; then
+      wrap_bad "CONFIG_$1" 'missing'
+      EXITCODE=1
+    else
+      wrap_warn "CONFIG_$1" 'missing'
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+check_flags() {
+  for flag in "$@"; do
+    echo -n "- "; check_flag "$flag"
+  done
+}
+
+check_command() {
+  if command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    wrap_good "$1 command" 'available'
+  else
+    wrap_bad "$1 command" 'missing'
+    EXITCODE=1
+  fi
+}
+
+check_device() {
+  if [ -c "$1" ]; then
+    wrap_good "$1" 'present'
+  else
+    wrap_bad "$1" 'missing'
+    EXITCODE=1
+  fi
+}
+
+check_distro_userns() {
+  [ -s /etc/os-release ] || return 0
+  source /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null || true
+  if ( echo "${ID}" | grep -q -E '^(centos|rhel)$' ) && \
+    ( echo "${VERSION_ID}" | grep -q -E '^7' ); then
+    # this is a CentOS7 or RHEL7 system
+    if ! grep -q "user_namespace.enable=1" /proc/cmdline; then
+      # no user namespace support enabled
+      wrap_bad "  (RHEL7/CentOS7" "User namespaces disabled; add 'user_namespace.enable=1' to boot command line)"
+      EXITCODE=1
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+# ---
+
+echo
+
+{
+  BINDIR=$(dirname "$0")
+  cd $BINDIR
+  echo "Verifying binaries in $BINDIR:"
+
+  if [ -s .sha256sums ]; then
+    sumsTemp=$(mktemp)
+    if sha256sum -c .sha256sums >$sumsTemp 2>&1; then
+      wrap_good '- sha256sum' 'good'
+    else
+      wrap_bad '- sha256sum' 'does not match'
+      cat $sumsTemp | sed -e 's/^/  ... /'
+      EXITCODE=1
+    fi
+    rm -f $sumsTemp
+  else
+    wrap_warn '- sha256sum' 'sha256sums unavailable'
+  fi
+
+  linkFail=0
+  if [ -s .links ]; then
+    while read file link; do
+      if [ "$(readlink $file)" != "$link" ]; then
+        wrap_bad '- links' "$file should link to $link"
+        linkFail=1
+      fi
+    done <.links
+    if [ $linkFail -eq 0 ]; then
+      wrap_good '- links' 'good'
+    else
+      EXITCODE=1
+    fi
+  else
+    wrap_warn '- links' 'link list unavailable'
+  fi
+
+  cd - >/dev/null
+}
+
+echo
+
+{
+  version_ge() {
+    [ "$1" = "$2" ] || [ "$(printf '%s\n' "$@" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$1" ]
+  }
+
+  echo "System:"
+  iptablesInfo=$(iptables --version)
+  iptablesVersion=$(echo $iptablesInfo | awk '{ print $2 }')
+  if version_ge $iptablesVersion v1.8.0; then
+    iptablesMode=$(echo $iptablesInfo | awk '{ print $3 }')
+    if [ "$iptablesMode" != "(legacy)" ]; then
+      wrap_bad "- $iptablesInfo" 'should be older than v1.8.0 or in legacy mode'
+      EXITCODE=1
+    else
+      wrap_good "- $iptablesInfo" 'ok'
+    fi
+  else
+    wrap_good "- $iptablesInfo" 'older than v1.8'
+  fi
+
+  totalSwap=$(free | grep -i '^swap:' | awk '{ print $2 }')
+  if [ "$totalSwap" != "0" ]; then
+    wrap_warn '- swap' 'should be disabled'
+  else
+    wrap_good '- swap' 'disabled'
+  fi
+
+  if ip route | grep -v cni0 | grep -q -E '^10\.(42|43)\.'; then
+    wrap_warn '- routes' 'default CIDRs 10.42.0.0/16 or 10.43.0.0/16 already routed'
+  else
+    wrap_good '- routes' 'ok'
+  fi
+}
+
+echo
+
+{
+  check_limit_over()
+  {
+    if [ "$(cat "$1")" -le "$2" ]; then
+      wrap_bad "- $1" "$(cat "$1")"
+      wrap_color "    This should be set to at least $2, for example set: sysctl -w kernel/keys/root_maxkeys=1000000" bold black
+      EXITCODE=1
+    else
+      wrap_good "- $1" "$(cat "$1")"
+    fi
+  }
+
+  echo 'Limits:'
+  check_limit_over /proc/sys/kernel/keys/root_maxkeys 10000
+}
+
+echo
+
+# ---
+
+SUDO=
+[ $(id -u) -ne 0 ] && SUDO=sudo
+lsmod | grep -q configs || $SUDO modprobe configs || true
+
+if [ -z "$CONFIG" ]; then
+  for tryConfig in ${possibleConfigs}; do
+    if [ -e "$tryConfig" ]; then
+      CONFIG="$tryConfig"
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+fi
+if [ ! -e "$CONFIG" ]; then
+  case "$CONFIG" in
+    -*)
+      warning "error: argument $CONFIG"
+      ;;
+    *)
+      warning "error: cannot find kernel config $CONFIG"
+      ;;
+  esac
+  warning "  try running this script again, specifying the kernel config:"
+  warning "  set CONFIG=/path/to/kernel/.config or add argument /path/to/kernel/.config"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+wrap_color "info: reading kernel config from $CONFIG ..." cyan
+zcat $CONFIG >/dev/null 2>&1 || configFormat=
+
+echo
+
+echo 'Generally Necessary:'
+
+echo -n '- '
+cgroupSubsystemDir="$(awk '/[, ](cpu|cpuacct|cpuset|devices|freezer|memory)[, ]/ && $3 == "cgroup" { print $2 }' /proc/mounts | head -n1)"
+cgroupDir="$(dirname "$cgroupSubsystemDir")"
+if [ -d "$cgroupDir/cpu" ] || [ -d "$cgroupDir/cpuacct" ] || [ -d "$cgroupDir/cpuset" ] || [  -d "$cgroupDir/devices" ] || [ -d "$cgroupDir/freezer" ] || [ -d "$cgroupDir/memory" ]; then
+  echo "$(wrap_good 'cgroup hierarchy' 'properly mounted') [$cgroupDir]"
+else
+  if [ "$cgroupSubsystemDir" ]; then
+    echo "$(wrap_bad 'cgroup hierarchy' 'single mountpoint!') [$cgroupSubsystemDir]"
+  else
+    wrap_bad 'cgroup hierarchy' 'nonexistent??'
+  fi
+  EXITCODE=1
+  echo "    $(wrap_color '(see https://github.com/tianon/cgroupfs-mount)' yellow)"
+fi
+
+if [ "$(cat /sys/module/apparmor/parameters/enabled 2>/dev/null)" = 'Y' ]; then
+  echo -n '- '
+  if command -v apparmor_parser &> /dev/null; then
+    wrap_good 'apparmor' 'enabled and tools installed'
+  else
+    wrap_bad 'apparmor' 'enabled, but apparmor_parser missing'
+    echo -n '    '
+    if command -v apt-get &> /dev/null; then
+      wrap_color '(use "apt-get install apparmor" to fix this)'
+    elif command -v yum &> /dev/null; then
+      wrap_color '(your best bet is "yum install apparmor-parser")'
+    else
+      wrap_color '(look for an "apparmor" package for your distribution)'
+    fi
+    EXITCODE=1
+  fi
+fi
+
+flags="
+  NAMESPACES NET_NS PID_NS IPC_NS UTS_NS
+  CGROUPS CGROUP_CPUACCT CGROUP_DEVICE CGROUP_FREEZER CGROUP_SCHED CPUSETS MEMCG
+  KEYS
+  VETH BRIDGE BRIDGE_NETFILTER
+  NF_NAT_IPV4 IP_NF_FILTER IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE
+  NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ADDRTYPE NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_CONNTRACK NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_IPVS
+  IP_NF_NAT NF_NAT NF_NAT_NEEDED
+  POSIX_MQUEUE
+"
+IS_ERROR=1 check_flags $flags
+if [ "$kernelMajor" -lt 4 ] || ( [ "$kernelMajor" -eq 4 ] && [ "$kernelMinor" -lt 8 ] ); then
+  check_flags DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
+fi
+
+echo
+
+echo 'Optional Features:'
+{
+  check_flags USER_NS
+  check_distro_userns
+}
+{
+  check_flags SECCOMP
+}
+{
+  check_flags CGROUP_PIDS
+}
+# {
+#   CODE=${EXITCODE}
+#   check_flags MEMCG_SWAP MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED
+#   if [ -e /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes ]; then
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color '(cgroup swap accounting is currently enabled)' bold black)"
+#     EXITCODE=${CODE}
+#   elif is_set MEMCG_SWAP && ! is_set MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED; then
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color '(cgroup swap accounting is currently not enabled, you can enable it by setting boot option "swapaccount=1")' bold black)"
+#   fi
+# }
+# {
+#   if is_set LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE; then
+#     echo -n "- "; wrap_bad "CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE" 'enabled'
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color '(dangerous, provides an ASLR-bypassing target with usable ROP gadgets.)' bold black)"
+#   elif is_set LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE; then
+#     echo -n "- "; wrap_good "CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE" 'enabled'
+#   elif is_set LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE; then
+#     echo -n "- "; wrap_bad "CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE" 'enabled'
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color '(containers using eglibc <= 2.13 will not work. Switch to' bold black)"
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color ' "CONFIG_VSYSCALL_[NATIVE|EMULATE]" or use "vsyscall=[native|emulate]"' bold black)"
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color ' on kernel command line. Note that this will disable ASLR for the,' bold black)"
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color ' VDSO which may assist in exploiting security vulnerabilities.)' bold black)"
+#   # else Older kernels (prior to 3dc33bd30f3e, released in v4.40-rc1) do
+#   #      not have these LEGACY_VSYSCALL options and are effectively
+#   #      LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE. Even older kernels are presumably
+#   #      effectively LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE.
+#   fi
+# }
+
+if [ "$kernelMajor" -lt 4 ] || ( [ "$kernelMajor" -eq 4 ] && [ "$kernelMinor" -le 5 ] ); then
+  check_flags MEMCG_KMEM
+fi
+
+if [ "$kernelMajor" -lt 3 ] || ( [ "$kernelMajor" -eq 3 ] && [ "$kernelMinor" -le 18 ] ); then
+  check_flags RESOURCE_COUNTERS
+fi
+
+if [ "$kernelMajor" -lt 3 ] || ( [ "$kernelMajor" -eq 3 ] && [ "$kernelMinor" -le 13 ] ); then
+  netprio=NETPRIO_CGROUP
+else
+  netprio=CGROUP_NET_PRIO
+fi
+
+# IOSCHED_CFQ CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
+flags="
+  BLK_CGROUP BLK_DEV_THROTTLING 
+  CGROUP_PERF
+  CGROUP_HUGETLB
+  NET_CLS_CGROUP $netprio
+  CFS_BANDWIDTH FAIR_GROUP_SCHED RT_GROUP_SCHED
+  IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT
+  IP_VS
+  IP_VS_NFCT
+  IP_VS_PROTO_TCP
+  IP_VS_PROTO_UDP
+   IP_VS_RR
+"
+check_flags $flags
+
+# if ! is_set EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2; then
+#   check_flags EXT3_FS EXT3_FS_XATTR EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL EXT3_FS_SECURITY
+#   if ! is_set EXT3_FS || ! is_set EXT3_FS_XATTR || ! is_set EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL || ! is_set EXT3_FS_SECURITY; then
+#     echo "    $(wrap_color '(enable these ext3 configs if you are using ext3 as backing filesystem)' bold black)"
+#   fi
+# fi
+
+check_flags EXT4_FS EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL EXT4_FS_SECURITY
+if ! is_set EXT4_FS || ! is_set EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL || ! is_set EXT4_FS_SECURITY; then
+  if is_set EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2; then
+    echo "    $(wrap_color 'enable these ext4 configs if you are using ext3 or ext4 as backing filesystem' bold black)"
+  else
+    echo "    $(wrap_color 'enable these ext4 configs if you are using ext4 as backing filesystem' bold black)"
+  fi
+fi
+
+echo '- Network Drivers:'
+echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'overlay' blue)\":"
+check_flags VXLAN | sed 's/^/    /' # BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING
+echo '      Optional (for encrypted networks):'
+check_flags CRYPTO CRYPTO_AEAD CRYPTO_GCM CRYPTO_SEQIV CRYPTO_GHASH \
+            XFRM XFRM_USER XFRM_ALGO INET_ESP INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT | sed 's/^/      /'
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'ipvlan' blue)\":"
+# check_flags IPVLAN | sed 's/^/    /'
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'macvlan' blue)\":"
+# check_flags MACVLAN DUMMY | sed 's/^/    /'
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'ftp,tftp client in container' blue)\":"
+# check_flags NF_NAT_FTP NF_CONNTRACK_FTP NF_NAT_TFTP NF_CONNTRACK_TFTP | sed 's/^/    /'
+
+# only fail if no storage drivers available
+CODE=${EXITCODE}
+EXITCODE=0
+STORAGE=1
+
+echo '- Storage Drivers:'
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'aufs' blue)\":"
+# check_flags AUFS_FS | sed 's/^/    /'
+# if ! is_set AUFS_FS && grep -q aufs /proc/filesystems; then
+#   echo "      $(wrap_color '(note that some kernels include AUFS patches but not the AUFS_FS flag)' bold black)"
+# fi
+# [ "$EXITCODE" = 0 ] && STORAGE=0
+# EXITCODE=0
+
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'btrfs' blue)\":"
+# check_flags BTRFS_FS | sed 's/^/    /'
+# check_flags BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL | sed 's/^/    /'
+# [ "$EXITCODE" = 0 ] && STORAGE=0
+# EXITCODE=0
+
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'devicemapper' blue)\":"
+# check_flags BLK_DEV_DM DM_THIN_PROVISIONING | sed 's/^/    /'
+# [ "$EXITCODE" = 0 ] && STORAGE=0
+# EXITCODE=0
+
+echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'overlay' blue)\":"
+check_flags OVERLAY_FS | sed 's/^/    /'
+[ "$EXITCODE" = 0 ] && STORAGE=0
+EXITCODE=0
+
+# echo "  - \"$(wrap_color 'zfs' blue)\":"
+# echo -n "    - "; check_device /dev/zfs
+# echo -n "    - "; check_command zfs
+# echo -n "    - "; check_command zpool
+# [ "$EXITCODE" = 0 ] && STORAGE=0
+# EXITCODE=0
+
+EXITCODE=$CODE
+[ "$STORAGE" = 1 ] && EXITCODE=1
+
+# ---
+
+echo
+if [ $EXITCODE -eq 0 ]; then
+  wrap_good 'STATUS' 'pass'
+else
+  wrap_bad 'STATUS' 'fail'
+fi
+
+exit $EXITCODE
diff --git a/pkg/cli/cmds/check-config.go b/pkg/cli/cmds/check-config.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ead97e47a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/cli/cmds/check-config.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package cmds
+
+import (
+	"github.com/urfave/cli"
+)
+
+func NewCheckConfigCommand(action func(*cli.Context) error) cli.Command {
+	return cli.Command{
+		Name:            "check-config",
+		Usage:           "Run config check",
+		SkipFlagParsing: true,
+		SkipArgReorder:  true,
+		Action:          action,
+	}
+}
diff --git a/scripts/package-cli b/scripts/package-cli
index 8d473e82e4..0aac10bb24 100755
--- a/scripts/package-cli
+++ b/scripts/package-cli
@@ -17,11 +17,24 @@ for i in bridge flannel host-local loopback portmap; do
     ln -s cni ./bin/$i
 done
 
+cp contrib/util/check-config.sh bin/check-config
 
 rm -rf build/data
 mkdir -p build/data build/out
 mkdir -p dist/artifacts
 
+(
+    set +x
+    cd bin
+    find . -not -path '*/\.*' -type f -exec sha256sum {} \; | sed -e 's| \./| |' | sort -k2 >.sha256sums
+    (
+        for f in $(find . -type l); do
+            echo $f $(readlink $f)
+        done
+    ) | sed -e 's|^\./||' | sort >.links
+    set -x
+)
+
 tar cvzf ./build/out/data.tar.gz --exclude ./bin/hyperkube ./bin ./etc
 HASH=$(sha256sum ./build/out/data.tar.gz | awk '{print $1}')
 
diff --git a/scripts/sonobuoy b/scripts/sonobuoy
index 8d7285ad00..182739f973 100755
--- a/scripts/sonobuoy
+++ b/scripts/sonobuoy
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ docker run -d --name ${K3S_SERVER} --privileged \
 K3S_IP=$(docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' ${K3S_SERVER})
 echo "Started ${K3S_SERVER} @ ${K3S_IP}:${K3S_PORT}"
 
+docker exec ${K3S_SERVER} check-config || true
 timeout --foreground 1m bash -c wait-for-kubeconfig
 verify-valid-versions ${K3S_SERVER}