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Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
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Gitea
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
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Nomad
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
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k3s discussion
k3s reviews and mentions
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Kubernetes testing w/ Dagger.io
What we need is a way to bootstrap a Kubernetes Cluster itself. Being in a docker-like environment the best option is a Kubernetes in Docker solution, such as KinD or K3s. Both are available in Daggerverse and can be installed as external module to be reused.
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K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes
https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s#whats-with-the-name
> What's with the name?
> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10 letter word stylized as k8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5 letter word stylized as K3s. A '3' is also an '8' cut in half vertically. There is neither a long-form of K3s nor official pronunciation.
k3k is a play on k3s
but k3s is itself a play on words (k3s is supposed to be half the size of k8s, which stands for kubernetes)
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EKS vs k3s on AWS for startups: cost, complexity, and when to choose each
k3s
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How I Cut Our GitHub Actions Pipeline Time by More Than 50%
Before landing on the base image approach, my first assumption was that the Kubernetes cluster setup was the bottleneck - we use kind to run dependencies like PostgreSQL and NATS. I replaced kind with k3s. It saved 1β2 minutes, but nothing significant on its own.
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Docker Compose vs Kubernetes: Secure Homelab Choices
I use K3s specifically because full Kubernetes is absurd for a homelab. K3s strips out the cloud-provider bloat and runs the control plane in a single binary. My cluster runs on a box with 32GB RAM β plenty for ~40 pods.
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Stop babysitting your AI agent!
NVIDIA seems to agree. Their OpenShell project takes the same approach: sandboxed execution environments with declarative YAML policies governing egress, filesystem access, and credentials. It uses containers (K3s under the hood) as the isolation boundary.
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Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026
https://k3s.io/ is my new goto for this
Docker Swarm doesn't have the mindshare for effective hiring
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My 2025 review
Start with small-scale experiments using k3s/k3d
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Reinventing Kubernetes in 2025: a post-mortem of my βsimpleβ stack
K3s lightweight Kubernetes for sane people.
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Deploying a Simple App on K3S in AWS EC2 with GitHub Actions & ECR
K3s
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 10 Jun 2026
Stats
k3s-io/k3s is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of k3s is Go.
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