Accelerate your CI workflows with vCluster—create lightweight, on-demand Kubernetes clusters for faster testing and development, reducing build times and overhead while supporting CRDs for production-like environments.

Continuous Integration (CI) workflows often encounter bottlenecks when testing Kubernetes applications. Traditional methods of building and tearing down full clusters, whether locally or in the cloud, can be both time-consuming and resource-intensive. vCluster, an open-source virtual cluster solution, offers a game-changing alternative by enabling lightweight Kubernetes clusters to be created on demand and quickly This talk will guide you through integrating vCluster into your CI pipelines and the benefits you get from it. Virtual Cluster enables rapid application testing in production-like environments, including support for custom resource definitions (CRDs) without the overhead of traditional cluster setups. By the end of this session, you'll be equipped to reduce build times, accelerate testing cycles, and enhance the overall developer experience, as your clusters will take less time to build and you will have more time to test.

Hrittik is currently Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, who has previously worked at various startups helping them scale their content efforts. He loves diving deep into distributed systems and creating articles on them and has spoken at conferences such as Open Source Summit Vienna, SREDays London, Azure Cloud Summit, UbuCon Asia and Kubernetes Community Days - Lagos and Chennai among others! His best days are when he finds ways to create impact in the communities he’s a part of either by code, content, or mentorship!