Walt Mankowski via plug on 11 Sep 2023 11:47:35 -0700 |
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Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Tue Sep 12 - PLUG North - "k8s/2 = k3s" by Rich Freeman and Will Christensen (7pm at CoreDial) |
kayaks 1234 On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 02:45:35PM -0400, Will via plug wrote: > But it only had 3 letters, where's the 4th? > > -Will C > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:59 AM Walt Mankowski via plug < > plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > > http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements - > > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion -- > > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug