Supply chain security has become increasingly important in cloud native space. Recent incidents like the xz backdoor and even SolarWinds have shown that implicit trust in upstream dependencies can have dangerous cascading effects. It's common practice for organizations to set up ...

We are excited to announce that vCluster v0.20 has moved from Beta to GA. This means all of the new features, like a unified helm chart, move from values.yaml to ‎vcluster.yaml, brand new documentation covering all of the updates, and more are ready to go. Keep up to date with th...

vCluster is an open source tool that helps you create isolated Kubernetes clusters within a single cluster. Let’s say you are part of a platform team responsible for building a platform that will hand out Kubernetes clusters to hundreds of teams within your organization. One tedi...

Platform engineers must maintain efficiency, boost security, and optimize costs when building apps. Yet traditional tools don't seem to provide solutions to these problems. Virtual Kubernetes clusters are now emerging as an ideal solution. This is because they have several qualit...

Despite being in high demand, the high cost and maintenance of GPU resources pose a problem for providers. A solution that reduces costs and improves efficiency is necessary. Enter multi-tenant Kubernetes. Multi-tenant Kubernetes allows different apps, workloads, and teams to liv...

We’re thrilled to introduce the beta release of vCluster v0.20.0, marking a significant milestone driven by user feedback and insights gathered over three years since we launched vCluster. With millions of vCluster instances deployed worldwide, we’ve leveraged a wealth of real-wo...

Navigating the complexities of Kubernetes can often feel like steering through uncharted waters, especially when it comes to ensuring security and managing multi-tenancy. As organizations continue to adopt Kubernetes at an accelerating pace, the need for more robust, scalable, an...

Having multiple tenants sharing a Kubernetes cluster makes sense from a cost perspective, but what’s the overhead? How much should you invest to keep the tenant isolated, and how does it compare to running several clusters? Before examining the costs, let’s look at the scale of t...

Namespaces are one of the fundamental resources in Kubernetes. But they don’t provide network isolation, are ignored by the scheduler and can’t limit resource usage. Also, they are not real and don’t exist in the infrastructure. The previous statement is at odds with the followin...

Balancing isolation, management ease, and cost is critical in multi-tenant Kubernetes setups. In this article, we’ll explore how to evaluate these factors to optimize resource utilization and tenant isolation. A key question when planning infrastructure is: how many Kubernetes cl...

Loft Labs’ “Building a Kubernetes Platform” series kicks off on February 29, 2024

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