Day 8: K3d and Lightweight Kubernetes — Running Multi-Node Clusters on 16 GB of RAM
Week 2 moves the stack onto Kubernetes. The first obstacle is the cluster itself. Standard distributions such as kubeadm or OpenShift can take 4 to 8 GB of RAM for the control plane before a single workload runs, which is most of a 16 GB laptop. K3s and k3d K3s is a CNCF-certified lightweight Kuber…
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Day 8: K3d and Lightweight Kubernetes — Running Multi-Node Clusters on 16 GB of RAM