Alternatives to K3s

Ordered by how much they overlap with K3s, then by score.

Alternatives, ranked

  1. Kubernetes

    Container orchestration system for deploying, scaling and managing containerized workloads.

    • Higher score
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 24 days ago
    10 92.5 = Compare
  2. Moby

    Open framework and container engine that forms the upstream of Docker Engine.

    • Higher score
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 4 days ago
    27 90.5 = Compare
  3. Podman

    Daemonless tool for managing OCI containers and pods, including rootless operation.

    • Released more recently
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 3 days ago
    76 87.7 = Compare
  4. Helm

    Package manager for Kubernetes that installs and upgrades applications from versioned charts.

    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 9 days ago
    81 87.3 = Compare
  5. containerd

    Container runtime that manages image transfer, storage and container execution on a host.

    • Released more recently
    • Runs on more platforms
    • No shared features
    Updated 3 days ago
    98 86.0 = Compare