Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Tue Sep 12 - PLUG North - "k8s/2 = k3s" by Rich Freeman and Will Christensen (7pm at CoreDial)

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:51:37AM -0400, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 9:39 PM Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via
> plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > This month, PLUG welcomes back Rich Freeman and Will Christensen, who
> > will be giving a talk on Kubernetes and k3s, which they've entitled
> > "k8s/2 = k3s".
> >
> 
> A little more detail for those on the fence (apologies to Walt as I
> should have gotten this to him last week)...
> 
> I'm relatively new to k8s and wanted to give an overview of k8s from a
> new-ish perspective.  There are a bunch of k8s-related topics I'd be
> interested in presenting on, but I realized we've never had a general
> intro to k8s at PLUG (at least not a formally scheduled one).  The
> first half of this presentation is intended to be the talk that I
> would have wanted before I took the plunge last year.  It will assume
> you have some general idea of what containers are, but that's about
> it.  By the end you should have a sense of whether it is for you, but
> we won't do any deep dives on actually using it.
> 
> I'll let Will speak for himself, but k3s is an implementation of k8s
> designed for small systems (Pis and such), though it is certainly not
> limited to those.

As for why it's called k3s, here's what https://docs.k3s.io has to say:

> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in
> terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10-letter word stylized as
> K8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5-letter word
> stylized as K3s. There is no long form of K3s and no official
> pronunciation.

Personally I always thought that a smaller version of kubernetes
should be named "kayaks" and abbreviated "k4s", but that's just me...

Walt
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