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K3s only runs on Linux. So... it needs to run in a VM or Linux container. It can't run natively on OS X.

ohh ok.. So in-fact K3d provides that Linux Container to host K3S ?..is that what K3d helps (Obviously with many other things that K3d has ) Again as just trying tread through so asking very basic questions .

K3s runs on Linux. Docker Desktop provides a Linux VM. k3d runs K3s containers in Docker Desktop, thus giving you the ability to run k3s clusters (multi node even) on any system where Docker runs - for dev and testing, etc. not really for production.

Thanks you thats a lot of good thin i learnt . J

For that you'd want Rancher Desktop

Thanks . That was helpful