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ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryVirtualizing Kubernetes: Efficiency and Developer Experience with Lukas Gentele from Loft LabsIn this episode of the ShipTalk podcast, co-host Eric Minick talks with Lukas Gentele, co-founder and CEO of LoftLabs, about revolutionizing Kubernetes infrastructure through virtualization. Lukas shares his entrepreneurial journey starting from age 16 and explains how his company pivoted to create vcluster, a technology that virtualizes Kubernetes control planes similar to how VMs virtualize physical machines. They discuss the inefficiencies of running many small Kubernetes clusters versus optimizing resources with virtual clusters, the impact on developer workflows, and innovative approaches to CI/CD testing environments. Whether you're looking to optimize cloud costs or improve your development experience with Kubernetes...
2025-04-1637 min
Platform Engineering PodcastvCluster with Lukas Gentele: Rethinking Kubernetes Multi-TenancyAre your platform teams constantly saying "no" to requests for new Kubernetes clusters? The traditional approach to Kubernetes multi-tenancy forces organizations to choose between cluster sprawl or restrictive namespaces - neither of which fully meets the needs of modern development teams.Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs, shares how vCluster is transforming the way organizations handle multi-tenancy in Kubernetes. By running virtual Kubernetes control planes inside namespaces, vCluster enables teams to experiment with different versions, operators, and configurations while maintaining efficient resource usage.Key topics covered:How vCluster solves the limitations of...
2025-04-1640 min
Mastering Tech GrowthSupercharge Your Commercial Product By Doing Open Source the Right Way with Lukas GenteleFor today’s episode, Mike is joined by Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs, to discuss how to ensure that your open-source project doesn’t end up being one of the 80% that fail. Lukas has successfully launched multiple open-source projects and turned them into profitable businesses. Through this episode, he provides the bones of a framework you can use to do the same.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Open source needs to solve real problems, ones that people are willing to pay to have solved.
Your open-source product needs to solve problems, but not to the point where nothing is left to b...
2025-04-161h 02
Mastering Tech GrowthSupercharge Your Commercial Product By Doing Open Source the Right Way with Lukas GenteleFor today’s episode, Mike is joined by Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs, to discuss how to ensure that your open-source project doesn’t end up being one of the 80% that fail. Lukas has successfully launched multiple open-source projects and turned them into profitable businesses. Through this episode, he provides the bones of a framework you can use to do the same. KEY TAKEAWAYS Open source needs to solve real problems, ones that people are willing to pay to have solved. Your open-source product needs to solve problems, but not to the point wher...
2025-04-161h 02
Kubernetes for Humans#041 - Virtualizing Kubernetes with Lukas Gentele (Loft Labs)In this special KubeCon edition episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, Itiel meets with Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs. Discover why Lukas believes multi-tenancy is a major obstacle in Kubernetes adoption and how Loft Labs is tackling this challenge through innovative projects like vCluster, a "super famous project" for running virtual Kubernetes clusters.
Learn about the journey that led to vCluster's creation, stemming from the challenges of running a multi-tenant PaaS offering. Lukas also shares insights into the adoption of vCluster, including surprising stories of users running thousands of virtual clusters. The episode...
2025-04-1019 min
Ardan Labs PodcastLoftLabs, vCluster, and Kubernetes with Lukas GenteleIn this episode, Bill Kennedy interviews Lukas Gentele, CEO and co-founder of Loft Labs, discussing the innovative vCluster technology that virtualizes Kubernetes clusters, enhancing resource utilization and developer autonomy while addressing challenges in cloud environments. The conversation explores the balance between operational security and developer freedom, the introduction of vCluster snapshots for easier deployment, and Lukas's personal journey into technology.00:00 Introduction00:20 What is Luis Doing Today?05:36 Performance and Resource Management21:42 First Memories of a Computer32:00...
2025-03-261h 59
The Business of Open SourceHow a Rebrand Increased Sales with Lukas GenteleThis week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Lukas Gentele, the CEO and co-founder of LoftLabs. Here’s some of the things we covered: There are many open source projects at LoftLabs. We talked about what the team did differently the second time round, when they’d had the experience of creating the first project under their belt, and why they continued creating additional projects after that. How they make roadmap decisions to decide what goes in the OSS versus what goes in the enterprise editionHow they thought...
2025-03-2642 min
The Reasoning ShowVirtualizing Kubernetes ClustersWith Kubecon coming up next week, we speak to Lukas Gentele (@LukasGentele, Co-Founder/ CEO at Loft Labs (@loft_sh)), about virtualizing Kubernetes SHOW: 909SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #909 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW SPONSORS:Try Postman AI Agent Builder TodayCut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:
2025-03-2633 min
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersLukas Gentele on Kubernetes vClustersLukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of kubernetes vclusters (virtual clusters). A vcluster is a kubernetes cluster that runs kubernetes application on a host kubernetes cluster. The conversation covers: vcluster basics; sharing models; what is owned by the vcluster and what is shared with the host; attached nodes versus shared nodes; the primary use case: multi-tenancy vcluster per tenant; alternatives - namespace per tenant, full cluster per tenant; trade-offs - isolation; less resource use; spin up time; scalability; how many clusters and how many vclusters should an org have? Deployment models for...
2025-01-0258 minSoftware Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersLukas Gentele on Kubernetes vClustersLukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of kubernetes vclusters (virtual clusters). A vcluster is a kubernetes cluster that runs kubernetes application on a host kubernetes cluster. The conversation covers: vcluster basics; sharing models; what is owned by the vcluster and what is shared with the host; attached nodes versus shared nodes; the primary use case: multi-tenancy vcluster per tenant; alternatives - namespace per tenant, full cluster per tenant; trade-offs - isolation; less resource use; spin up time; scalability; how many clusters and how many vclusters should an org have? Deployment models for...
2025-01-0258 minSoftware Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersLukas Gentele on Kubernetes vClustersLukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of kubernetes vclusters (virtual clusters). A vcluster is a kubernetes cluster that runs kubernetes application on a host kubernetes cluster. The conversation covers: vcluster basics; sharing models; what is owned by the vcluster and what is shared with the host; attached nodes versus shared nodes; the primary use case: multi-tenancy vcluster per tenant; alternatives - namespace per tenant, full cluster per tenant; trade-offs - isolation; less resource use; spin up time; scalability; how many clusters and how many vclusters should an org have? Deployment models for...
2025-01-0258 min
Coffee and Open SourceLukas GenteleLukas Gentele is the co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs. Loft delivers Kubernetes-native tools, functionality and frameworks purpose-built for platform engineers to manage, activate and optimize their platform stack. Gentele is an experienced platform engineering innovator, committed to delivering solutions that empower platform teams to build seamlessly on Kubernetes. Prior to Loft, Gentele served as the co-founder and CEO at covexo GmbH and Webmans. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems, and a Master of Science, Computer Science & Management of Enterprise Information Systems, both from the University of Mannheim.
You can find Lukas on...
2024-09-101h 08
Open Source Startup PodcastE146: Inventing Virtual Kubernetes ClustersLukas Gentele is Co-Founder & CEO of Loft, the platform engineering company behind "kubernetes virtualization" to reduce costs and create efficiencies for teams with high (and growing) kubernetes usage. They allow any organization to scale self-service access to Kubernetes from 10 to 10,000 engineers.
Loft recently raised $24M led by Khosla Ventures and previously raised from investors including Fusion Fund.
In this episode, we dig into the company's journey through a shift from being a PaaS (devpod) to virtualization of kubernetes (vcluster), the rapid feedback loop you get from having an open source-based company, why Lukas thinks open...
2024-08-2237 min
The New Stack PodcastKubernetes Gets Back to Scaling with Virtual ClustersA virtual cluster, described by Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele at Kubecon+ CloudNativeCon Paris, is a Kubernetes control plane running inside a container within another Kubernetes cluster. In this New Stack Makers episode, Gentele explained that this approach eliminates the need for numerous separate control planes, allowing VMs to run in lightweight, quickly deployable containers. Loft Labs' open-sourced vcluster technology enables virtual clusters to spin up in about six seconds, significantly faster than traditional Kubernetes clusters that can take over 30 minutes to start in services like Amazon EKS or Google GKE.The integration of vCluster into Rancher...
2024-04-2523 min
The Kubelist PodcastEp. #41, vCluster with Lukas Gentele of Loft LabsIn episode 41 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Lukas Gentele of Loft Labs about vCluster. Together they dive deep on how vCluster works and some of the new use cases that the project enables when running on larger, more mature enterprises. This technical discussion explores the problems Lucas and his team set out to solve when they created vCluster.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-04-241h 06
Heavybit PodcastsEp. #41, vCluster with Lukas Gentele of Loft LabsIn episode 41 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Lukas Gentele of Loft Labs about vCluster. Together they dive deep on how vCluster works and some of the new use cases that the project enables when running on larger, more mature enterprises. This technical discussion explores the problems Lucas and his team set out to solve when they created vCluster.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2024-04-241h 06
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedThe Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #41, vCluster with Lukas Gentele of Loft LabsIn episode 41 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Lukas Gentele of Loft Labs about vCluster. Together they dive deep on how vCluster works and some of the new use cases that the project enables when running on larger, more mature enterprises. This technical discussion explores the problems Lucas and his team set out to solve when they created vCluster.
2024-04-221h 06
Kubernetes BytesRunning multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using vClusterIn this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Lukas Gentele, Co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs to talk about the vCluster project. They discuss how vCluster helps organizations run multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, where each tenant gets access to a CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster, while still being able to deploy everything they need to build and run their applications on Kubernetes. The discussion goes into topics like how Security, Storage, CICD and GitOps work for virtual clusters running on the host clusters. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Elotl h...
2024-01-2557 min
DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and ToolingDevPod for Dev ContainersBret is joined by Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs from Loft Labs to look at a new project called DevPod, that supports dev containers and VMs. It works with local Docker instances and AWS, GCP, Azure, and several other cloud providers. The project is compatible with Microsoft's DevContainer standard, which means it works with the VC Code standalone app and VS Code in the browser.Lukas and Rich were on this show last year, showing off vcluster, which allows you to run a full Kubernetes cluster inside an existing Kubernetes namespace. In this episode, we announce the...
2023-05-261h 01
BUILDERSLukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs: $5 Million Raised to Build the Virtual Kubernetes CategoryIn today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Lukas Gentele, CEO of Loft Labs, a kubernetes management platform that’s raised over $5 Million in funding, about why the way we develop software on the most popular platform out there needs a revamp, and exactly how Loft Labs can promise some truly attention-grabbing ROI by streamlining everything about the kubernetes cluster environment. By spinning up and tearing down developer environments in mere minutes, instead of the hours that most of us have become used to over the years, Loft Labs are creating a unique sub-category in the saturated software de...
2023-03-2431 min
Kube CuddleLukas GenteleShow notes:Thanks for all of the support that the podcast is getting on Patreon. If you’d like to help keep the podcast sustainable for only $2 a month, you can get more info here.Lukas’s TwitterRich's TwitterPodcast TwitterLinks:MesosphereFabian KrammKubernetes on Mesos tutorial (don’t try this at home)DevSpaceSkaffold / DraftStream with Bret Fisher (so sorry I got...
2022-07-191h 08DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and ToolingKubernetes VCluster for "Clusters in Namespaces"🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation. I'm thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretfisher.com/waitlist🍾Bret is joined by Lukas Gentele and Rich Burroughs of Loft Labs to talk about vcluster, a Kubernetes distribution that can run inside an existing cluster namespace, aka "clusters in clusters." Lukas is the CEO of Loft Labs and Rich is the...
2022-04-221h 05
Cloud Engineering Archives - Software Engineering DailyLoft Kubernetes Namespaces with Lukas GenteleLoft is a platform for Kubernetes self-service and multi-tenancy. Loft allows you to control Kubernetes clusters with added multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities to get more value out of Kubernetes beyond simply cluster management. It allows for cost optimization, more efficient provisioning, and other features.
Lukas Gentele joins the show to talk about Kubernetes multi-tenancy and the engineering behind Loft.
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2022-04-2145 min
Software Engineering DailyLoft Kubernetes Namespaces with Lukas GenteleLoft is a platform for Kubernetes self-service and multi-tenancy. Loft allows you to control Kubernetes clusters with added multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities to get more value out of Kubernetes beyond simply cluster management. It allows for cost optimization, more efficient provisioning, and other features.Lukas Gentele joins the show to talk about Kubernetes multi-tenancy and the engineering behind Loft.Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.comInflux Data: . To learn more and get started for free, visit https://influxdata.com/sedailyNetapp: Check them out at https://s...
2022-04-2150 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleeBPF and Falco, with Leonardo Di DonatoWe dive into the Linux kernel this week with guest Leonardo Di Donato, Open Source engineer at Sysdig. Leonardo works full-time on the Falco project, a runtime security engine that listens to the Linux kernel using eBPF - the extended Berkeley Packet Filter. Leonardo tells the hosts about the architecture of eBPF, how he has used it before and now, and what's coming up for Falco. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week University Challenge: can you guess...
2020-02-1836 min