Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

Authors: Jeff Spahr

2021-10-15

K3s is a lightweight single binary Kubernetes distribution that is simple to install, and it's a perfect match for the latest Raspberry Pi 4. Join the speaker as he walks through the design, implementation, and trade offs you'll have to consider for this edge architecture. In this talk I'll cover the following:The why and how of deploying a production grade highly available 3 node K3s cluster.How to capture all the configuration as code and drive changes through GitOps.How to manage automatic updates for the cluster and operating system through the Kubernetes API.The speaker will be building on https://github.com/jeffspahr/k3s-on-pi for this presentation.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

Authors: Alex Jones, Anais Urlichs

2021-10-14

Civo built a cloud computing company around K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, and shares their learnings of growing up fast in collaboration with the open-source community. They were able to iterate on K3s quickly and scale it up without traditional Kubernetes challenges, resulting in sub-90 second launch times.

• Civo is a managed Kubernetes provider based on K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution
• K3s reduces installation complexity and comes packed as a single binary
• Civo is highly community-focused and community-driven
• Civo's platform provides several different options to allow for community feedback and community-created resources
• Civo was able to iterate on K3s quickly and scale it up without traditional Kubernetes challenges
• Civo promises sub-90 second launch times with sub-60 seconds becoming tantalizingly close