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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by atombender on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:43PM (#22489398)
Kubernetes consumes a lot of CPU even when idle, due to the polling design, which makes Minikube is a really poor fit for developer machines. It's well known [1] to sit there eating 20-30% CPU, draining your battery and frustrating your life while doing absolutely nothing. This applies to all the Kubernetes distributions, including Kind and Docker Desktop. Not sure if the same applies to K3s, though.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/3207, https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3065, https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3539, etc; there must be dozens and dozens of these

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Re:Google Kubernetes Engine is introducing a cluster managem... by rcarmo on Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:22PM (#22495682)
It does. My k3s setups (like https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-k3s-cluster) take up nearly 100% of the puny master node I allocate to them, and kill my Raspberry Pi SD cards as well.

Swarm, in comparison, is much friendlier (and you can use it for dev/test across multiple machines just fine)

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