VMware Kubernetes Service

vCluster is a Kubernetes tenant-cluster platform developed by Loft. It creates isolated virtual Kubernetes environments on top of an existing control-plane cluster or on dedicated infrastructure and bare metal; each tenant cluster has its own API server, custom resource definitions, and role-based access control, providing a cluster experience intended to resemble dedicated Kubernetes. vCluster can be installed and operated through its CLI and kubectl, and also supports running locally through its Docker driver. The project is a CNCF Certified Kubernetes distribution and is positioned for multi-tenancy, managed Kubernetes, and AI infrastructure workloads.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It manages containerized applications across multiple hosts, providing mechanisms for deploying, maintaining, scaling, and scheduling workloads. Applications can be configured with YAML and deployed across hybrid-cloud environments; the platform is also used for production operations involving storage, databases, networking, and security hardening.

Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for running Kubernetes clusters and workloads on AWS infrastructure. It provides managed control planes and integrates with AWS services and Kubernetes tooling.

ZSvirt is an open-source virtualization and IaaS platform backed by ZStack. Its management plane coordinates KVM-based hosts, clusters, virtual machines, images, networks, storage, volumes, snapshots, permissions, events, alarms, auditing, and lifecycle operations. Environments can be managed through a web interface, RESTful API, Terraform and Go/Python/Java SDKs, or a CLI. The platform uses asynchronous, stateless services, plugin-based extensibility, a workflow engine with rollback and recovery, resource tagging and queries, and automated deployment tooling. It also includes VMware migration features such as online migration, OVF import, and VMDK upload, and can be run from a qcow2 or OVA management-node image on VMware, VirtualBox, KVM, or a cloud host.

Kata Containers is an open-source container runtime and project that runs workloads inside lightweight virtual machines, combining a container-like interface with the workload isolation and security properties of virtual machines. Its core runtime integrates with container managers through a containerd shim v2 implementation; an agent inside each virtual machine or pod sets up the container environment, while a hypervisor provides the virtualized boundary. The project supports multiple virtualization technologies and architectures, uses a configuration file covering the runtime, agent, and hypervisor, and includes a host-capability check through the `kata-runtime check` command. The code is licensed under Apache 2.0.