There’s been a lot of interest in dev containers since GitHub launched Codespaces in 2020. While Codespaces can be an excellent solution for some projects, it is a managed service, which can have some downsides.

2022 was a very exciting year for vcluster. If you’re unfamiliar with vcluster, it’s an open source tool for creating and managing virtual Kubernetes clusters. Virtual clusters are lightweight and run in a namespace of an underlying host cluster but appear to the users as if they’re full-blown clusters.

The CNCF Sandbox provides a neutral home for external contributions to the lightweight, easy-to-use client-only command-line interface Loft Labs, provider of developer tooling and multi-tenancy solutions for Kubernetes, today announced that it has contributed the open source project DevSpace to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software.

It’s no secret that the cloud-native space is booming, and the world is moving increasingly toward cloud-based solutions. It’s important for organizations to keep up with the latest trends and developments in their industry to stay relevant and competitive, which is where influencers come in.

CNCF, or the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is a nonprofit organization that hosts and promotes a growing ecosystem of open source projects that help write software that can run anywhere.

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup working on developer tooling and multi-tenancy solutions for Kubernetes, today announced the release of a Cluster API provider for the popular open-source vcluster technology.

When you hear the phrase “cloud native,” is Kubernetes the first thing that comes to your mind? It is for me, and I expect I’m not alone.

Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup working on developer tooling and platform technology for Kubernetes, today announced a Plugin System & SDK (software development kit) for its popular open-source project vcluster, enabling the project’s user community and other software providers in the cloud-native space to customize the synchronization logic of the vcluster “syncer” component.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2022. The Kubernetes space continues to explode, and I thought I’d share a shortlist of some companies that I’ll be keeping an eye on this year.

Kubernetes brings some challenges to developers. They need to learn some new concepts, how they connect to each other, and most importantly, how to develop applications using a Kubernetes cluster.

I was recently on a YouTube stream explaining jsPolicy, an open source project for managing policies in Kubernetes clusters that we maintain at Loft Labs. CEO Lukas Gentele joined me, and our host was Saiyam Pathak.

In this series, we’re looking at alternatives to using Docker Compose for building apps that run in Kubernetes clusters. While Compose is a handy way to stand up apps locally, there are advantages to running your apps in a Kubernetes environment while you develop.