Loft v3 We are excited to announce that Loft v3 has shipped. Loft v3 brings new features, self-service virtual clusters at scale, and deeper GitOps integrations.

Kubernetes Platform Series Part 1: Kubernetes Self-service Part 2: Kubernetes Multi-tenancy Part 3: Kubernetes Cost Optimization with Virtual Clusters Multitenancy has long been a core capability of cloud computing, and indeed, for virtualization in general.

Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Series Part 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Multi-cluster Deployments Part 2: Managing Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle Part 3: Authentication and Access Control in Kubernetes Part 4: Kubernetes Self-Service and User Experience Part 5: Kubernetes Cost Optimization This article is the fifth part of a series focused on Kubernetes multi-cluster technology.

Kubernetes multi-tenancy is a mode of operation in Kubernetes where multiple users or workloads share cluster resources in isolation from each other. The users/workloads are referred to as tenants and are independent of each other while at the same time integrated into the cluster.

Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Series Part 1: Introduction to Kubernetes Multi-cluster Deployments Part 2: Managing Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle Part 3: Authentication and Access Control in Kubernetes Part 4: Kubernetes Self-Service and User Experience Part 5: Kubernetes Cost Optimization This article is the fourth part of a series focused on Kubernetes multi-cluster technology.

Kubernetes’s popularity continues to grow as increasing numbers of companies adopt it to manage their containerized workloads. According to the 2021 annual CNCF report, ninety-six percent of enterprises surveyed use Kubernetes to some extent—the highest since the survey began in 2016.

vcluster is an open source project that allows users to create and run virtual Kubernetes clusters inside of a shared cluster. A virtual cluster runs inside a namespace of the shared host cluster, but it appears to the user as a standalone, dedicated cluster.

Loft CEO Lukas Gentele and I recently joined Bret Fisher’s Docker and DevOps YouTube stream to talk about vcluster. It was great to stream with Bret.

We’re excited to announce that Loft v2 has shipped. v2 is a set of improvements that we think makes Loft even easier to use and more powerful.

Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele gave a talk about virtual Kubernetes clusters at KubeCon North America 2021, and the video is now available on YouTube. You can watch it below.

Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration system for automating your application deployment, scaling, and management, has matured so much recently that it’s expanded beyond its original operations usage and will likely continue to do so.

Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes can seem like an appealing solution to many problems. Maybe it’s to give your developers their own space and save costs by doing it inside a single cluster.