[bloppe]

What does k3k stand for? Can we just put whatever number we want between 2 letters now?

[olblak]

Disclosure as I am working for SUSE on Rancher.

It's Kubernetes in Kubernetes and a reference in k3s which is also a project we are heavily contributing to, at SUSE.

[nextaccountic]

https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s#whats-with-the-name

> What's with the name?

> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10 letter word stylized as k8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5 letter word stylized as K3s. A '3' is also an '8' cut in half vertically. There is neither a long-form of K3s nor official pronunciation.

k3k is a play on k3s

but k3s is itself a play on words (k3s is supposed to be half the size of k8s, which stands for kubernetes)

[wlonkly]

I've always liked to think that "k3s" is the numeric-abbreviation of "kates".[1]

[1] https://xcancel.com/PHP_CEO/status/823620960960053248

[BurpyDave]

I suspect it’s ‘kubernetes in kubernetes’

[wlonkly]

that's k2k!

[stingraycharles]

I suspect it's a play on another kubernetes variant, `k3s` ?

[pcald]

k in k