Maintaining development environments for teams writing apps that run in Kubernetes clusters can be very challenging.

Using tools like Docker Compose or even local Kubernetes clusters can leave developers with environments that differ from production environments in unexpected ways. Remote Kubernetes clusters can be configured to look more like production, but interacting with them can be difficult without enough K8s experience, and developers depend on platform teams to operate, manage, and troubleshoot their environments on a daily basis.

Loft’s virtual Kubernetes clusters allow platform teams to give developers fast, ephemeral environments that provision in just a few seconds. And Komodor completes the picture by enabling developers to independently understand and control the full lifecycle of their environments without bottlenecking the platform/DevOps teams.

In this session, you’ll learn:

• What Loft’s virtual Kubernetes clusters are and how to use them
• How Komodor empowers developers to be independent and self-reliant when interacting with Kubernetes
• How to automatically create a self-serve platform to provision and access environments easily

By providing self-service Kubernetes environments for their developers, platform teams can enable developer velocity and happiness.