One of the benefits of Loft has been the ability to add fine-grained control to your Kubernetes self-service engine. Our newest release allows you more flexibility to add project quotas, which includes on how many non-sleeping or active virtual clusters are allowed – giving you additional control over what your tenants can spin up.

You can now add hyperlinks for your Virtual Cluster and Spaces resources. This is a great way to attach relevant external link information to your respective clusters.

We are excited to announce that Loft v3 includes a deep integration with ArgoCD. For organizations embracing the declarative GitOps CD model either by already using ArgoCD or looking to implement ArgoCD, Loft has made it seamless for your ArgoCD pipelines to deploy into Loft managed virtual clusters and spaces.

Do you want to give your teams the ability to easily spin up your organization’s applications? Do you need a way to manage this plethora of applications in a scalable, uniform fashion?

Managing virtual clusters, spaces, and apps just got easier, as you can now version control your templates and apps by assigning them semantic version numbers (e.

Loft V3.0 comes with a new construct to group your virtual cluster and spaces across several clusters into “projects”, giving platform teams an easier way to manage and organize their team’s resources.

Platform Engineering: The Definitive Guide You may have heard the term “platform engineering.” In recent years, the role of platform engineer has become increasingly popular. As internet-based companies have grown, so has the desire to empower developers to own the entire development life cycle, from coding to shipping the code.

The widespread use of cloud-native applications, and therefore containers, has resulted in the development of numerous container orchestration tools, among which HashiCorp’s Nomad and Kubernetes stand out.

In recent years, Kubernetes has become the preferred choice for companies looking to run and manage large containerized workloads in an automated way. Kubernetes is an open source solution that was built to address the inherent shortcomings of running containers at scale in areas such as deployments, scaling of workloads, managing the underlying infrastructure, load balancing, and other networking components.

I did an introductory talk for PlatformCON about virtual Kubernetes clusters and the open source tool vcluster. vcluster allows you to create and manage virtual clusters, which are basically a control plane inside of a namespace on a shared host cluster.

We’re proud to announce our new terraform provider for Loft. For customers already managing infrastructure using Terraform, the terraform-provider-loft allows configuring Loft spaces and virtual clusters as terraform resources.

The latest episode of VMWare’s TGIK stream featured a hands-on look at vcluster. You can watch the recording below. If you’re not familiar with vcluster, it improves the Kubernetes multi-tenancy experience by letting users run virtual Kubernetes clusters inside a shared host cluster.