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Taking advantage of hardware acceleration can drastically reduce both CPU and power usage when playing video, enabling seemingly innocuous chips — like the Intel N100, to render multiple 4K video streams. In this article we’ll go through how to enable Intel® Quick Sync Video for hardware accelerated transcoding in containers orchestrated by Kubernetes.

Getting started with Kubernetes might seem like a daunting task at first, but getting a basic ephemeral cluster up and running with tools like minikube, kind, or k3d is quite straightforward if you follow their documentation. In this article we’ll explore how to bootstrap a more permanent, or production grade, Kubernetes cluster using k3s.