Kubernetes for IoT — The magic behind K3S

Aymen Abdelwahed
uleap
Published in
5 min readMar 29, 2021

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Lightweight —Simple —Easy Secure — Production-Ready

Everything started with a desire to have a lightweight K8s distribution that can run in constrained environments for a whole plethora of use cases.

Rancher took the effort to create an easy to use & reliable solution with a minimum learning curve required; create a Kubernetes cluster that uses half the memory of a Vanilla Kubernetes and uses a single binary of a hundred Megabytes. By removing all superfluous components, the final result was astonishing, a production-grade K8s…

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Aymen Abdelwahed
uleap

Is a Cloud-Native enthusiast with 14 plus years of experience. He’s continuously immersing himself in the latest technology trends & projects.