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JFrog Connect vs. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JFrog Connect
Score 9.0 out of 10
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A plug & play device management platform for IoT and Linux devices. With JFrog Connect, users can deploy OTA updates, control, monitor, access, and secure IoT and Linux devices remotely. It is designed to enable users to connect any type of Linux or IoT device in less than 60 seconds. Since the September 2021 acquisition, Upswift is now a JFrog company, and will become part of the JFrog solution and DevOps platform.N/A
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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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Internet of Things
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JFrog Connect
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Ratings
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
IoT Device Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Device Security00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies

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User Ratings
JFrog ConnectK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
JFrog ConnectK3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend
JFrog
For us, it has been well suited for monitoring devices that are placed remotely and have no easy access to. Most of our devices are sent to customers which we have little or no contact with. Rather than the customers finding a problem, reporting it to us and then us investigating it. We can just be notified of the problem and deal with it without the customer realising.
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Jamie Wainwright
Company Director/Developer
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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
JFrog
  • Accelerates remote management for iot devices
  • Allows for remote upgrades and fleet management
  • Alerts us when devices go offline allowing us to be more proactive with our customers
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Sam Yeats
Founder
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SUSE
  • Virtual clusters
  • IoT devices
  • Local development
  • Raspberry Pi
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Cons
JFrog
  • Nothing at this stage
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Sam Yeats
Founder
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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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Alternatives Considered
JFrog
I haven't really found any other product or service which does the same as UpSwift, therefore I have not needed to look for alternative products
JW
Jamie Wainwright
Company Director/Developer
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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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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
JFrog
  • Ability to scale our network
JW
Jamie Wainwright
Company Director/Developer
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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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