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Also worth noting that it's a lot less resource hungry than the official Kubernetes distro. Kubernetes documentation recommends 2 CPUs and 2GB of RAM per node just to have enough left over to actually run any workloads.

k3s is specifically designed for resource constrained environments (e.g. Edge, IoT, CI/CD) and can get away with as little as 0.05 CPU and 256M RAM (on worker nodes).

I don't recommend this as a way to save money on infrastructure but it does open the door to further use cases.