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CommentsWhat 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 Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
ARM64 and ARMv7 supportSimplified installationSQLite3 supportetcd supportAutomatic Manifest and Helm Chart managementcontainerd, CoreDNS, Flannel support
k3s Pros & Cons
Pros of k3s
- ✓Lightweight
- ✓Easy
- ✓Open Source
- ✓Replication Controller
- ✓Scale Services
Cons of k3s
No cons listed yet.
k3s Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to k3s?
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.
Docker Compose
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.
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.
