K3s Alternatives

k3s reviews and mentions

• Turing Pi 2 Home cluster
  13 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2024

  Jeff led me to K3s using Ansible, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is perfect for my home cluster and a pre-defined way of installing it because I don't have pre-requirements nor the idea on how to set it up otherwise.

• I Solve Problems (talk at EuroBSDCon 2024)
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2024

  Still requires SRE but alot easier than it used to be: https://www.talos.dev/v1.8/

  Also, k3s. https://k3s.io/

• Docker Desktop Alternative
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2024

  I'm torn between https://k0sproject.io and https://k3s.io to use in CI and production.

  Any suggestions or personal experience?

• Does Your Startup Need Complex Cloud Infrastructure?
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2024

  What you also can do is starting with just a single node, incredibly easy to install with e.g. https://k3s.io/. You still have to invest the upfront effort to understand how it works but you can already reap a lot of benefits with a lot less complexity.

  Kubernetes does not force you into the distributed systems hell, you can go that route later, or never.

• Reclaim the Stack
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2024

  > Gosh, I'm so happy I was able to jump of the k8s hype train. This is not something SMBs should be using. Now I happily manage my fleet of services without large infra overhead via my own paas over Docker Swarm. :)

  I mean, I also use Docker Swarm and it's pretty good, especially with Portainer.

  To me, the logical order of tools goes with scale a bit like this: Docker Compose --> Docker Swarm --> Hashicorp Nomad / Kubernetes

  (with maybe Podman variety of tools where needed)

  I've yet to see a company that really needs the latter group of options, but maybe that's because I work in a country that's on the smaller side of things.

  All that being said, however, both Nomad and some K8s distributions like K3s https://k3s.io/ can be a fairly okay experience nowadays. It's just that it's also easy to end up with more complexity than you need. I wonder if it's going to be the meme about going full circle and me eventually just using shared hosting with PHP or something again, though so far containers feel like the "right" choice for shipping things reasonably quickly, while being in control of how resources are distributed.

• How I learned to stop worrying and love userspace networking
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2024

  The author is using https://k3s.io/ not the full k8s, so it doesn't have to be extremely expensive.

• Let's Make a k3s Cluster with Raspberry Pi and Cloudflare Tunnel
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2024

  For those who don't know k3s, it's a light weight version of Kubernetes suitable for IoT & Edge devices. One of the advantages of k3s is it's easier to install and make it up and running.

• Setup a k3s Cluster at home quickly
  1 project | dev.to | 14 Jul 2024

  $ systemctl status k3s ● k3s.service - Lightweight Kubernetes      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/k3s.service; enabled; preset: disabled)     Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d              └─10-timeout-abort.conf      Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-07-14 18:47:30 IST; 21min ago        Docs: https://k3s.io

• Ask HN: Those running K8s in house, can you please explain your architecture?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jun 2024

  Absolutely not. We use it extensively.

  https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s

• 26 Top Kubernetes Tools
  18 projects | dev.to | 12 Jun 2024

  K3s is another compact Kubernetes distribution. Developed by SUSE, it's packaged as a single binary that comes in at less than 70MB. Despite this tiny footprint, K3s is certified as compatible with upstream Kubernetes, is ready for production use, and supports high availability.

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