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Feb 14, 2023
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Quota Support for Active Clusters and All Kubernetes Resources
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.
Jan 12, 2023
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Adding External Links to Your Spaces and Virtual Clusters
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.
Oct 24, 2022
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Native Loft ArgoCD Integration
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.
Oct 24, 2022
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Application Syncing through Templates
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?
Oct 24, 2022
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Versioning Templates
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.
Oct 24, 2022
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Resource Management with Projects
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.
Sep 21, 2022
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Platform Engineering: The Definitive Guide
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.
Jul 19, 2022
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Nomad vs. Kubernetes: Picking the Right Tool in 2022
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.
Jul 11, 2022
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Terraform for Kubernetes: 10 Essentials You Need to Get Started
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.
Jun 29, 2022
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Virtual Kubernetes Cluster Use Cases at PlatformCON
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.
Jun 15, 2022
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Introducing the Loft Terraform Provider
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.
Mar 31, 2022
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vcluster on TGIK
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.
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