K3S use cases

fumantsu · Apr 15th 2025

Hi to all,

This could be look either strange or provocateur or either stupid question but I want to ask what can be the use case of K3S for a home use. I know that it is an advanced feature.

I believe that most of us (advanced users or not) we have some containers like pi-hole, plex, sonarr or radarr maybe some mariadb. What can be the benefit/value (other that playing and learning kubernetes) to have such kind of containers in k3s?

votdev · Apr 15th 2025

K3s is simply another lightweight container runtime beside Docker. The k8s plugin does not want to make use of extra features that are available in k8s; this does not make sense on a one node cluster.

But nevertheless you have nice features.

fumantsu · Apr 16th 2025

I see. I'm just try to see (again for the average home user containers) where (and maybe which of) the extra features can used. Also I see that there is a bit more complexity comparing docker/podman which I can't see if worth.

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