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I've tried several of the kubes and k3s for my personal projects works well. I'd use it for work too if I had different options. I think Rancher Desktop might c

I've tried several of the kubes and k3s for my personal projects works well. I'd use it for work too if I had different options. I think Rancher Desktop might cost though so I use kubectl to do everything.

mook 4y ago
(Disclaimer: Rancher Desktop developer) Rancher Desktop is fully Apache 2 licensed, so I think that shouldn't be an issue — even if it somehow ends up closed source at one point, at worst somebody can start a fork from the last public release and go from there. Our release process for Windows & Linux literally involves pulling the build from GitHub, attaching signatures on top, and pushing the bits back up. (There's some QA in the middle, but that doesn't change the bits.) The only reason we don't do that for Mac is because we haven't sorted out the signing there using this flow. Note that Docker Desktop wasn't open source (but the core Docker engine was), which is why they can start charging money for the binaries and not worry about somebody making a fork. Having said that — feel free to continue using kubectl to do everything; whatever floats your boat is good :)