> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10 letter word stylized as k8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5 letter word stylized as K3s. A '3' is also an '8' cut in half vertically. There is neither a long-form of K3s nor official pronunciation.
k3k is a play on k3s
but k3s is itself a play on words (k3s is supposed to be half the size of k8s, which stands for kubernetes)
https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s#whats-with-the-name
> What's with the name?
> We wanted an installation of Kubernetes that was half the size in terms of memory footprint. Kubernetes is a 10 letter word stylized as k8s. So something half as big as Kubernetes would be a 5 letter word stylized as K3s. A '3' is also an '8' cut in half vertically. There is neither a long-form of K3s nor official pronunciation.
k3k is a play on k3s
but k3s is itself a play on words (k3s is supposed to be half the size of k8s, which stands for kubernetes)
I've always liked to think that "k3s" is the numeric-abbreviation of "kates".[1]
[1] https://xcancel.com/PHP_CEO/status/823620960960053248
Disclosure as I am working for SUSE on Rancher.
It's Kubernetes in Kubernetes and a reference in k3s which is also a project we are heavily contributing to, at SUSE.
I suspect it’s ‘kubernetes in kubernetes’
that's k2k!
I suspect it's a play on another kubernetes variant, `k3s` ?
k in k