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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…

comment by nextaccountic · 2026-05-03 · in K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

Absolutely not. We use it extensively. https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s

comment by dansult · 2024-06-24 · in Ask HN: Those running K8s in house, can you please explain your architecture?

…Setup. k3s is probably most well known as it ships with bunch of preinstall software: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s so you can just start throwing yaml files at cluster and handling workloads. It's what I use for my homelab. Paid things…

comment by stackskipton · 2024-05-02 · in Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

…distribution you’re using. We have work in-progress for k3s to natively support nix-snapshotter: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/pull/9319 For other distributions, nix-snapshotter works with official containerd releases so it’s just a matter…

comment by hinshun · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder

…closed without any real resolution. I moved on but I'm curious if anyone else has measured this? https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/294

comment by Difwif · 2023-10-11 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

K3s' go.mod[0] is insane. [0] https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/blob/master/go.mod

comment by onionisafruit · 2023-10-11 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

…about what it is, what the components are, as well as links to more information about testing: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/ Kubernetes is a large and complex system, but doing end to end tests aims to ensure that various implementations…

comment by KronisLV · 2023-08-08 · in Kubernetes Exposed: One YAML Away from Disaster

And those daemons use constantly 25-30% CPU. https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/294

comment by kakoni · 2023-02-06 · in How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

…0.5 to 0.75 of a single core on an embedded system like a Raspberry Pi just as a baseline. [1] [1] https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/2278

comment by kakoni · 2021-10-15 · in Nomad vs. Kubernetes

…be "lightweight". Lightweight compared to what? For k3s, they explain what they do in their README: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s#how-is-this-lightweight-or-sma...

comment by catdog · 2021-08-11 · in State of netbooting Raspberry Pi in 2021

…this space: - https://docs.k0sproject.io ( https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s ) - https://k3s.io ( https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/ ) k0s is my personal favorite and what I run, the decisions they have made align very well with how I want to…

comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-07-22 · in MicroK8s – Low-ops, minimal Kubernetes, for cloud, clusters, Edge and IoT

…board at this very moment, and I already spend 3 days on K3s and have to give up due to a problem ( https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/2509#issuecomment-78657... ). I must say, this is way way harder than Docker Swarm. Just want to know,…

comment by nirui · 2021-02-26 · in Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex

…default. This will reduce overall effort of maintainability of two entirely different datastores." https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s/issues/845

comment by tyingq · 2021-01-22 · in Rqlite: The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite

…K3s comes with batteries included (build in Traefik reverse proxy, load balancer and DNS). [0] https://github.com/rancher/k3s#what-is-this [1] https://github.com/rancher/k3os

comment by aequitas · 2020-07-25 · in Ansible-Defined Homelab

…combined, have become somewhat ubiquitous: From "Formally add support for SELinux" (k3s #1372) https://github.com/rancher/k3s/issues/1372#issuecomment-5817... : > https://blog.openshift.com/securing-kubernetes/* >> The main thing to…

comment by westurner · 2020-06-05 · in Containers from first principles

…a Envoy be the ingress replacing nginx or traefik ? this is being debated in the k3s distribution - https://github.com/rancher/k3s/issues/817 will something like https://www.getambassador.io/reference/core/ingress-controll... , support all…

comment by sandGorgon · 2020-03-05 · in AWS’s Elastic Load Balancer is a Strangler

…from systemd is not bad, but maybe then instead of that using k3s is a better middle ground: https://github.com/rancher/k3s

comment by pas · 2020-01-13 · in Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)

…How do you change the kubelet's cgroup-driver? This looks to be hard-coded into the k3s binaries. https://github.com/rancher/k3s/blob/c79743d4c3d9f2d21b352ed7...

comment by moondev · 2019-11-28 · in Everything I know about Kubernetes I learned from a cluster of Raspberry Pis

…There are some options discussed in a GitHub issue that was opened to ask about this. [1] [1]: https://github.com/rancher/k3s/issues/55

comment by wtmt · 2019-06-01 · in Stripped-down Kubernetes on the Raspberry Pi

For the curious: https://github.com/rancher/k3s > k3s - 5 less than k8s > Lightweight Kubernetes. Easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary less than 40mb.

comment by tedmiston · 2019-03-10 · in Goodbye Docker and Thanks for all the Fish

https://github.com/rancher/k3s#flannel

comment by granra · 2019-02-27 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

…needs a proper evaluation - ingress plugins: good question. it should work with traefik [2] [0] https://github.com/rancher/k3s/blob/master/README.md#what-is... [1] https://github.com/rancher/k3s/blob/master/README.md#server-... [2]…

comment by pas · 2019-02-27 · in K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes

https://github.com/rancher/k3s

comment by proppy · 2019-02-25 · in A Lightweight Kubernetes Distro Built for the Edge

…And there's this simplified fork of K8S that replaces etcd with sqlite: https://github.com/ibuildthecloud/k3s/blob/master/README.md

comment by tyingq · 2018-12-25 · in SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)

…of k8s for ARM. One is RKE which is our CNCF certified k8s distribution. The other will be based off k3s (github.com/ibuildthecloud/k3s) which is an optimized k8s distribution for small clusters (smaller memory, easier setup, etc). I…

comment by darren0 · 2018-12-24 · in Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster