How would this compare to minikube for local dev? Looking for something that doesn't destroy my laptop's battery

The Rancher folks showed it running on a raspberry Pi and it was only using 30% of one of 4 cores or similar. I don't think it would let your laptop go fully asleep, but shouldn't consume too much power if it's awake.

If you are on linux, I've found microk8s to be much more performant. It still slows my system down (Macbook Air with just 4GB RAM) but it is noticeably better than minikube.

Too bad it is dependent on Snap.

Well, maybe this will actually work. At least on windows 10 I could not get minikube to start (tried a few machines)

I sat in on the webinar and was impressed. I've been looking for something easy/simple that would handle 2 to 8 nodes with bare metal. Including CoreDNS, Flannel, automatic certs, and is easy to install.

I'm open to other options though if anyone has a favorite.

Previous discussion on k3s from when it was just a personal project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18080390

So what does k3s stand for? k8s is obviously short for "Kubernetes" since there's a k 8 letters and an s. Just as l10n and i18n.

So what's the 3 letters between k and s in this case?

I believe it goes:

Kubernetes -> K8s -> "kates" -> k3s