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Kubernetes related, both on the nodes and within the containers. Alpine does contain almost every package you need for running Kubernetes, like k3s, helm, k9s, argocd, traefik or caddy. So clusters can be set up with minimal scripting or Ansible playbooks. Best regards, Harald