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What is MicroK8s?

A self-contained Kubernetes distribution providing high availability and minimal operational overhead. Designed for rapid deployment across development machines, datacenters, and edge infrastructure with integrated monitoring, networking, and container services.

Independently observed

MicroK8s pricing

We don't have MicroK8s's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
Open sourceFree tier

Open source with optional Ubuntu Pro support

What MicroK8s does

The capabilities that matter for container orchestration tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Orchestration scope
Kubernetes
Deployment
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Standards
OCI / CRI compliant
-
CNCF Certified Kubernetes conformant
✓
Security
Rootless operation
-
Architecture
Daemonless architecture
-
Platform
Windows containers
-
ARM architecture support
-
Workloads
GPU scheduling
✓
Stateful workloads
-
Networking
Built-in networking / CNI
✓
Ops
Vendor-managed control plane
✗
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
-
UX
GUI dashboard
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Linux
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (9)

Independently observed
  • Knative
  • Fluentd
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Metrics
  • Ingress
  • DNS
  • Dashboard
  • Clustering

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for MicroK8s, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 46 / 100
high · 77%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability450.167.1✓
Pricing transparency800.065.0✓
Price level1000.044.2✓
Capabilities670.064.2✓
Integrations290.082.4✓
Release cadence400.052.1✓
Stars750.031.9✓
Security score440.041.8✓
Dependent projects00.060.0-
Development activity00.090.0✓
Security posture00.120.0-
Package downloads00.140.0-
Developer Q&A activity00.060.0-

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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d0mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars9,357highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
CapabilitiesHosting: both · Gui dashboard: Yes · Orchestration: kubernetes · Gpu scheduling: Yes · K8s conformant: Yes · Managed control plane: Nomediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count9mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryPythonhighsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxApache-2.0highsource · 2026-08-26 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60%
Modelcommerciallowsource · 2026-08-26 · 48%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days108mediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70%
History20 itemsmediumsource · 2026-08-26 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.9mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Scorecard4.4highsource · 2026-08-26 · 90%