vcluster

vCluster creates tenant clusters: fully isolated environments delivered as managed Kubernetes, or as the foundation for Slurm, Ray, Run:ai and inference clusters. Each gets its own API server, CRDs and RBAC, and runs on an existing cluster or standalone on bare metal. CNCF Certified Kubernetes. (by loft-sh)

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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 2026-04-28.
  • vCluster tutorial: virtual Kubernetes clusters per team
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Oct 2026
    vCluster fills that gap. Each team gets its own Kubernetes API server, its own CRDs and its own RBAC, while their workloads keep running on a shared host cluster. The tenant team gets a real cluster experience; the platform team gets a much smaller footprint. One caveat belongs up here rather than buried at the bottom: this raises the isolation bar, but on shared nodes it is not a hard security boundary. Teams still share the host kernel and the same underlying worker estate.
  • The Ingress NGINX Migration Just Got Easier: 119 Annotations, 3 Targets, Impact Ratings
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Apr 2026
    Let's walk through a complete migration on a real cluster. We'll use vCluster to spin up a Kubernetes cluster in Docker, deploy 3 services with NGINX annotations, and migrate them to Gateway API with Traefik.
  • Beyond the Cluster: Rethinking Your Kubernetes Platform Strategy
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2026
    Solutions like kcp or vCluster are CNCF projects that aims to scale/isolate the Kubernetes API by creating logical/virtual "workspaces," effectively providing Control-Plane-as-a-Service.
  • Show HN: Solving the cluster 1 problem with vCluster standalone
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2025
    I found this https://www.vcluster.com/pricing and found out through this page that although I thought vCluster was open source (https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster) the commercial tiers provide additional features.

    There's also KCP https://www.kcp.io/ but I don't know what are the big differentiators.

  • Registering a vCluster Kubernetes clusters with Sveltos: A Quick Start Guide
    1 project | dev.to | 11 Sep 2025
    Modern Kubernetes environments are rarely static. Teams spin up clusters for testing, staging, and production workloads. Sometimes these clusters are physical, sometimes managed by cloud providers, and increasingly, they’re virtual clusters (vClusters).
  • Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy
    1 project | dev.to | 30 May 2025
    Loft's vCluster is the most popular solution. Creating virtual clusters within your existing physical cluster gives each tenant a complete Kubernetes environment. Operating costs stay low because you're still only running one real cluster, but you gain improved isolation and a simplified tenant onboarding experience.
  • Even more OpenTelemetry - Kubernetes special
    8 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2025
    I was a victim of the IT crisis last summer, and my company fired me, so I no longer work on Apache APISIX. They say that the Chinese ideogram for crisis contains the ideogram for opportunity. I used this opportunity to join LoftLabs. LoftLabs offers a cluster virtualization solution called vCluster.
  • One giant Kubernetes cluster for everything
    1 project | dev.to | 20 Mar 2025
    vCluster is an Open Source product that allows creating of so-called virtual clusters. vCluster is part of the CNCF landscape, specifically a certified Kubernetes distribution. Being a certified distro means a virtual cluster offers every Kubernetes API you can expect, and you can deploy any application to it just like any other Kubernetes cluster.
  • WebAssembly on Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2025
    To compare the approaches and test our work, we can use the minikube ingress addon and vCluster. The former offers a single access point for all three workloads, native, embed, and runtime, while vCluster isolates workloads from each other in their virtual cluster.
  • Technical Guide: Syncing Ingress Resources from various Virtual Cluster on GKE with vCluster
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2025
    If you are hearing about virtual clusters for the first time, then read more here.
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    www.appsignal.com | 8 Oct 2026
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