vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.
Learn more on www.vcluster.com.
Learn more in the documentation.
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To learn more about vcluster, open the full getting started guide.
VCluster has a hard dependency on helm
, if it is not installed on your machine, you can install it beforehand or let vCluster install it for you.
Use one of the following commands to download the vcluster CLI binary from GitHub:
curl -L -o vcluster "https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/releases/latest/download/vcluster-darwin-amd64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 vcluster /usr/local/bin
curl -L -o vcluster "https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/releases/latest/download/vcluster-darwin-arm64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 vcluster /usr/local/bin
curl -L -o vcluster "https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/releases/latest/download/vcluster-linux-amd64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 vcluster /usr/local/bin
curl -L -o vcluster "https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/releases/latest/download/vcluster-linux-arm64" && sudo install -c -m 0755 vcluster /usr/local/bin
md -Force "$Env:APPDATA\vcluster"; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Tls,Tls11,Tls12';
Invoke-WebRequest -URI "https://github.com/loft-sh/vcluster/releases/latest/download/vcluster-windows-amd64.exe" -o $Env:APPDATA\vcluster\vcluster.exe;
$env:Path += ";" + $Env:APPDATA + "\vcluster";
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User);
If you get the error that Windows cannot find vcluster after installing it, you will need to restart your computer, so that the changes to the
PATH
variable will be applied.
Alternatively, you can download the binary for your platform from the GitHub Releases page and add this binary to your PATH.
vcluster create my-vcluster
# OR: Use --expose to create a vcluster with an externally accessible LoadBalancer
vcluster create my-vcluster --expose
# OR: Use --isolate to create an isolated environment for the vcluster workloads
vcluster create my-vcluster --isolate
Take a look at the vcluster docs to see how to deploy a vcluster using Helm or Kubectl instead.
Run in a terminal:
# Run any kubectl, helm, etc. command in your vcluster
kubectl get namespace
kubectl get pods -n kube-system
kubectl create namespace demo-nginx
kubectl create deployment nginx-deployment -n demo-nginx --image=nginx
kubectl get pods -n demo-nginx
vcluster delete my-vcluster
Alternatively, you could also delete the host-namespace using kubectl.
Thank you for your interest in contributing! Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance.
This project is open-source and licensed under Apache 2.0, so you can use it in any private or commercial projects.