2 years ago

Category: Security, Microsoft, Kubernetes, firewall

Kubecon+CloudNativeCon is a sponsor of The New Stack. However, more clusters mean more cluster management headaches for platform teams, and more energy consumption and negative consequences for the environment, as IBM‘s Holly Cummins mentioned in her keynote from KubeCon+CloudNative Con EU earlier this year. Virtual clusters are a new approach that allows teams to share clusters without some of the pain involved with Kubernetes multitenancy.

As of today, two working flavors of virtual clusters have emerged: These two projects have different takes on how to implement virtual clusters, but share the goal of enabling platform teams to reduce cluster sprawl.

How virtual clusters can help: The momentum for virtual clusters is growing, and it’s easy to see why.