K3s Edge Computing in Practice: Lightweight Kubernetes Deployment and Operations for Resource-Constrained Environments
Overview You’re an ops engineer at a smart manufacturing company. The factory floor has 200 edge gateways, each running data collection and real-time quality inspection services. Previously deployed with bare Docker, every update meant writing scripts to SSH into each machine, pull images, and restart containers. Running through 200 machines took half an hour, with a few always failing due to network jitter. You think: isn’t this exactly what Kubernetes solves?...