Anthropic, with Claude, and Amazon, with Amazon Nova, have adopted Amazon EKS and its ultra scale capabilities to now scale a single cluster up to 100K nodes

Try it out

curl -sL get.konk.dev | bash

More info here: https://konk.dev

I tend to recommend minikube to new comers as it provides easy addons like ingress, image registry, load balancer via minikube tunnel. You can run minikube with 2GB Easy when only dealing with one node. Once your familiar then I will recommend Kind when you need more than one worker node and test scenario that require multiple nodes or if you know your way to install and configure addons yourself

It doesn’t need that much memory is only that consumes less memory for fast development of Kubernetes and extensions/CRD/controllers