Microk8s Alternatives

microk8s reviews and mentions

• Edge Computing Middleware: Securing and Scaling Distributed Architectures
  2 projects | dev.to | 5 Aug 2026

  Q2: Can I use standard container orchestration tools like Kubernetes at the edge? A2: Yes, but with caveats. Full Kubernetes might be too resource-intensive for many edge nodes. Lighter-weight distributions like K3s or MicroK8s are designed for edge and IoT environments. Additionally, specialized edge orchestration platforms (often part of edge middleware solutions) are emerging that offer more tailored features for device management, offline operations, and resource-constrained deployments, sometimes integrating with or complementing Kubernetes-like tools.

• How to upgrade a MicroK8s cluster
  1 project | dev.to | 20 Jul 2026

  Now that our node is empty, we can proceed with the upgrade. It's recommended to upgrade one minor version at a time. You can review the latest MicroK8s version on GitHub releases .

• Guía Profesional para Instalar y Configurar MicroK8s en Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  2 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2025
• Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2025

  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.

• Linux connection tracking and (Slow) DNS
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2024

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

• Lightweight Kubernetes and Wasm is a Perfect Combo
  2 projects | dev.to | 1 Nov 2024

  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.

• Installing Kubernetes via MicroK8s and configuring the deployment of NestJS and Angular applications
  5 projects | dev.to | 14 Sep 2024

  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.

• Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2024

  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.

• Getting my feet wet with Kubernetes
  6 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2024

  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.

• You get what you Measure: Understanding your applications health with Grafana, Loki and Prometheus
  3 projects | dev.to | 24 Apr 2024

  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.

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