capsule VS hierarchical-namespaces

Compare capsule vs hierarchical-namespaces and see what are their differences.

hierarchical-namespaces

Home of the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC). Adds hierarchical policies and delegated creation to Kubernetes namespaces for improved in-cluster multitenancy. (by kubernetes-sigs)
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capsule

Posts with mentions or reviews of capsule. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.

hierarchical-namespaces

Posts with mentions or reviews of hierarchical-namespaces. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.
  • Efficient Cluster Management with Kubernetes’ Hierarchical Namespaces
    1 project | dev.to | 23 Mar 2024
    HNC_VERSION=v1.1.0 HNC_VARIANT=default kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces/releases/latest/download/hnc-manager.yaml
  • Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023
    Kubernetes has a lot of limitations from a multi tenancy perspective.

    It's functional, but I think it's not as polished as the rest of Kubernetes which is why Kubernetes has a multi tenancy SIG that spawned the hierarchical namespace controller (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces) and virtual clusters (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-nest...)

  • Automatically deploy objects after namespace creation
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 31 May 2023
    Kyverno's a great option. Depending on the usecase you might want to consider https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces as well (disclaimer: I'm the original author) - it's good if groups of related namespaces need related objects.
  • Multitenancy with Hierarchical namespaces
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Jun 2022
    ❯ HNC_VERSION=v1.0.0 ❯ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces/releases/download/${HNC_VERSION}/default.yaml namespace/hnc-system created customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/hierarchyconfigurations.hnc.x-k8s.io created customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/hncconfigurations.hnc.x-k8s.io created customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/subnamespaceanchors.hnc.x-k8s.io created role.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-leader-election-role created clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-admin-role created clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-manager-role created clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-proxy-role created rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-leader-election-rolebinding created clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-manager-rolebinding created clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hnc-proxy-rolebinding created secret/hnc-webhook-server-cert created service/hnc-controller-manager-metrics-service created service/hnc-webhook-service created deployment.apps/hnc-controller-manager created mutatingwebhookconfiguration.admissionregistration.k8s.io/hnc-mutating-webhook-configuration created validatingwebhookconfiguration.admissionregistration.k8s.io/hnc-validating-webhook-configuration created # Install helper plugin ❯ kubectl krew install hns
  • Is it anti-pattern to have multiple environments under a single namespace?
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 13 Apr 2022
    I would say it’s an anti-pattern since using a namespace for multiple environments will be a pain. Not sure what you mean by CRDs though. There is an addon that gives you namespace hierarchies. I.e. each team gets a namespace and they can have sub-namespaces for environments. Check it out: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces
  • Ask r/kubernetes: What are you working on this week?
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 2 Feb 2022
    Looking into the Hierarchical Namespace Controller to see if it can simplify our heavily multi-tenanted clusters. So far so good!
  • RBAC and limited namespace access
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 19 Dec 2021
    HNC is designed for these kinds of scenarios: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces
  • Introduction to Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2021
    Project HNC

What are some alternatives?

When comparing capsule and hierarchical-namespaces you can also consider the following projects:

vcluster - vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

kiosk - kiosk 🏢 Multi-Tenancy Extension For Kubernetes - Secure Cluster Sharing & Self-Service Namespace Provisioning

rbac-manager - A Kubernetes operator that simplifies the management of Role Bindings and Service Accounts.

kamaji - Kamaji is the Hosted Control Plane Manager for Kubernetes.

namespace-configuration-operator - The namespace-configuration-operator helps keeping configurations related to Users, Groups and Namespaces aligned with one of more policies specified as a CRs

kubeplus - Kubernetes Operator to create multi-instance SaaS from Helm charts using Kubernetes-native APIs

cluster-api-provider-nested - Cluster API Provider for Nested Clusters

loft - Namespace & Virtual Cluster Manager for Kubernetes - Lightweight Virtual Clusters, Self-Service Provisioning for Engineers and 70% Cost Savings with Sleep Mode

multi-tenancy - A working place for multi-tenancy related proposals and prototypes.

opensearch-k8s-operator - OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator

secrets-store-csi-driver - Secrets Store CSI driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.