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K3s Lightweight Kubernetes vs. SAP IoT Application Enablement

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    K3s Lightweight Kubernetes

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AK3s 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

    SAP IoT Application Enablement

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASAP IoT Application Enablement supports the development of Internet of things applications basically by linking UI elements to IoT data to create a digital representation, and provides extensibility to the SAP Cloud Platform.N/A
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    K3s Lightweight KubernetesSAP IoT Application Enablement
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    K3s Lightweight KubernetesSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    K3s Lightweight KubernetesSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of K3s Lightweight Kubernetes and SAP IoT Application Enablement
    Feature
    K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    SAP IoT Application Enablement
    7.6
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    IoT Device Management8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Device Security8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IoT Data Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IoT Analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IoT Integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    K3s Lightweight KubernetesSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Small Businesses
    AWS IoT Core
    Score9.9 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Enterprises
    AWS IoT Core
    Score9.9 out of 10
    AWS IoT Core
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    K3s Lightweight KubernetesSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    K3s Lightweight KubernetesSAP IoT Application Enablement
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SUSE
    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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    SAP
    IoT Application Enablement is particularly useful when developing SAP UI5 applications that consume and use IoT data. There are many such examples in a number of business areas such as logistics, inventory management, process management, asset management, and others. IoT data is a key source of fuel for the intelligent enterprise.
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    Pros
    SUSE
    • Virtual clusters
    • IoT devices
    • Local development
    • Raspberry Pi
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    SAP
    • Thing modeling is a particularly useful aspect of IoT Application Enablement.
    • IoT Application Enablement supports a large number of IoT communication standards and protocols.
    • It is quite easy to expose the Thing and IoT data as OData or other RESTful services
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    Cons
    SUSE
    • Option to deploy a self managed k3s in the cloud
    • Support to deploy it with kubeadm
    • Integration with prometheus & grafana
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    SAP
    • I believe SAP is currently combining IoT Application Enablement into SAP Leonardo IoT. It will be worth seeing what extra features are available then.
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    Support Rating
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    While it is a good product, I feel like with SAP Leonardo IoT there will be a lack of support for this specific product. If it becomes part of the whole then this will be a much higher rating as their support is excellent. I'm just cautious while they combine several products into one. I have not used SAP Leonardo IoT yet.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SUSE
    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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    SAP
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    Return on Investment
    SUSE
    • 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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    SAP
    • Being able to incorporate IoT data directly into web applications is quite valuable, both to our customers and to our business as well.
    • IoT data has helped us take advantage of other intelligent technologies such as machine learning.
    • Many of our clients are looking to integrate their devices into their workflows, and this technology is part of that solution.
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