[jturpin]

I use MicroK8S for local testing of Kubernetes clusters on my laptop and it works pretty well. I like that I can just run microk8s reset to clear out the state so I can redeploy everything without fear of some lingering configuration laying behind. I have yet to deploy it to an actual server though, though I would definitely be interested if it could do what EKS can do to some capacity (mainly creating EBS volumes and load balancers).

[mkesper]

Are you serious? Microk8s reset takes ages. It's faster to uninstall the whole thing. You also can just delete whole workspaces, that should normally be enough.

[jturpin]

Yeah man, I'm serious. It took 5 minutes 30 seconds on my machine to run microk8s reset. This is well within the tolerance window for something I choose to run every 2 to 6 weeks. This is not part of my normal development strategy. Deleting whole namespaces is not a good idea for things like kube-system, ingress, etc. for obvious reasons.

[achalkias]

Indeed, sometimes it can be faster to nuke the cluster but this is also unsafe. microk8s reset asks Kubernetes to delete the resources created, and that can take time.