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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes vs. Microsoft Azure IoT Edge

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
Score 9.5 out of 10
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K3s is a lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing, developed by Rancher Labs, which is now supported by SUSE since the 2020 acquisition. K3s is available free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license.N/A
Azure IoT Edge
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub. Users can deploy cloud workloads—artificial intelligence, Azure and third-party services, or business logic—to run on Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices via standard containers. The vendor states that by moving certain workloads to the edge of the network, devices spend less time communicating with the cloud, react more quickly to local changes, and operate reliably even in extended offline periods.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Internet of Things
Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
9.2
Ratings
14% above category average
IoT Device Management8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Device Security8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
IoT Data Management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
IoT Analytics00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
IoT Integration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
K3s Lightweight KubernetesMicrosoft Azure IoT Edge
Small Businesses
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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Enterprises
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
K3s Lightweight KubernetesMicrosoft Azure IoT Edge
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9.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
K3s Lightweight KubernetesMicrosoft Azure IoT Edge
Likelihood to Recommend
K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is well suited for local development. K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not well suited when you need backward support. In the case that you want to test an application that is still using deprecated APIs or CRDs which are supported on popular managed Cloud Kubernetes Distributions, because K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is trying to be a lightweight application and dropping early support for APIs/CRDs marked for deprication K3s Lightweight Kubernetes will not be a good solution. If you are trying to test Kubernetes etc, functionality, K3s Lightweight Kubernetes is not a good case since it's using Dqlite or SQLite.
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It is well suited if you have a production plant and you want to cut down the cost of cloud storage. It is best for medium to large companies if they want to process their machine generated data at their production site and only store the data that is required in cloud storage. It is less appropriate for small companies.
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Pros
  • Virtual clusters
  • IoT devices
  • Local development
  • Raspberry Pi
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  • Innovative virtual learning environments that fasttracked our transition to remote learning at the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020
  • Mission critical business solutions for academic members of staff
  • Video conferencing and IoT devices connections
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Cons
  • Option to deploy a self managed k3s in the cloud
  • Support to deploy it with kubeadm
  • Integration with prometheus & grafana
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  • We had some trouble such as latency issues [and] connectivity while using Azure blob storage as an Edge Module on Azure IoT Edge runtime, so they should look into it.
  • We were stuck while defining the routes for different Edge Modules on Azure IoT Edge, so they should simplify it and improve the related documentation section as well.
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Alternatives Considered
We have mostly used kind, minikube, and Docker Desktop Kubernetes for local development. Only kind has lower resource requirements, but K3s Lightweight Kubernetes seems to be even lighter. It is a big benefit to be able to deploy a K3s Lightweight Kubernetes cluster in seconds locally in our workstation, there is no cost, and it makes it easy to redeploy from scratch no matter how many times we want. The removal of deprecated APIs or CRDs also makes it more secure since it reduces unnecessarily exposed attack vectors.
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In terms of creating a smart digital workplace, in terms of being granular in enterprise security, provides a modernised experience, high quality data analysis at the edge of computing, while providing efficient mobility and workplace services.
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Return on Investment
  • Engineers have been able to run more microservices locally with K3s Lightweight Kubernetes instead of Minikube, which is more resources hungry
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  • Very High ROI as Microsoft Azure IoT Edge completely enables the features of Edge computing.
  • Real-time analytics can be achieved with Microsoft Azure IoT Edge.
  • No Negative impact as such.
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