Portainer announced KubeSolo, its new Kubernetes distribution created specifically for resource-constrained (e.g., IoT) environments. KubeSolo is able to consume as little as 200 MB of RAM and is rightfully called “ultra-lightweight” for this reason.

Some of the project's peculiarities:
- Using SQLite (via Kine) instead of etcd as the default storage backend;
- Replacing the Kubernetes scheduler with a custom webhook;
- Running many components inside a single process and optimising resource limits;
- Ditching the clustering support.

KubeSolo is packaged as a single binary and has minimal OS dependencies. Find more details about this new project on its GitHub repo and website.

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