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Creating Kubernetes Cluster with k3s

K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that Rancher Labs, which is a fully certified Kubernetes offering by CNCF. In K3s, we see that the memory footprint or binary which contains the components to run a cluster is small. It means that K3s are small in size.

Setup

curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -

export KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml
sudo chmod 644 $KUBECONFIG