Lightweight Kubernetes for local development — K3s and Kind for testing clusters before deploying to production.
I use K3s and Kind to run full Kubernetes clusters locally for development and testing. K3s is my go-to for lightweight single-node clusters that mirror production environments. Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) is perfect for CI/CD pipeline testing. Both let me validate Helm charts, test deployments, and debug networking before pushing to GCP/AWS production clusters.