Portainer has always championed simplicity in container management. But when we looked at the far-edge (really looked) we saw a gap. Existing Kubernetes distributions were too heavy, too complex, or too cloud-first. We needed something purpose-built for single-node deployments on IOT hardware, stripped of unnecessary clustering, and lean enough to run on the kinds of devices you'd find in factories, smart buildings, or retail kiosks.
So we built KubeSolo, a hardened, single-node fork of k3s, with clustering and HA logic removed, ingress simplified, and defaults tuned for resource-limited environments.
We're on a mission to make containers accessible anywhere.
From the cloud to the edge, and now to the smallest corners of your infrastructure.