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jolly-army-27033

03/09/2023, 12:55 PM
Hi all, I am new to K3S, and trying to get some answers here. Does running K3s-Agent alone (without k3s-Server), can I achieve Container Orchestration Service in an Edge device?
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hundreds-evening-84071

03/09/2023, 2:25 PM
Scheduler and API Server are part of "Server". See the architecture here: https://docs.k3s.io/architecture And to deploy an agent node (worker) a token is needed which is generated by server
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jolly-army-27033

03/10/2023, 2:50 AM
@hundreds-evening-84071 Thanks for the response. So the conclusion is we need to run k3s-server along with k3s-agent to achieve Container Orchestration service requirement. Is my understanding correct?
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hundreds-evening-84071

03/10/2023, 11:50 AM
when you start k3s-server it should also start worker process, but if you start k3s-agent service you have to provide token from server. So, basically what I am trying to say is if you are only working on a single node then all you need to start is k3s-server service, no need to also start k3s-agent.
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jolly-army-27033

03/14/2023, 5:26 AM
Thanks for the clarity. I am having a hardware device of 512MB RAM. If I want to create and run 3 containers (4 applications/container), along with Container Orchestration service requirement, does running k3s-server alone is sufficient to achieve this requirement ?(considering only 512MB RAM memory available standpoint)
@hundreds-evening-84071, Any information on above query will be helpful for me to decide on using K3s for my project.
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hundreds-evening-84071

03/22/2023, 12:29 PM
I am not sure if I can answer your question. This, I think, you will have to experiment for your self. Some apps require more resources than other and resource requirements also depends on how the app will be used.
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jolly-army-27033

03/23/2023, 8:46 AM
Ok, Thanks for the reply.
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