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🚀 vCluster v0.30 + Platform v4.5 are live! Introducing vCluster VPN for secure, Tailscale-powered networking and hybrid cloud bursting. Also: Netris integration for private data centers, Volume Snapshots for backups, and UI Kubectl Shell updates. 🔗 www.vcluster.com/changelog

Happening now at Booth #520. @saiyampathak.com on cost-effective AI with Ollama, GKE GPU Sharing, and vCluster. Voyager keyboard raffle right after. Last raffle of the week. Come join us at the booth. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Last day at #KubeCon EU. We have two more demos and the final raffle of the week at Booth #520. Come by if you're around. #CloudNativeCon

Happening now at Booth #520. Piotr Zaniewski showing Kubernetes Without Kubernetes. Local dev with vind, not KinD. 🎁 We're giving away a AirPods Pro 3 right after the demo. Come meet us at the booth. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Mauricio Salatino, author of Platform Engineering on Kubernetes, is at Booth #520 right now signing copies. Come grab a signed copy while they last. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Day 1 was incredible. Day 2 at #KubeCon EU starts now. Demos, raffles, book signing, and at 2:15 PM, @saiyampathak.com is on the KubeCon main stage for the TAG Operational Resilience session. We have a packed day at Booth #520. If you're at KubeCon, come find us.

Book signing happening now at Booth 520. Artem Lajko is signing copies of "Implementing Gitops with Kubernetes". Come grab a signed copy while they last. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #Kubernetes

Live now at Booth #520, third demo of the day. Piotr Zaniewski on flexible multi-tenancy with vCluster, from shared to fully private nodes. 🎁 And we're giving away a North Face jacket right after the demo. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #Kubernetes #MultiTenancy

Josef Mende showing how to provision and manage bare-metal infra with the vCluster Platform. From GPU racks to a fully operational k8s platform without the DIY overhead. And we're giving away a Divoom Pixel Display Backpack right after the demo. Come join us at our booth #520.

First demo of the day at Booth #520. @saiyampathak.com showing how GPU scheduling actually works with KAI Scheduler and vCluster. And yes, we're giving away AirPods Pro 3 right after the demo. Come join us at our booth. #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

Day 1 at #KubeCon EU starts now. Demos, book signings, raffles, and a fireside chat with NVIDIA and JPMC in the evening. We have a packed day at Booth #520. If you're at KubeCon, come find us. #CouldNativeCon

Day 0 at #KubeCon EU wrapped. Great energy on stage and at the booth. Thank you to everyone who stopped by today. Tomorrow we're going bigger. Demos all day, book signings, daily raffles, and a fireside chat with NVIDIA and JPMC in the evening. See you at Booth #520.

Thank you to everyone who joined the Kubernetes Platform Blueprint workshop at #KubeCon EU today. Great session, even better conversations. If you missed it or want to continue the conversation, find us at Booth #520 all week. #PlatEngDay #CloudNativeCon

Second session of the day at #KubeCon EU. @hrittikhere.bsky.social and Kunal Das as from CastAI on automating FinOps through Argo Workflows. Teams reduced waste by 45% with these patterns. 1:35 PM CET, G102-103. #CloudNativeCon

We're at #KubeCon EU and kicking off Day 1 with a sponsored keynote at Platform Engineering Day. @saiyampathak.com on bridging the local Kubernetes gap for AI developers with vind. 10:03 AM CET, Hall 8 Room F. #PlatEngDay #CloudNativeCon

Day 1 at #KubeCon EU. We're in Amsterdam and here's what we have lined up for today. Find us at Booth #520. 🧵

- Saiyam Pathak delivering a keynote at #PlatEngDay on Bridging the Local Kubernetes Gap for AI Developers (10:03 AM, Hall 8 Room F) - Hrittik Roy and Kunal Das from Cast AI presenting GitOps Your Costs: Automated FinOps Through Argo Workflows (1:35 PM, G102-103)

That's a wrap on #NVIDIAGTC. Packed booth, great conversations, and a big week: - Announced vMetal - Partnership with Polarise for sovereign AI in Europe - On stage with NVIDIA and Netris on multi-tenant GPU clusters Next stop - KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam. #GTC2026 #KubeCon

Great week at #NVIDIAGTC and we're not done yet. 🎤 Lukas Gentele joins NVIDIA and Netris on stage to talk building multi-tenant GPU clusters at 3 PM PT 🎁 Raffles, demos, and giveaways running all day at our booth. Stop by Booth #206 if you're at the show.

At #NVIDIAGTC, we're partnering with Polarise to bring sovereign AI compute to mid-market European enterprises, delivering a managed K8s platform on par with large hyperscalers. 👇️ www.vcluster.com/blog/polaris...

At GTC this week? Swing by booth #206 to chat about what we're building together.

Great conversations at NVIDIA GTC so far. Lot of interest around building AI factories on Kubernetes, and we've been getting a ton of questions about vMetal and how vCluster fits into the stack. We're at Booth #206, we'd love to chat about what you're building. #NVIDIAGTC

GPU infrastructure needs better Kubernetes tooling. The crowd at Booth #206 proves it. Some building multi-tenant GPU clouds, others just discovering what vCluster can do. All working on production-ready AI infrastructure. If you're around, come say hi 👋 at Booth. #NVIDIAGTC

vCluster is part of NVIDIA's DSX AI Factory Platform. We're at Booth #206 at #NVIDIAGTC this week. Stop by to talk multi-tenant GPU clusters and AI infrastructure.

Day 2 at #NVIDIAGTC and the booth has been buzzing. Great conversations with teams building GPU platforms, neoclouds, and AI infra on Kubernetes. And we're announcing something new today, more on that soon. We're at Booth #206. Come by to see it in action and grab some swag.

We're writing a 7 day blog series on vind, the open source KinD replacement for local Kubernetes. Day 4 is one you don't want to miss. 🧵

@saiyampathak.com shows how to add a real GCP Compute Engine instance as a worker node to your local vind cluster over encrypted VPN. Your machine handles the control plane and the cloud VM runs your pods.

(3/3) So far we've covered built-in LoadBalancer (Day 1), multi-node clusters with real node drains (Day 3), and now hybrid local + cloud clusters. Follow along for Days 5-7. Read Day 4: www.vcluster.com/blog/vind-ex... #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering #KinD #Docker

vcluster.comExternal Nodes: Joining a GCP Instance to Your Local vind ClusterAdd a real GCP Compute Engine instance as a worker node to your local vind cluster over encrypted VPN. Test GPU workloads, cross-architecture scheduling, and hybrid setups from your laptop. Day 4 of t...

We're at #NVIDIAGTC this week with so many exciting things lined up, live demos, giveaways, and a big product announcement. Meet us at Booth 206.

NVIDIA GTC starts tomorrow. Stop by Booth #206 for live demos, raffles, and giveaways. 🗓️ March 16-19 | San Jose, CA 🔗 vcluster.com/events/nvidi... #NVIDIAGTC

Single-node clusters can't test real scheduling, drains, or affinity. #vind gives you a 4-node cluster in Docker with a 4-line YAML. We're releasing 7 blogs covering everything vind can do by @saiyampathak.com . Read Day 3: vcluster.com/blog/vind-multinode-kubernetes-cluster-scheduling-node-drain

vcluster.comMulti-Node Local Kubernetes with vind: Pod Scheduling, Node Drains, and Affinity RulesCreate a 4-node local Kubernetes cluster with vind and test real pod scheduling, node drains, node affinity, and topology spread constraints, all running in Docker. Day 3 of the 7 Days of vind series.

LoadBalancer services in #KinD? <pending> forever. In vind, you get a real external IP out of the box. No MetalLB, no workarounds. We're releasing 7 blogs in 7 days covering everything vind can do by @saiyampathak.com Read Day 2: www.vcluster.com/blog/vind-ge... #PlatformEngineering #vind

vcluster.comGetting Started with vind: First Kubernetes Deployment with Built-in LoadBalancerDeploy your first app on vind (vCluster in Docker) with built-in LoadBalancer support — no MetalLB needed. Step-by-step guide with real commands and outputs. Day 2 of the 7 Days of vind series.

New on the Google Cloud blog by @saiyampathak.com and Abdel How to deploy isolated Ollama instances for multiple teams on GKE Autopilot, sharing the same L4 GPU using GPU time-sharing and vCluster. Full walkthrough 👇 cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... #GKE #Ollama #vCluster

cloud.google.comCost-Effective AI with Ollama, GKE GPU Sharing, and vCluster | Google Cloud Blog

#KinD works, until you need LoadBalancer, sleep/wake, a UI, or external nodes. vind(vCluster in Docker) has all of it built in. We're dropping 7 blogs in 7 days covering everything vind can do by @saiyampathak.com . Read Day 1: www.vcluster.com/blog/introdu... #Kubernetes #docker

vcluster.comvind: Why I Replaced KinD with vCluster in Dockervind (vCluster in Docker) replaces KinD with built-in LoadBalancer support, sleep/wake, external cloud nodes, and a free platform UI. Same Docker driver, zero limitations.

In last week's livestream, we covered when to share GPUs vs. isolate them last week. This week we're live building it: Run:ai + vCluster on AWS. Real isolation per team without fragmenting your GPU infrastructure. Register here: www.vcluster.com/multitenancy... #GPU #Kubernetes

vCluster + @netris-io.bsky.social are hosting an executive rooftop networking event on Tuesday, March 17. No presentations. No pitches. Just great food, drinks, and conversation with AI and cloud infrastructure leaders. RSVP: luma.com/yq98vkek #NVIDIAGTC

luma.comExclusive Networking Event hosted by vCluster + Netris · LumaYou’re invited! Join Netris and vCluster for a private executive networking event! We’ve reserved a rooftop bar exclusively for a curated group of cloud, AI,…

Share GPUs across teams or isolate them? Wrong answer = wasted hardware or frustrated engineers. We're breaking down the decision framework live on March 5. Register now: vcluster.com/multitenancy... #AI #GPU #Kubernetes

At KubeCon EU, JPMC, NVIDIA, and vCluster Labs take the stage to discuss running Kubernetes at enterprise and AI scale. Spots are limited. Register now: luma.com/28cq1bmb #KubeConEU #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering

luma.comRunning Kubernetes at Enterprise Scale in the Age of AI · LumaIn the age of AI, infra is evolving even faster than before and expectations toward platform owners are rising. Workloads are more dynamic, compute is less…

Flat pod networks break multi-tenancy. Shubham Katara shows how to combine vCluster + Cilium Multi-Pool IPAM for namespace-scoped PodCIDRs. Clean firewall rules, zero IP waste. Read here: medium.com/@shubham.kat... #PlatformEngineering #Cilium #Networking #DevOps

medium.comMultiple PodCIDR Pools with Cilium and vClusterSolve Multi-tenancy better — vCluster

Don't miss this session at NVIDIA GTC 2026, Lukas Gentele joins experts from NVIDIA and Netris to break down production-ready, multi-tenant GPU infrastructure for AI workloads. 📅 March 19 | 3:00 p.m. PST Session details: www.vcluster.com/events/nvidi... #NVIDIAGTC

KinD clusters rarely survive longer than a demo. Every setup change means rebuilding from scratch. No real LoadBalancer. No collaboration. It's local by design, and that's the problem. #Kubernetes #DevOps #vCluster

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Need more nodes? Attach an external VM over Tailscale VPN with one curl command. Node-to-node communication is handled automatically. The pod actually ran on the external node, LoadBalancer routed traffic through it correctly.

When you're ready for production, move your vcluster.yaml config into Helm values and deploy on a real Kubernetes cluster. Same vCluster. Different runtime. Full walkthrough by @artemlajko.bsky.social : medium.com/@artem_lajko...

medium.comvCluster in Docker has changed the way we build and share local Kubernetes Developer EnvironmentsStop using Kubernetes in Docker (Kind) as your default local development and demo environment. There is a better way.

KinD clusters rarely survive longer than a demo. Every setup change means rebuilding from scratch. No real LoadBalancer. No collaboration. It's local by design, and that's the problem. #Kubernetes #DevOps #vCluster

vCluster in Docker (vind) changes this. Three commands. Less than three minutes. No homelab. No cloud costs. A real Kubernetes control plane running inside Docker.

What you get out of the box: built-in LoadBalancer without MetalLB. Pause and resume clusters. Secure sharing, invite a teammate into your running local cluster via kubeconfig or the vCluster Platform. They connect. They debug. On your actual environment.

🚀 Platform v4.7 and vCluster v0.32 are live! Focused on resilience and day-2 ops. Debug Shell for embedded etcd troubleshooting, Virtual Cluster Status Page, expanded Postgres/MySQL backing store, and K8s v1.35 support. Full release notes: vcluster.com/changelog

Heading to NVIDIA GTC 2026! vCluster is a Silver Sponsor. If you're attending, come say hi at Booth #206. 📅 March 16-19 | 📍 San Jose, CA More details: www.vcluster.com/events/nvidi... #NVIDIAGTC #GTC2026 #Kubernetes

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AI infrastructure: all on-prem vs all cloud is a false binary. Winning pattern: intelligent placement Sensitive jobs → private GPU Elastic workloads → cloud Factors: data sensitivity, size, latency, compliance 👉️ Read here: www.vcluster.com/blog/pragmat... #GPU #Kubernetes #MLOps

vcluster.comPragmatic Hybrid AI: GPU Bursting Without Leaking Data or DollarsStop choosing between on-prem GPUs or cloud-only AI. Master intelligent workload placement that keeps sensitive data local while bursting elastic jobs to public cloud with network isolation and cost-a...

We benchmarked vind vs kind. vind creates clusters 2-3x faster (8-12s vs 25-30s for single node), loads images instantly (vs 5-15s per image), and uses half the resources. Here's what we found 👇️

Why it's faster: ✅️ One Docker container per node instead of nested containerd. ✅️ Images proxied from local Docker daemon. If those extra seconds are breaking your flow, give vind a try: github.com/loft-sh/vind #Kubernetes #Docker #OpenSource #DevTools #CloudNative

github.comGitHub - loft-sh/vind: vCluster in Docker (vind) is KinD (Kubernetes in Docker) alternative with additional features. For source code, see loft-sh/vcluster repo linked below.vCluster in Docker (vind) is KinD (Kubernetes in Docker) alternative with additional features. For source code, see loft-sh/vcluster repo linked below. - loft-sh/vind

Join us this Thursday for a live demo: Automating GPU clusters with Auto Nodes + vCluster Platform Free Tier. This is hands-on. Bring questions, watch the demo live, or share what you've already built. Register here: www.linkedin.com/events/74256... #GPU #Kubernetes #MLOps