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There's something new on the Ranch

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...

Back it up and put it to sleep

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...

When you create a vCluster, it needs a backing store. By default, it will be created with SQLite, but there are other options, such as etcd, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Let's take a look at one of the new features that launched with vCluster Platform 4.1 - External Database Connector....

Where we’re going, we don’t need roads, but maybe bring some Kubernetes clusters.

Introducing vCluster Cloud - beta We recently launched a new version of vCluster Platform, which is installed on a Kubernetes cluster that you own. Until now, that would be in the cloud, on-prem, or a control plane cluster that could be running other services. What if we made it ...

Virtual Machines in Virtual Clusters

I’ve been wanting to talk about how to use KubeVirt with vCluster for a while now, and with this new release support has been added. It’s time to dust off some of your cloud-init skills and get back to deploying virtual machines, Kubernetes edition. Requirements There are a coupl...

Now that vCluster Platform v4.0 is out let’s look at what you can do with this new version.

UI Revamp Wait, vCluster has a UI? It does, and it’s called vCluster Platform. There is a free 14-day trial to dig into the features, try out the UI, and make a pretty sweet POC with self-service. If you are looking for a demo to see what you can do with it, you can join our week...