Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them) [LWN.net]

Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them)

Posted Feb 17, 2026 6:42 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)
In reply to: Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them) by Cyberax
Parent article: FOSS in times of war, scarcity, and AI

etcd is not mandatory. On my home cluster I'm using k3s, with single PostgreSQL as a data store. Works perfectly on trash old laptops I've used as nodes.

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Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them)

Posted Feb 17, 2026 18:55 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, but K3s is not K8s. And the design of K8s is severely affected by etcd limitations, even though all the large players have versions of K8s that use different storage backends.

Europe needs hyperscalers (lots of them)

Posted Feb 17, 2026 20:19 UTC (Tue) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

K3s _is_ k8s – it passes conformance test suite and has CNCF's certificate. But I recognize this is a nitpicking not contributing to the discussion, so I'll yield here.