# vCluster Labs

> vCluster Labs makes tenant clusters: separate Kubernetes control planes that can share underlying infrastructure, or attach to dedicated hardware when stronger isolation is required. Born from a failed platform-as-a-service experiment, its open-source vCluster project became the center of an enterprise platform spanning cluster orchestration, node isolation and bare-metal GPU operations. The company sells free and custom enterprise editions to platform teams, AI cloud operators and large organizations that want self-service clusters without multiplying the cost and operational burden of physical clusters.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Lukas Gentele (Co-founder and CEO), Fabian Kramm (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** vCluster, vCluster Platform, vNode, vMetal, DevPod
- **Notable:** Launched vCluster as open source in April 2021 and became the first certified Kubernetes distribution for virtual Kubernetes clusters that year., Reported more than 40 million tenant clusters created, 30,000-plus GitHub stars across its projects and over 5,000 Slack members by 2026., Raised a $24 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures in 2024 after reporting 4.6x recurring-revenue growth and doubled headcount over the prior year.

## Products & services

- **vCluster** — Open-source, CNCF-conformant tenant-cluster technology that runs separate Kubernetes control planes on shared or dedicated infrastructure.
- **vCluster Platform** — Commercial management plane for self-service tenant clusters, policies, access, cost controls, lifecycle automation and enterprise support; available self-hosted or with a hosted control plane.
- **vNode** — A container runtime for stronger workload isolation on shared nodes using Linux user namespaces, seccomp and related kernel controls.
- **vMetal** — Bare-metal discovery, provisioning and lifecycle management for GPU servers and AI infrastructure, integrated into vCluster Platform.
- **DevPod** — An open-source client for reproducible developer environments on local machines or cloud infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Launched vCluster as open source in April 2021 and became the first certified Kubernetes distribution for virtual Kubernetes clusters that year.
- Reported more than 40 million tenant clusters created, 30,000-plus GitHub stars across its projects and over 5,000 Slack members by 2026.
- Raised a $24 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures in 2024 after reporting 4.6x recurring-revenue growth and doubled headcount over the prior year.
- Atlan reported consolidating roughly 100 EKS clusters into a single-host architecture and reducing Kubernetes spend by $600,000.
- A Fortune 500 insurer reported 65% to 75% lower Kubernetes cost in a proof of concept using sleep mode across pre-production environments.
- Expanded from control-plane virtualization into private nodes, kernel-level workload isolation and bare-metal GPU lifecycle management.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published new hands-on work on NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine, tenant-cluster security and running optimized models on DGX Spark.
- **2026-07** — The public vCluster repository was preparing the v0.37 line, including node-profile configuration and snapshot safeguards.
- **2026-03** — Introduced vMetal for bare-metal GPU server provisioning and lifecycle management.
- **2026-03** — Partnered with QumulusAI on isolated managed Kubernetes environments and a joint AI infrastructure lab.
- **2025-08** — Renamed Loft Labs to vCluster Labs to align the company brand with its flagship open-source project.

## Links

- Website: https://www.vcluster.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vcluster/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/vcluster
- GitHub: https://github.com/loft-sh
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBEGBOgmZlyoIQ52oTvuFhg

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Last updated: 2026-09-26