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Introduction to Virtual Clusters in Kubernetes

With the increasing adoption of Kubernetes within organizations, the need for Kubernetes access for applications and engineers is also growing. Since it is neither feasible nor cost-efficient to always use whole physical Kubernetes clusters, virtualization for Kubernetes is the obvious solution.

Aug 13, 2020  ·  8 min read
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Virtual Clusters For Kubernetes with Loft v0.3

We’re proud to announce that loft is the first cloud-native technology that ships a stable implementation for virtualized Kubernetes clusters. With loft v0.3, users are now able to create virtual Kubernetes clusters (vClusters) in a matter of seconds either via a click on the UI, a single command with the loft CLI or by using the vCluster CRD (see the last paragraph for examples).

Aug 11, 2020  ·  6 min read
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Is Kubernetes Still Just an Ops Topic?

The idea for the container orchestrator Kubernetes is clearly stemming from infrastructure and operations challenges. How can I provide software at massive scale? How can I make it run in many datacenters around the world?

Jul 14, 2020  ·  6 min read
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How to Save More Than 2/3 of Engineers’ Kubernetes Cost

The Cost of the Cloud Using the cloud is not cheap. If you are using a public cloud, you will get a monthly bill for computing resources, traffic and for many additional services.

Jul 7, 2020  ·  14 min read
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The Journey of Adopting Cloud-Native Development

Adopting Kubernetes is a process that many companies are currently going through. The introduction of Kubernetes as infrastructure technology can take some time. (It took almost 2 years for Tinder to complete its migration to Kubernetes.

Jul 2, 2020  ·  11 min read
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Individual Kubernetes Clusters vs. Shared Kubernetes Clusters for Development

If you are on a higher level of cloud-native development (level 2 or higher according to this article about the typical cloud-native journey of companies), the developers in your team need to have a direct access to Kubernetes.

Jun 30, 2020  ·  14 min read