Rancher Labs announced general availability of K3s, its lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution purpose built for small footprint workloads, along with the beta release of Rio, their new application deployment engine for Kubernetes that delivers a fully integrated deployment experience from operations to pipeline.
Although many enterprises now include Kubernetes in their strategic edge initiatives, Kubernetes in its upstream form is too heavy and operationally challenging for edge use-cases. Rancher Labs originally created K3s as a lightweight Kubernetes distribution designed for use in edge production environments and has been working with Arm to optimize for these workloads.
Rio is targeted squarely at addressing the inherent complexity of building, deploying, and managing containerized applications. Designed for use by developers and DevOps teams, Rio makes it fast and easy to build, test, deploy, scale, and version stateless apps in any Kubernetes cluster.
Capabilities of Rio include lightweight, cloud-native platform that delivers a fully integrated deployment experience from operations to pipeline without taking over the cluster; and easily installed using Rancher’s App Catalog and also runs on any Kubernetes cluster anywhere, even on a laptop, handling all wiring for common services like Istio, Knative, and Prometheus.
It also comes with Rancher’s built-in security capabilities around cluster performance, multitenancy and encryption allow applications to launch with the most secure network configuration possible.
Because of its lightweight design and simple operation, K3s is also being adopted for use cases beyond the edge.
“Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard for container orchestration,” stated Sheng Liang, co-founder and CEO, of Rancher Labs. With our investments in K3s and Rio, and our recently announced Rancher v2.3, we are completing our Kubernetes-as-a-service solution stack for ITOps and DevOps teams.”
Civo, a cloud solutions provider, who has created the initial K3s-powered, managed Kubernetes service.
“Our #KUBE100 K3s platform is a learning playground where those new to containers can test the water, risk and cost-free,” said Andy Jeffries, CTO at Civo. “K3s is so lightweight we can install it in under two minutes - a fraction of the time it takes to launch a regular Kubernetes cluster. With K3s, developers can spin up new clusters, deploy apps and test easily - at speed.”
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