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Fortunately Darren Shepherd came up with a novel idea of taking way the things he didn't want in Kubernetes and created a "distro" called K3s (3 is less than 8)

It's not that it is less, "3" is what you get if you take the character "8" and cut it in half vertically.




From the k3s readme, it states kubernetes is 10 letters stylized as k8s. Half of 10 is 5, and then the project "stylized" it as k3s.


Indeed, you are right!

The explanation above was given by one of the Rancher staff members in one tech conference. It may be an alternative explanation that popped up with time.

In both the point is that k3s is "half of" k8s.




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