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Companies looking for a container management solution
About K3s
K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. Both ARM64 and ARMv7 are supported with binaries and multiarch images available for both. K3s works great from something as small as a Raspberry Pi to an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server. Lightweight storage backend based on sqlite3 as the default storage mechanism. etcd3, MySQL, Postgres also still available. Secure by default with reasonable defaults for lightweight environments. Simple but powerful “batteries-included” features have been added, such as: a local storage provider, a service load balancer, a Helm controller, and the Traefik ingress controller. Operation of all Kubernetes control plane components is encapsulated in a single binary and process. This allows K3s to automate and manage complex cluster operations like distributing certificates.
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K3s Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does K3s work with?
K3s works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does K3s support in their product?
K3s supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does K3s offer?
K3s offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does K3s integrate with?
K3s integrates with: AtomicJar, Devtron, harpoon, Kubernetes, NeuVector, Rancher, SafeKit, and Traefik Mesh.
Q: What type of training does K3s provide?
K3s provides training in the form of documentation.
