Lightweight Kubernetes
 Running Kubernetes on Workstations, Edge and IoT Devices @LeanderReimer @qaware #CloudNativeNerd

Do you have a PhD in K8s clusterology?

• CentOS 7.7 with Containerd • Kubernetes 1.16 with K8s Dashboard • Calico, External-DNS • MetalLB + NGINX-Ingress • Rook CephFS • Cert-Manager, Sealed Secrets • Elastic-Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fluentd) • Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Loki • Istio, Knative, Jaeger • Clair, Vault, Keycloak

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What now?

https://k3s.io https://microk8s.io

MicroK8s - Zero-ops Kubernetes • Certified Kubernetes distribution. Backed by Canonical. • A single package of K8s for 42 flavours of Linux. • Uses multipass to run a local Ubuntu VM under Windows and Mac. • Made for developers, and great for edge, IoT and appliances. • Dozens of add-ons: DNS, dashboard, storage, RBAC, ingress, MetalLB, registry, GPU, Istio, Linkerd, Knative, fluentd, Prometheus, Jaeger • Clustering add-on currently in Beta.

MicroK8s Demo

k3s - 5 less than k8s • Certified Kubernetes distribution. Backed by Rancher. • Easy to install, run and auto-update. Single < 40MB binary. • Suitable for Edge, IoT, ARM64, ARMv7, CI, Workstations and the Cloud • Legacy, alpha, non-default features are removed • Sqlite3 as the default storage mechanism, but etcd3 is still available • LoadBalancer support with Traefik based Ingress • k3sup: from Zero to KUBECONFIG in < 1 min https://k3sup.dev/

K3s Demo