We are constantly deploying Kubernetes clusters, during the development phase as well as in our CIs for end-to-end testing, and each deployment takes a while. Most of the time we don’t really need a full Kubernetes deployment, we can do with something more lightweight, so we try to optimize the deployment time with tools like Minikube and MicroK8s, but there’s always people working on faster ways to deploy Kubernetes, and that’s what this post is about.