--- title: Canonical MicroK8s Reviews meta_title: 'Canonical MicroK8s Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 17 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Canonical MicroK8s works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 17 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # Canonical MicroK8s Reviews **Vendor:** Canonical Ltd. **Category:** [Container Engine Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-engine) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Canonical MicroK8s MicroK8s is pure upstream Kubernetes, not a subset. We keep it small with sensible choices that just work. That makes a quick install, with easy upgrades and great security — and leaves your options open later. ## Canonical MicroK8s Reviews ### 1. One of the fastest ways to get a running Kubernetes setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amith K. | Software Engineer (SDE2) - Innovation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Canonical MicroK8s?** Lightweight, opinionated services that bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster without having to specify options explicitly **What do you dislike about Canonical MicroK8s?** Currently, microk8s does not support creating ingresses from WSL2 environments with a one step command **What problems is Canonical MicroK8s solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to set up dev and edge kubernetes clusters without having to manually configure services like prometheus ### 2. ZeroOps deployments! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shishir B. | S, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Canonical MicroK8s?** - Cross-platform support -Zero downtime deployments - Self-healing & reconciliation features - lightweight cluster footprint - Networking options (Istio, Ingress, etc.) **What do you dislike about Canonical MicroK8s?** Nothing that I did not quite like. The lightweight footprint is well-advertised, which is appreciable. That allows consumers to pick and choose the right alternative. **What problems is Canonical MicroK8s solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Full containerized k8s solution - Batteries-included allow focus on application architecture ### 3. A good tool to add to your arsenal, but can be difficult to master **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Canonical MicroK8s?** The installation procedure is quite easy on virtual machine clusters, also it is a fundamental requirement to use kubernetes and makes managing clusters very easy. **What do you dislike about Canonical MicroK8s?** If you mess up the installation in your local personal computer or workdesk, it can mess up the entire OS. For me I did a mistake while installation and lost access to display drivers and had to reinstall everything from scratch. **What problems is Canonical MicroK8s solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were trying to deploy production-ready kubernetes clusters for a cross-platform react native app. The backend was supposed to handle parallel incoming connections and route calls appropriately. ### 4. Light weight kubernetes engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Canonical MicroK8s?** 1. Snap store - can be installed in one command from the store 2. Istio ingress can be enabled as a sidecar service Prometheus, kiali, grafana, jaeger dashboard 3. Multi-node clusters can be enabled. 4. Managed by ubuntu team 5. MicroK8S can be installed in 10 minutes 6. Support all Kubernetes features **What do you dislike about Canonical MicroK8s?** 1. Load balancing - running open prem needs to have Nginx or any reverse proxy for routing trafiic to istio ingress **What problems is Canonical MicroK8s solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to migrate a few independent services to microservices; we don't have the workforce to configure the Kubernetes cluster from scratch. So we did use microk8s to started the Kube cluster in few minutes. ### 5. Good for beginners, not recommended for production **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Canonical MicroK8s?** - Easy to use - Lots of information - Lots of guides **What do you dislike about Canonical MicroK8s?** - Prone to errors - Unresponsive after a ram saturation because of ingress unexplained loop - Its embedded in SNAP **Recommendations to others considering Canonical MicroK8s:** Don't use it for production; we recently switched to Debian **What problems is Canonical MicroK8s solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Testing environments - Proof of concepts - Development environments ### 6. Microk8s for Edge **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Canonical MicroK8s?** Easy install and adopt on any architecture **What do you dislike about Canonical MicroK8s?** some of the logs are not understandable and not enough documents **What problems is Canonical MicroK8s solving and how is that benefiting you?** used for edge deploymnt ## Canonical MicroK8s Discussions - [What is Canonical MicroK8s used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-canonical-microk8s-used-for) - [View Canonical MicroK8s pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/canonical-microk8s/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-14+07%3A20%3A05+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=99aa1546-234b-4aab-8fb9-9773f8507501&secure%5Btoken%5D=0f4bcf8869924c8a1ade9b47013248ce88ab7f9ec254dc1b9580e4d27b4e0936&format=llm_user) ## Canonical MicroK8s Features **Application Support** - Deployment - Interface support - Processor support - Application Support **System Capability** - Self Healing High Availability - Orchestration - Scalability **Security** - Automatic Security Updates - Security updates ## Top Canonical MicroK8s Alternatives - [Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-openshift-kubernetes-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (15 reviews) - [Docker](https://www.g2.com/products/docker-inc-docker/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (293 reviews) - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (933 reviews)