I have been doing k3s on a Digital Ocean droplet and I would say k3s has really given me an opportunity to learn some k8s basics without truly having to install and stand up every single component of a usable k8s cluster (ingress provider, etc) on my own.
It took a bit to figure out setting up an https cert provider but then it was pretty much off to the races
It took a bit to figure out setting up an https cert provider but then it was pretty much off to the races