In another “running kuberets” flavoured post I’ll be trying out microk8s

High availability K8s. Low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes, for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT.

In the past I’ve been using k3s for small (mostly single node) “clusters”. The pitch is very similar. The few differences I can point out now are:

• microk8s is a bit heavier - I don’t think it will run on 1G vps, let’s try it out
• microk8s has a better HA story - definately want to try this out
• k3s comes as a single “run everywhere” binary whereas microk8s requires snap

Setting up

I’ll be using Hetzner Cloud to provision a few small VMs for my laboratory. But I’ll start with a single one.