How to Choose a Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution: k0s vs k3s vs MicroK8s

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Whether you’re spinning up local test clusters or orchestrating workloads at the edge, you need a way to run Kubernetes quickly and easily without overburdening your hardware. The answer? Lightweight Kubernetes distributions designed to leverage the power of K8s without all the overhead.
k0s, k3s, and MicroK8s are all popular open source Kubernetes distributions with small footprints - but which is right for your use case? In this webinar, Kevin Ng will guide you through the capabilities of each option so you can choose the tool that’s right for you. He will also dive deep into k0s from Mirantis including a quick look under-the-hood as well as Mirantis' all new control plane and multi-cluster management tool: k0smotron.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - What Kevin will cover in this Webinar
1:54 - Some background on K8s Overhead
4:32 - Lightweight K8s vs "Plain" K8s
10:52 - Deep Dive: k0s by Mirantis
14:53 - Deep Dive: k3s by Rancher/SUSE
17:03 - Deep Dive: MicroK8s by Canonical
19:14 - Comparing k0s, k3s & MicroK8s
28:14 - Making the best choice: k0s, k3s or MicroK8s?
30:19 - Complete k0s solution overview
32:52 - Enter k0smotron: multi-cluster management by Mirantis
34:10 - How k0smotron standardizes multi-cloud & reduces cost
35:33 - Quick recap of Kevin's presentation
35:58 - Resources: k0s & k0smotron
36:52 - Outro

[@Exius-Zero]

Great video and well explained.
Always nice to see a fair comparison of products in the space from an unbiased perspective.

[@aproperhooligan5950]

Good information, Kevin. I'll give a look at K0s. Thank you!

[@MirantisUS]

Thank you for your comment! Best place to get started is k0sproject.io/

[@ayex86]

! The tests in this video are 1.5 years old, new performance tests need to be done!
K0s might need to have a few "add-ons". Generally harder to configure. The documentation needs improvement.

[@user-rd2fs5lu9g]

k3s and Microk8s the best