| k3s | k0s | |
|---|---|---|
| 317 | 33 | |
| 29,598 | 4,834 | |
| 1.5% | 5.2% | |
| 9.7 | 9.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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.
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.
k3s
Posts with mentions or reviews of k3s.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-11.
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The Ultimate Kubernetes Guide: From Zero to Production-Ready
K3s
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DevOps in 2025: the future is automated, git-ified, and kinda scary but fun.
k3s or kind for local Kubernetes
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How to Build and Run K3s on macOS with Multipass and k3d
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s.git
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Edge Computing: The Future of Cloud & DevOps
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
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Building a declarative home lab using k3s, Ansible, Helm on NixOS and Rocky Linux
Kubernetes with K3s
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Let's Build Together: A Local Playground for Apache Polaris
A lightweight k3s Kubernetes cluster using k3d
- Implémenter le Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) de manière privée sur Kubernetes avec KubeAI et…
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Scaling Spin Apps With KEDA
Setting up the Kubernetes cluster and the AWS SQS queue is outside the scope of this article, but you can deploy an Amazon EKS cluster by following this guide, or use k3s as a lightweight, local alternative. For setting up an SQS queue, refer to this tutorial.
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My 2024 review
Start with small-scale experiments using k3s/k3d
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Using SpinKube on Kairos
This will initialize K3S (a lightweight Kubernetes distribution), and will configure the Kairos SpinKube bundle we will install in a moment.
k0s
Posts with mentions or reviews of k0s.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-18.
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Awesome Kubernetes Resources !!! 🔥
💚k0s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - k0s - Zero Friction Kubernetes (The Simple, Solid & Certified Kubernetes Distribution)
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Seeking Guidance for Transitioning to Kubernetes and SRE/DevOps for traditional infrastructure team
I am myself studying it and going through the official documentation and toying with k8s flavors like kind, k3s and k0s.
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I was so excited to join this community
There's a whole community of hobbyists building Raspberry Pi clusters, porting things to work on various Arm processors, exploring and contributing to minimalist distros like k0s and microk8s, etc.
- Blog: KWOK: Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet
- KWOK : mettre en place un cluster de milliers de nœuds en quelques secondes …
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vcluster as a Service
I use k0s btw ,and it is fantastic.
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Any Kubernetes provider you could recommend me?
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "k0s"
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Some thoughts on cert-manager moving from Bazel to Make
So for example, in my own personal infra repos and for projects I do, Make orchestrates Pulumi, dnscontrol (Holy shit is that tool underrated), ansible, k0s/k0sctl (I run that distro), and all the kubernetes stuff.
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Is the Synology NAS able to run a Kubernetes Cluster ?
I wasn’t able to run Kubernetes in NAS last time I tried it. https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s/issues/1184. As for public access you don’t want to do it for security reasons and instead rely on vpn. Tailscale and ZeroTier are easy to setup.
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Kubernetes at Home With K3s
I prefer k0s, https://k0sproject.io/ .
What are some alternatives?
When comparing k3s and k0s you can also consider the following projects:
kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
minikube - Run Kubernetes locally
k3d - Little helper to run CNCF's k3s in Docker
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes