Our great sponsors
-
hetzner-k3s
A CLI tool to create and manage Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner Cloud using the lightweight distribution k3s by Rancher.
-
firecracker-containerd
firecracker-containerd enables containerd to manage containers as Firecracker microVMs
-
InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
If you are willing to leave AWS in order to save a lot of money, you have an option in https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
My team is working on multi-cloud AWS Bottlerocket remix (Azure, GCP) with opt-in support for [firecracker-containerd](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-containerd) for our in-house CNCF distro, investigating microkernels applicability (tldr; they are not production-ready). We test kubernetes compat and migration plans for over 40+ cherry-picked solutions, and facing numerous compat issues for every k8s update. We do have support for Container Managed Control Planes described above, as well.
Talos Linux is indeed fantastic for standing up self-managed Kubernetes clusters.