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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Score 9.1 out of 10
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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
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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 …
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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Internet of Things
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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
IoT Device Management8.01 Ratings
Device Security8.01 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Enterprises
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 7.6 out of 10
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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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User Testimonials
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
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
SUSE
  • Virtual clusters
  • IoT devices
  • Local development
  • Raspberry Pi
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Cons
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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Alternatives Considered
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
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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