What is k3s?
Certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. Supports something as small as a Raspberry Pi or as large as an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server.
k3s is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
k3s is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to k3s's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses k3s?
Companies
12 companies reportedly use k3s in their tech stacks, including Travel-Wallet, Qubitro, and Mitigate.
Developers
79 developers on StackShare have stated that they use k3s.
k3s Integrations
Kubernetes, SQLite, Devops Stack, k3sup, and K3d are some of the popular tools that integrate with k3s. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with k3s.
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Decisions about k3s
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose k3s in their tech stack.
Enzo Gehlen
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k3s's Features
- ARM64 and ARMv7 support
- Simplified installation
- SQLite3 support
- etcd support
- Automatic Manifest and Helm Chart management
- containerd, CoreDNS, Flannel support
k3s Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to k3s?
Kind
It is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”.
It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
Docker Swarm
Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
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