kiosk VS loft

Compare kiosk vs loft and see what are their differences.

kiosk

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

loft

Namespace & Virtual Cluster Manager for Kubernetes - Lightweight Virtual Clusters, Self-Service Provisioning for Engineers and 70% Cost Savings with Sleep Mode (by loft-sh)
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kiosk loft
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0.0 9.0
6 months ago 7 days ago
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kiosk

Posts with mentions or reviews of kiosk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.
  • Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
    Kiosk
  • Dedicated backend resources per client
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 17 Dec 2022
    Have a look at https://github.com/loft-sh/kiosk and maybe the paid version https://loft.sh/
  • From Kubernetes to Plattform
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 2 Dec 2022
    As for the open source projects, maybe you would find Kiosk for allowing self-service namespace creation, namespace templates and cross-namespace resource limits and quotas.
  • Space boxing user accounts with Kiosk
    1 project | dev.to | 2 Jul 2022
    # Install kiosk with helm v3 ❯ kubectl create namespace kiosk helm install kiosk --repo https://charts.devspace.sh/ kiosk --namespace kiosk --atomic namespace/kiosk created NAME: kiosk ... Learn more about using kiosk here: https://github.com/loft-sh/kiosk#getting-started #verify ❯ kubectl get pod -n kiosk NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE kiosk-66dbfcf6db-5rfx2 1/1 Running 0 2m18s
  • Checklist for Platform Engineers
    6 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    Kubernetes was designed as a single-tenant platform. Sharing clusters, though, offers greater flexibility, simplifies infrastructure, and improves cost-efficiency. Therefore, it makes sense to use a multi-tenant system. To keep tenants separate and prevent compromised tenants from affecting others, you can use role-based access control (RBAC) or namespaces. Tools that assist with multi-tenancy in Kubernetes include kiosk and loft.
  • User management qustion
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Oct 2021
    For simple environments I'm using klum, for bigger environments I'm using OIDC with Keycloak. Beside that kiosk also looks interesting.
  • RBAC for developer self-service?
    3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 29 Jun 2021
    https://github.com/loft-sh/kiosk (from makers of loft)
  • Meet Rich Burroughs - Loft Blog
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Apr 2021

loft

Posts with mentions or reviews of loft. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-16.
  • Guide to Deploying Jellyfin and Jellyseerr on Kubernetes with Terraform.
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 26 Jan 2023
    3) Have you ever considered integrating vclusters into your module?
  • Introduction to Virtual Clusters in Kubernetes
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    loft vClusters:
  • Kubectl Login: Solving Authentication For Kubernetes
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    curl -s -L "https://github.com/loft-sh/loft/releases/latest" | sed -nE 's!.*"([^"]*loft-darwin-amd64)".*!https://github.com\1!p' | xargs -n 1 curl -L -o loft && chmod +x loft; sudo mv loft /usr/local/bin;
  • Loft v2 is Here
    1 project | dev.to | 16 Jun 2022
    There are many other new and shiny things in Loft v2, like the ability to pass parameters to apps you install via Loft, improved descriptions in the UI, and the ability to open a terminal to a running pod from the UI. For the complete list of new features and improvements, see the full release notes.
  • Kubernetes and LDAP: Enterprise Authentication for Kubernetes
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022
    # Windows Powershell md -Force "$Env:APPDATA\loft"; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Tls,Tls11,Tls12'; Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing ((Invoke-WebRequest -URI "https://github.com/loft-sh/loft/releases/latest" -UseBasicParsing).Content -replace "(?ms).*`"([^`"]*loft-windows-amd64.exe)`".*","https://github.com/`$1") -o $Env:APPDATA\loft\loft.exe; $env:Path += ";" + $Env:APPDATA + "\loft"; [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User);

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kiosk and loft you can also consider the following projects:

capsule - Multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes.

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.

argo-cd - Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

Openshift Origin - Conformance test suite for OpenShift

ingress-nginx - Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

klum - Kubernetes Lazy User Manager

devspace - DevSpace - The Fastest Developer Tool for Kubernetes ⚡ Automate your deployment workflow with DevSpace and develop software directly inside Kubernetes.

sandbox-operator - A Kubernetes operator for creating isolated environments

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

devspace-plugin-loft - Loft Plugin for DevSpace - adds commands like `devspace create space` or `devspace create vcluster` to DevSpace