16 engineers on Hacker News describe using K3s first-hand: 8 endorse it, 0 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“I've been using k3s in prod for over 3 years now. Both single-node (yeah, sue me) and multi-node have been working great”
endorse · production · 3 yr · shakiXBT · 2024-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use k3s to run everything locally and it works great.”
endorse · production · physicles · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use k3s for local and testing environments, where it shines. I wouldn't want to use it to run stuff in prod”
mixed · production · physicles · 2023-03-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Ansible to bootstrap k3s. It works, but we have to build a lot more stuff related to monitoring, alerting, routing, etc.”
mixed · production · ericxtang · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I rarely upgrade k3s because I have to do it manually.”
mixed · personal · jpgvm · 2021-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“k3s is brilliant. we run production clusters on it. ... while I love k3s to bits....I feel that k0s ... is far more pragmatic”
mixed · production · sandGorgon · 2021-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“K3s is a pretty good option for when you want to use Kubernetes, but have pretty limited hardware resources”
endorse · personal · KronisLV · 2021-03-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“k3s is actually pretty simple to use now.”
endorse · production · 0.2 yr · sandGorgon · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run k3s in production. With spot instances and all that jazz. I like the fact that I can run the same stack on my laptop and the cloud”
endorse · production · sandGorgon · 2020-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run k3s in production. its a much much nicer experience than even EKS.”
endorse · production · sandGorgon · 2020-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My employer has over 2000 clusters running k3s (I'm on the team that manages them), it's been...okay.”
mixed · production · dhagz · 2020-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm running k3s in production. K3s has hooks to setup Prometheus, autoscaling (for spot instances), etc.”
endorse · production · sandGorgon · 2020-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“find k3s much faster to bootstrap and lighter-weight too”
endorse · personal · alexellisuk · 2020-03-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The second tier is a proper sandbox setup in a k3s namespace created just for the agent on the fly.”
neutral · personal · Roark66 · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we self-host K3s on their nodes”
neutral · production · reissbaker · 2026-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a k3s user (for local dev & my very small personal prod envs)”
neutral · personal · rektide · 2020-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?