> it seems like small clusters are not economical with vanilla kube Why, though? The memory footprint is a couple hundred MB. You do need ideally 3 nodes but y

> it seems like small clusters are not economical with vanilla kube Why, though? The memory footprint is a couple hundred MB. You do need ideally 3 nodes but you _can_ run in one. I have deployed a single-node MicroK8s without issues. Usually, the containers themselves (your workloads) are the hogs. Deploying multiple pod replicas in a single machine has innate inefficiencies.