Save Costs With Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

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  • 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.

    Virtual Kubernetes clusters are fully functional Kubernetes clusters that run within another Kubernetes cluster. The difference between a regular Kubernetes namespace and a virtual cluster is that a virtual cluster has its own separate Kubernetes control plane and storage backend. Only a handful of core resources, such as pods and services, are actually shared among the virtual and host cluster. All other resources, such as CRDs, statefulsets, deployments, webhooks, jobs, etc., only exist in the pure virtual Kubernetes cluster.

  • k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

    With version v0.3.0, vcluster an open source implementation of the virtual Kubernetes cluster pattern and that builds upon the lightweight Kubernetes distribution k3s, now also became a certified Kubernetes distribution and is 100% Kubernetes API compatible. This makes virtual clusters now even more interesting to use.

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