Lightweight Kubernetes Deployment on AWS with k3s

Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration tool, but running a complete Kubernetes cluster on bare metal can be complex and resource-intensive. k3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution by Rancher Labs, simplifies this process while retaining most of Kubernetes’ powerful features. In this podcast, we’ll walk you through deploying a four-node k3s cluster on AWS EC2 instances, launching a MySQL RDS instance on a private subnet, installing k3s on the cluster nodes, deploying a NodePort service to make the pods accessible, and configuring Nginx to route traffic to the pods.

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