As platform engineering teams scale Kubernetes adoption, choosing the right multi-tenancy model becomes crucial. This article compares Red Hat's HyperShift and Loft Labs’ vCluster, highlighting the trade-offs in resource usage, ecosystem compatibility, portability, and vendor lock-in. Learn why vCluster’s lightweight, upstream-native approach is often better suited for modern internal platforms.

The v0.25 release of vCluster brings native support for Istio’s Ambient Mesh, enabling shared service mesh capabilities across multiple virtual clusters without sidecars. This update dramatically reduces resource overhead, simplifies operations, and boosts scalability in multi-tenant Kubernetes environments.

Traditional multi-tenancy in Kubernetes often leads to complex RBAC, noisy neighbors, and security headaches. This post breaks down why platform teams struggle with namespace-based isolation, and how virtual clusters offer a better path forward.

Kubernetes 1.33, codenamed "Octarine: The Color of Magic", lands with 64 feature updates. This blog dives into the most impactful ones and shows how to try them immediately with vCluster. From in-place pod resizing to ClusterTrustBundle, here’s what’s new.

Kubernetes changed how we build and deploy software, but are you still clinging to virtual machines out of habit? In this post, Scott McAllister walks through the evolution of enterprise computing, from mainframes to microservices, to help you rethink your current infrastructure choices. Is it time to go bare metal?

Discover why enterprises in 2025 are shifting from traditional VMware based virtual machines to modern, Kubernetes-native architectures. Learn how adopting Kubernetes closer to bare metal simplifies infrastructure, reduces costs, and enhances scalability and efficiency.

Well, well, well, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025 has come to an end, and we made so many friends and memories! Let's review some of the exciting things our team did at KubeCon: Platinum Sponsors at Platform Engineering Day: The buzz around platform engineering and internal deve...

What about Rancher? Does vCluster work on Rancher? How do we manage virtual clusters on Rancher? Hey, what about Rancher? These are just a few of the questions we have heard over the last couple of years at KubeCon, on the interwebs, and everywhere in between. The answer was alwa...

Kubernetes was designed for efficient resource sharing, but complexity escalates when multiple teams or users step into the same cluster. As organizations scale, the challenge isn't just about running workloads; it's about how those workloads coexist securely and efficiently.

KubeCon is around the corner, and we at LoftLabs are excited to be back for the 2025 Europe Edition! The projected number of attendees speaks to the scale of the cloud-native landscape, and we’re so excited to mark our presence with talks, activities, and being a proud sponsor. V...

When we first launched vCluster in 2021, our mission was clear: make Kubernetes multi-tenancy easier, safer, and more cost-efficient. Since then, we've helped organizations around the globe manage Kubernetes with greater flexibility and security. But as Kubernetes usage expanded,...

I’m excited to present the updates coming with vCluster v0.24. In this post, we will cover Snapshots and Sleep Mode Improvements. Along with this post, we have a couple of videos that will demo both features. Snapshots Let’s start by talking about Snapshots. While you were always...