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Crestron XiO vs. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Crestron XiO
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Crestron, headquartered in New Jersey, offers Crestron XiO, an Internet of Things (IoT) device management platform which provides automated hardware patching and firmware updates, device connectivity and condition monitoring, and analytics platform for tracking device usage.
$1
Per Room Per Month
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
K3s is a lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing, developed by Rancher Labs, which is now supported by SUSE since the 2020 acquisition. K3s is available free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license.N/A
Pricing
Crestron XiOK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Editions & Modules
API Access
$1.00
Per Room Per Month
Endpoint Management
$3.00
Per Room Per Month
Support
$4.00
Per Room Per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Crestron XiOK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Crestron XiOK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Internet of Things
Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
Crestron XiO
7.5
1 Ratings
5% below category average
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
IoT Device Management8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Device Security7.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
IoT Data Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IoT Analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies

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Enterprises
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 7.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Crestron XiOK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Crestron XiOK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
Crestron Electronics
XiO is definitely well suited for applications like ours where we have a large number of devices to manage. I like being able to see all my devices and locations in one place. It is very helpful to see if any devices are offline each morning and be able to troubleshoot before any customers realize there is a problem
JJ
Jill Jung
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SUSE
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is well suited for local development. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not well suited when you need backward support. In the case that you want to test an application that is still using deprecated APIs or CRDs which are supported on popular managed Cloud Kubernetes Distributions, because K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is trying to be a lightweight application and dropping early support for APIs/CRDs marked for deprication K3s Lightweight Kubernetes will not be a good solution. If you are trying to test Kubernetes etc, functionality, K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not a good case since it's using Dqlite or SQLite.
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Pros
Crestron Electronics
  • Scheduled re-boots and updates
  • I like the way the hierarchy can be set up
  • individually customizable group settings within the hierarchy
  • I like the capability of setting up background images for brand promotion or employee information
JJ
Jill Jung
Conference Room Tech Specialist/IT Support
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SUSE
  • Virtual clusters
  • IoT devices
  • Local development
  • Raspberry Pi
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Cons
Crestron Electronics
  • I would like the option to choose IP addresses as one of the viewable columns when looking at/sorting through all your available devices.
  • It would be nice to be able to link the IP address listed directly to their devices.
  • Sometime trying to reboot a device in XiO does not work for me and I need to go directly to the device's admin page.
JJ
Jill Jung
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SUSE
  • Option to deploy a self managed k3s in the cloud
  • Support to deploy it with kubeadm
  • Integration with prometheus & grafana
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Likelihood to Renew
Crestron Electronics
XiO is a necessity when managing the large number of device our company has
JJ
Jill Jung
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SUSE
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Alternatives Considered
Crestron Electronics
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SUSE
We have mostly used kind, minikube, and Docker Desktop Kubernetes for local development. Only kind has lower resource requirements, but K3s Lightweight Kubernetes seems to be even lighter. It is a big benefit to be able to deploy a K3s Lightweight Kubernetes cluster in seconds locally in our workstation, there is no cost, and it makes it easy to redeploy from scratch no matter how many times we want. The removal of deprecated APIs or CRDs also makes it more secure since it reduces unnecessarily exposed attack vectors.
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Return on Investment
Crestron Electronics
  • being able to manage all my devices remotely saves us time/money
  • XiO reduces the need to have someone on-site/in person to manage my devices
JJ
Jill Jung
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SUSE
  • Engineers have been able to run more microservices locally with K3s Lightweight Kubernetes instead of Minikube, which is more resources hungry
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Anonymous
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