Intro

For each K8s distro below, in addition to being a supported install path with smol-k8s-lab, you can also check out a full tutorial to get started from scratch, or use a preconfigured BASH script we've created. We always install the latest version of Kubernetes that is available from the distro's startup script.

Distro	Description
k3s	The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing
KinD	kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

We tend to test on k3s first, then kind.