[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":17},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-tag-en-control-plane":3},[4],{"path":5,"title":6,"description":7,"date":8,"tags":9},"\u002Fblog\u002Fen\u002Fk3s-kubeadm-memory-benchmark-datastore-comparison","Is K3s Really Lighter? We Benchmarked It Against Standard Kubernetes (kubeadm), and the Results Were Split","Is K3s really as lightweight as everyone says? We compare K3s and kubeadm-based standard Kubernetes control plane memory and CPU usage using official data and multiple independent benchmarks, and explain why the datastore choice (etcd vs SQLite) can flip the result.","2026-10-04",[10,11,12,13,14,15,16],"k3s","kubernetes","kubeadm","resource-profiling","memory-benchmark","control-plane","datastore-comparison",1792592710022]