vcluster VS prometheus

Compare vcluster vs prometheus and see what are their differences.

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. (by loft-sh)
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vcluster

Posts with mentions or reviews of vcluster. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.
  • Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023
    Kubernetes? You mean the container orchestration system where they forgot to add Multi-tenancy? And no namespaces are not Multi-tenancy...

    https://www.vcluster.com/

  • Mirantis Unveils K0smotron: An Open-Source Kubernetes Management Project
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Aug 2023
    Whats the difference between this and vcluster (https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster)?
  • Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
    Yep, as we see it they compliment each other quite well. DevPod takes your workspace to the cloud and DevSpace let's you develop against your Kubernetes cluster - potentially the same one you used to start your workspace.

    Internally we use both in our development setup, spinning up remote workspaces using DevPod, installing DevSpace and kind into the devcontainer, then using DevSpace to develop against the cluster. See the vcluster setup[1] as an example

    [1]https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/tree/main/.devcontainer

  • Anyone using Kata Containers?
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 23 Apr 2023
    The tenants are internal dev teams so yeah maybe not. I was considering multi-tenanting different environments isolated at the kube layer with vCluster and have the vCluster pods running in Kata containers giving maximum isolation but still having a single management cluster. Ideally also avoiding the need to buy a second set of hardware for a dev environment
  • Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
    Vcluster
  • Kub'rin' a breeze: Developing on ephemeral cloud-based K8s clusters
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 5 Apr 2023
    Looks interesting. How does this solution compare to vcluster?
  • Same cluster for different development environments
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 20 Mar 2023
    sounds like the best option for you , is a tool called VCluster by loft ( https://www.vcluster.com/) , this way you can install as many k8s cluster as you want in the same k8s host cluster , those cluster share workers nodes and networking, but each has a separated "api server" , so it looks like you have a dedicated cluster with their own namespaces and tools . take a look at the docs to get a better understanding and how they work.
  • Is it a good idea to use k8s namespace-based multitenancy for delivering managed service of an application?
    4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 18 Mar 2023
    We're about to run a PoC with vcluster for isolated sandboxes, this might be relevant to you too
  • Questions for Heroku-like Project
    6 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Mar 2023
    I think namespaces, RBAC and network policies are sufficient to partition users from the same organisation. I would investigate the use of vcluster ig you want to give your users even more isolation and capability (such as installing CRDs)
  • Multiple Tenancy, Namespaces, Securing Workloads
    1 project | /r/kubernetes | 24 Feb 2023
    Depends on the use case. Namespaces provides soft isolation (so it means they share same Apiserver, PV's and global resources such as CRD's), but can be restricted with network policies. So it means, there's still potential in breaking other namespaces if you change PV's or CRD's which are used by other namespaces. Multi-Cluster solution can provide full isolation, but its also really expensive in resource consumption and maintenance/management effort. If namespaced-isolation isnt enough for your use case, you can consider vclusters (https://www.vcluster.com/)

prometheus

Posts with mentions or reviews of prometheus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
  • Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024
    WriteRequest::timeseries is a vector (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/prompb/re...) and
  • Tools for frontend monitoring with Prometheus
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    Developers widely use Prometheus as a system for operational monitoring and alerting for their projects. Here is a list of tools for monitoring frontend services with Prometheus.
  • The power of the CLI with Golang and Cobra CLI
    9 projects | dev.to | 6 Apr 2024
    Just to give an example of the power of Go for CLI builds, you may have already used or at least heard of Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, but what do they all have in common? They all have a large part of their usability via CLI and are developed in Go 🐿.
  • On Implementation of Distributed Protocols
    23 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    Distributed system administrators need mechanisms and tools for monitoring individual nodes in order to analyze the system and promptly detect anomalies. Developers also need effective mechanisms for analyzing, diagnosing issues, and identifying bugs in protocol implementations. Logging, tracing, and collecting metrics are common observability techniques to allow monitoring and obtaining diagnostic information from the system; most of the explored code bases use these techniques. OpenTelemetry and Prometheus are popular open-source monitoring solutions, which are used in many of the explored code bases.
  • Golang: out-of-box backpressure handling with gRPC, proven by a Grafana dashboard
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    Setting up monitoring for a system, especially one involving GRPC communication, provides crucial visibility into its operations. In this guide, we walked through the steps to instrument both a GRPC server and client with Prometheus metrics, exposed those metrics via an HTTP endpoint, and visualized them using Grafana. The Docker-Compose setup simplified the deployment of both Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring a streamlined process.
  • Monitoring, Observability, and Telemetry Explained
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Apr 2024
    Alerting and Notification: Select a tool with flexible alerting mechanisms to proactively detect anomalies or deviations from defined thresholds. Consider asking questions like "Does this tool offer customizable alerting options and support notification channels that suit our team's communication preferences?" A tool like Prometheus provides robust alerting capabilities.
  • Observability at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris
    7 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2024
    Prometheus
  • Top 5 Docker Container Monitoring Tools in 2024
    1 project | dev.to | 24 Mar 2024
    Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit. It is designed to monitor highly dynamic containerized systems, making it an excellent choice for monitoring Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.
  • Install and Setup Grafana & Prometheus on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04/EC2
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024
    wget https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v2.46.0/prometheus-2.46.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
  • 4 facets of API monitoring you should implement
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    Prometheus: Open-source monitoring system. Often used together with Grafana.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vcluster and prometheus you can also consider the following projects:

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

metrics-server - Scalable and efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

kind - Kubernetes IN Docker - local clusters for testing Kubernetes

skywalking - APM, Application Performance Monitoring System

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

Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin

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

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

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

JavaMelody - JavaMelody : monitoring of JavaEE applications

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

Glowroot - Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM