It is a lightweight wrapper to run k3s (Rancher Lab’s minimal Kubernetes distribution) in docker. It makes it very easy to create single- and multi-node k3s clusters in docker, e.g. for local development on Kubernetes.
K3d is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
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What are some alternatives to K3d?
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 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.
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.
Docker, Kubernetes, k3s are some of the popular tools that integrate with K3d. Here's a list of all 3 tools that integrate with K3d.
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