vCluster Insights – August 2025 Edition

Product Updates, Events & Community

Welcome back to Insights, your monthly roundup of all things vCluster: product launches, platform upgrades, community highlights, and smarter ways to build in Kubernetes.

Before we jump into this month’s updates, a quick note: Loft Labs is now vCluster Labs. This isn’t a big shift, just a clearer reflection of what we’ve been all along, focused on building the best tooling for Kubernetes tenancy. Same team, same products, same mission… now under the name that most of our community already knows us by.

This edition brings you our latest release, event highlights from a packed month on the road, and what’s coming next in the world of multi-tenant platforms.

🚀 Product Updates

vCluster v0.27 - Private Nodes Are Here With Private Nodes, you can now attach dedicated Kubernetes nodes to a virtual cluster for complete isolation, your own CNI/CSI, node-level security, and no workload syncing to the host. Built for regulated workloads, GPU-heavy environments, and teams that want hard isolation without managing dozens of clusters.

• Isolate workloads at the node, network, and storage levels
• Support for GPU scheduling per tenant
• Full integration with existing vCluster workflows

This release kicks off our Future of Kubernetes Tenancy Launch Series - three releases that cover every tenancy model, from dev namespaces to fully isolated clusters. Next up: Auto Nodes and Standalone vCluster in the coming months.

Learn More →

🌐 Events & Community

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 – We Were There!

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India, we:

• Delivered the keynote: “From Outage tv0.27 o Observability: Lessons from a Kubernetes Meltdown” by Saiyam Pathak
• Connected with India’s growing cloud-native community to discuss real-world multi-tenancy challenges and solutions

Other August events we were part of:

• Cloud Native Summit Munich – At this community gathering in Europe, Piotr Krzyżanowski presented “Building Multitenant Developer Platforms With vCluster”, showing how virtual clusters simplify developer experiences and platform operations.
• CNCF Cloud Native Chandigarh Edition – At this CNCF meetup, Saiyam Pathak delivered “Bare Metal GPU Infrastructure: Challenges and Solutions”, highlighting real-world lessons on running GPU workloads reliably at scale.
• #cTENcf Hyderabad – As part of CNCF’s 10-year anniversary celebration, Hrittik Roy presented “Embracing Multitenancy: Transforming Enterprises for the Future”, exploring how enterprises can adopt and scale multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms.
• CNCF Meetup (Taiwan) – At this community event, Hrittik Roy spoke on “Multi-Tenancy in the Kubernetes Era”, discussing patterns and practices for secure, isolated workloads.
• Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) – Scott McAllister presented “Are You Covered? Falling in Love with E2E Testing”, showing why end-to-end testing matters and how to make it a practice teams actually enjoy.

We’re hitting the road this month with more speaking opportunities and live demos. Catch us at:

• Container Days – Saiyam Pathak will share “13 Kubernetes Hacks You Didn’t Know You Needed”, a collection of practical tips and tricks to make your Kubernetes experience smoother and more efficient.
• AI Infra Summit – Lukas Gentele will present “Securing Containerized AI Workloads On The Edge – A Primer For Secure Kubernetes On Bare Metal Edge Devices,” exploring how to run AI workloads securely in edge environments.
• KCD San Francisco – Scott McAllister will share ‘Three Tenancy Modes, One Platform: Rethinking Flexibility in Kubernetes Tenancy’, exploring how different teams need different levels of isolation — from shared to dedicated to private nodes, and how vCluster makes it simple to deliver each model with flexibility and security.

See you there? 👋

📰 News & Articles

• NVIDIAscape & Container Breakouts: What You Need to Know - Understanding GPU container breakout risks and how vNode mitigates them.
• vCluster v0.27: Introducing Private Nodes - How to achieve efficiency and hard isolation without managing dozens of clusters.
• Scaling Kubernetes Without etcd Sharding - Why etcd becomes a bottleneck and how vCluster sidesteps it with per-tenant control planes.

🎓 Tutorials, Videos & Podcasts

• Launch Webinar: Private Nodes - Lukas, Fabian, and Mike walk through node-level isolation, GPU setups, and “tenancy as code.”
• vCluster Fridays - Weekly live series featuring real-world use cases, integrations, and deep dives.

💬 From the Socials

The community has been buzzing with deep dives, talks, and real-world experiences:

• Expedia’s Argo CD Load Test - Load-testing Argo CD at scale with 1,000 vClusters, uncovering GitOps performance insights.
• Why Platform Engineering is Failing — The Case for Infrastructure First - A thoughtful industry perspective on why infra foundations matter more than ever.
• How AI Is Reshaping Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy — Saiyam Pathak on how AI-driven approaches are influencing multi-tenancy strategies in Kubernetes.

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Until next month,

– Team vCluster