k3s VS microk8s

K3s

k3s or kind for local Kubernetes

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s.git

K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

Kubernetes with K3s

A lightweight k3s Kubernetes cluster using k3d

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.

Start with small-scale experiments using k3s/k3d

This will initialize K3S (a lightweight Kubernetes distribution), and will configure the Kairos SpinKube bundle we will install in a moment.

Don't use Canonical's Kubernetes support, because microk8s is a disaster.

Here is a stylized post of what your experience is going to be when you ask for support from Canonical for Kubernetes in microk8s: https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/3227#issuecomme...

They are really talented guys but microk8s is a fiasco.

https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/4462

In the last few years, we’ve witnessed the introduction of several new lightweight Kubernetes distributions. SUSE’s Rancher Labs k3s project was one of the earliest. Canonical now includes Microk8s in Ubuntu. And k0s is a single-binary Kubernetes distribution.

When there are no DevOps engineers in the team, but you really want to embed the application in Kubernetes, you can easily do this using https://microk8s.io in this post, I will describe how to do this and open access to the application on a specific port.

I'm not surprised, seeing how this disease has even infected OSS/Linux.

https://github.com/canonical/microk8s/issues/1022

A k8s variety. By Canonical. Screams production, no one is using this for their gaming PC. Snap auto-updates enabled.

Whilst the production namespace ran on the production VPS server running a MicroK8 single node cluster, the other 2 namespaces ran on my laptop using the K8 engine which comes with docker desktop.

If you want hands-on practice you should have a running Kubernetes cluster (I used MicroK8s for this tutorial) and Helm (see how to install on Installing Helm tutorial). It is important that you understand the basics of these tools to fully understand.

And install microk8s:

MicroK8s is a lightweight, batteries included Kubernetes distribution by Canonical designed for running edge workloads which also happens to be developer-friendly and a great choice for building your own homelab. The following lab covers how to install and run MicroK8s on your own edge node running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, deploy the NGINX web service and exposing your NGINX website to the Internet with SSL/TLS enabled using AWS resources included within the Free Tier.