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

2.
Do you have a PhD in
K8s
clusterology?

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• 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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M V G

5.
What now?

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

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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.

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MicroK8s Demo

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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/

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K3s Demo