k3d VS kops

Compare k3d vs kops and see what are their differences.

k3d

Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker (by k3d-io)

kops

Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management (by kubernetes)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
k3d kops
76 47
5,028 15,492
2.6% 0.6%
7.3 9.9
4 days ago 8 days ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

k3d

Posts with mentions or reviews of k3d. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-25.

kops

Posts with mentions or reviews of kops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing k3d and kops you can also consider the following projects:

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

k0s - k0s - The Zero Friction Kubernetes

k3sup - bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

cluster-api - Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

rancher - Complete container management platform

terraform-provider-proxmox - Terraform provider plugin for proxmox

csi-driver-smb - This driver allows Kubernetes to access SMB Server on both Linux and Windows nodes.