Learn about Virtual Kubernetes Clusters at KubeCon North America

The program for KubeCon North America 2021 has been announced, and two of the talks can help you get up to speed with virtual Kubernetes clusters.

Aug 9, 2021  ·  1 min read

Save Costs With Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

Virtual Kubernetes clusters are fully functional Kubernetes clusters that run within another Kubernetes cluster. The difference between a regular Kubernetes namespace and a virtual cluster is that a virtual cluster has its own separate Kubernetes control plane and storage backend.

Jul 27, 2021  ·  6 min read

A Look at vcluster with Viktor Farcic

It’s been great to see so many folks making videos about vcluster. This one is from Viktor Farcic who is a Developer Advocate at Upbound. Viktor explains how vcluster works, and also dives in and does a great demo.

Jul 20, 2021  ·  1 min read

Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy: Why Virtual Clusters Are The Best Solution

As your organization grows and Kubernetes becomes more integrated into your daily workflow, more complex needs will arise. You probably started with a single cluster for everything, but now you see a need for multiple clusters.

Jul 19, 2021  ·  6 min read

Let's Learn vcluster with Saiyam Pathak

Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele joined Saiyam Pathak on his stream to talk about vcluster. This video is another great way to get up to speed on vlcuster if you’ve heard about it and are curious.

Jul 13, 2021  ·  1 min read

Rawkode Live: Hands-on Introduction to vcluster

Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele and I joined David McKay, AKA Rawkode, to talk about vcluster on his show Rawkode Live. If you’ve not seen Rawkode Live, David looks at a piece of technology from an end-user’s perspective.

Jul 1, 2021  ·  1 min read

vcluster Becomes First Certified Kubernetes Distribution for Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

San Francisco - Loft Labs, which enables any organization to scale self-service access to Kubernetes to hundreds or even thousands of engineers, today announced that the latest version v0.

Jun 22, 2021  ·  2 min read

Kubernetes Namespaces vs. Virtual Clusters

If you need to spin up a Kubernetes environment to run your end-to-end tests, what do you do? Of course, you want your setup to mirror production, but starting a Kubernetes cluster (or multiple clusters) is resource-intensive and slow.

Jun 21, 2021  ·  7 min read

vcluster Inception Video

Running a virtual cluster inside a Kubernetes cluster is cool, but running a virtual cluster inside a virtual cluster is some real inception. Watch this YouTube video to see how you can do this with our open source virtual cluster tool called vcluster, or read the transcript below if you prefer.

May 24, 2021  ·  5 min read

Loft Labs Open-Sources Virtual Cluster Technology for Kubernetes

San Francisco - Loft Labs, which makes Kubernetes easily accessible to developers, today announced that vcluster, a first-of-its-kind virtual cluster technology for Kubernetes, is now freely available on GitHub and on www.

Apr 19, 2021  ·  2 min read

Kubernetes CRDs = Huge Pain In Multi-Tenant Clusters

Kubernetes multi-tenancy provides a number of business and technical advantages over single-tenant clusters. However, multi-tenancy also brings several challenges and pain points with it, one of which is handling Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs).

Dec 9, 2020  ·  9 min read

Virtual Kubernetes Clusters In Production

The idea of virtual Kubernetes clusters (vClusters) is to spin up a fully-functional cluster within another Kubernetes clusters to provide an efficient abstraction and direct Kubernetes access on top of a shared underlying cluster.

Oct 7, 2020  ·  7 min read

Kubernetes Cost Savings By Reducing The Number Of Clusters

When you are using Kubernetes at a larger scale and at different stages (development, testing, production), you will sooner or later face the question of how many clusters you should run.

Oct 5, 2020  ·  8 min read

Kubernetes Sandboxes – Easy Development in a Realistic Environment

Using sandbox environments is very common for software developers because it allows them to work, test, and experiment in an environment that is isolated from the production system but still provides a realistic experience.

Sep 30, 2020  ·  8 min read

Kubernetes Development Environments – A Comparison

Kubernetes has left the state when it was mostly an ops technology behind and now is also very relevant for many developers. As I wrote in my blog post about the Kubernetes workflow, the first step for every developer who starts to directly work with Kubernetes is to set up/get access to a Kubernetes development environment.

Sep 23, 2020  ·  17 min read

Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy – A Best Practices Guide

Kubernetes multi-tenancy is a topic that more and more organizations are interested in as their Kubernetes usage spreads out. However, since Kubernetes is not a multi-tenant system per se, getting multi-tenancy right comes with some challenges.

Sep 21, 2020  ·  8 min read

Kubernetes: Virtual Clusters For AI & ML Experiments

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have been some of the hottest IT topics in recent years. A recent O’Reilly survey discovered that 85% of companies are already using AI or are evaluating it.

Sep 10, 2020  ·  6 min read

Kubernetes: Virtual Clusters As Development Environments

Kubernetes has matured so much recently that it even expanded beyond its original space as operations technology. So, also at least 1.7 million developers are already using Kubernetes as “The State of Cloud Native Development” by the CNCF stated for Q2 2019.

Aug 31, 2020  ·  8 min read

Kubernetes: Virtual Clusters For CI/CD & Testing

The use of virtual clusters (vClusters) in Kubernetes, i.e. running virtual clusters inside of physical clusters, has the potential to disrupt the use of Kubernetes in a variety of settings, from cloud-native development to machine learning experiments.

Aug 26, 2020  ·  7 min read

Virtual Clusters For Kubernetes - Benefits & Use Cases

Virtual Kubernetes Clusters (vClusters) have the potential to bring Kubernetes adoption to the next level. They are running in a physical Kubernetes cluster and can be used in the same way as normal clusters, but still are just a virtual construct.

Aug 24, 2020  ·  8 min read

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

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