Start of the Showcase serie by Pascal van Dam.
There are many ways to install a Kubernetes cluster. Most of us are familiar with kubeadm as the defacto standard to get a Kubernetes cluster up-and-running. However there are more. In this series we will cover a set of these. In this episode we will take a look at K3S. This Kubernetes distro is targeting ‘the Edge’ use cases and weighs in at only 100MiB. This places it in the same league as MicroK8S which we will cover later.
K3S originates from the famous Rancher Labs. Why it’s called K3S? Well, it’s ligher than K8S and if you half an 8 character, you get something that resembles a 3 (a little bit). But what do these 3 omitted letters between K and S then mean like the 8 in K8S? Well, can´t share that with you in this episode as it’s ‘undefined’ but what we will cover is:
– What is K3S
– Place of K3S in the K8S eco-system
– Use cases
– How to setup K8S using K3S
– Using a K3S setup cluster
– Integration in Rancher
– Running on ARM64 (Raspberry PIs)
– Review Pro-s/Con-s
– Tips and Tricks
– Questions & Answers
The episode following this one will be on K3S near relative, K3D which contents in the realm where also KIND is succesful.
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