k3s-io/k3s
Lightweight Kubernetes
About the project
Lightweight Kubernetes distribution packaged as a single binary under 100 MB with lower memory usage, suited for edge, IoT, CI and ARM devices.
Useful for
- Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on an edge device or Raspberry Pi
- Spin up a local k8s cluster for CI or development
- Embed Kubernetes into a custom product or application
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 3 stars so far today, about 8 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.7× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +9 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 34,088
- Today
- 3 · ≈ 8 by evening
- Forks
- 2,745
- Issues and pull requests
- 13,438
- Watchers
- 292
- Language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v1.34.12+k3s1 · September 30, 2026
- Created
- May 31, 2018
- Last push
- September 30, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- October 1, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #14, +9 stars
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