Self Service Kubernetes Namespaces | Loft Labs

Powerful Management UI For Namespaces

Sleep Mode & Auto-Delete

Loft's advanced inactivity detection monitors when engineers are not working with their namespaces and virtual clusters, so you can define rules for automatically putting pre-production environments to sleep or even configure Loft to automatically delete them after a certain period of inactivity.

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Create Namespaces On-Demand

Enable your engineering teams to create Kubernetes namespaces whenever they need them without having to loop in someone from IT with admin privileges.

Self-service namespaces help your engineers move faster and autonomously validate and test their code early on in the software development process.

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Work directly from your terminal

loft create space dev-api-server

Creating namespace...

Applying security templates to namespace...

Space 'dev-api-server' successfully created.

Loft has created a kube-context on your local machine to access this namespace. It is the current kube-context now.

kubectl get pods       # no need for --namespace

No pods in namespace dev-api-server

kubectl create deployment nginx-deployment --image=nginx

deployment.apps/nginx-deployment created

kubectl get pods

NAME                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
nginx-deployment-84cd76b964-mnvzz   1/1     Running   0          10m

loft list spaces

Name             Cluster             Sleeping   Status   Age   
dev-api-server   dev-eks-us-west-1   false      Active    14d
team-space-1     dev-eks-us-west-2   2h36m      Active    11d
ml-gpu-exp-4     aks-us-east-1       1h40m      Active    30d

loft delete space dev-api-server

Deleting namespace

Space 'dev-api-server' successfully deleted.

Successfully deleted kube context for space 'dev-api-server' from your local .kube/config file.

Let engineers collaborate in spaces whenever needed

loft use space dev-api-server

Loft has created a kube-context on your local machine to access this namespace. It is your current kube-context now.

kubectl get pods

NAME                    READY   STATUS    AGE
api-server-84cd76b964   1/1     Running   10m

Manage everything with kubectl

Loft's "Spaces" act as a virtual abstraction of Kubernetes namespaces ensure consistency and security.

Loft introcuces the Space as a custom resource. Spaces are virtual, so they don't actually get persisted in etcd but only exist as a virtual abstraction on top of regular namespaces. This has the benefit that there is no duplication but at the same time, you can manage spaces with kubectl just like regular Kubernetes namespaces but without the need to give users access to real namespaces or other cluster-wide resources.

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