K3d – A fast kubernetes dev environment
Introducing k3d (k3s in docker), a fast and efficient kubernetes development environment.
K3d – A fast kubernetes dev environment launched on March 25, 2019 with 11 votes, #1,033 of 2,994 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
In plain words
K3d is a development tool that creates lightweight Kubernetes environments for local testing and development. It enables developers to quickly spin up and tear down Kubernetes clusters on their machines without the overhead of full production setups. The tool is designed for software engineers who need to test Kubernetes configurations, applications, and deployments in a realistic but resource-efficient manner. K3d stands out for its speed and simplicity in making Kubernetes accessible for development workflows.
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From the sources
There are a number of kubernetes dev environments that help develop and test applications created for kubernetes, but each one of them suffers from some issue. Let's take a look at what we want from a kubernetes dev environment. Current solutions don't check all of these requirements, we'll see some of them starting with Minikube - the most popular and the officially suggested way of running kubernetes locally. Minikube creates a linux virtual machine which acts as a kubernetes node the client can connect to. Since it relies on a vm it is slow to start and eats up a lot of resources. If you are on a non-linux host and also running Docker (which is a pretty common scenario when working with…from blog.zeerorg.site
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