Space Templates

Space Templates can be used to create different space profiles or set default options for space creation in connected clusters.

Workflows

Create a Space Template

UI

Navigate to Spaces > Space Templates. Click on the 'Add Space Template' button.

Add a new space template

In the view you can modify the following sections:

• Configuration: the default space metadata, automatic sleep and deletion time that should be used to create a new space. In addition, you can define apps here that should get deployed into the space on creation.
• Access To Space Template: additional users and teams that should be able to access this space template in addition to all existing RBAC rules

kubectl

Create a space-template.yaml in the following form:

apiVersion: storage.loft.sh/v1
kind: SpaceTemplate
metadata:
  name: my-space-template
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        sleepmode.loft.sh/sleep-after: '600'
    apps:
      - name: my-app
  access: []

Then apply the space template to the cluster where Loft was installed with:

kubectl apply -f space-template.yaml

Use a Space Template

You can create a space from a template either through the Loft UI or the CLI.

UI

Navigate to spaces and click on the 'Create Space' button. In the drawer you can select a space template or based on the cluster default a template will be preselected automatically.

Select a space template

Afterwards you can still change the desired space configuration and press 'Create' to create the space.

CLI

You can use the flag --template to select a space template to apply. For example, if you want to create a new space with the template my-space-template the command would look like this:

loft create space my-space --template my-space-template

Based on the target cluster configuration it might be possible that a template will be applied even though no --template is supplied.

Set Default Space Template

Navigate to the Clusters view and click on 'Edit'. Select a space template that should be used as default template for creating new spaces in that specific connected cluster. Then press update to apply the changes.

Set a default space template

Delete Space Templates

You can either delete a space template through the Loft UI or use kubectl. Deleting a space template will not delete any spaces that were created by this template.

UI

Navigate to Spaces > Space Templates. Then click on the 'Delete' button.

kubectl

Delete the space template my-space-template by running the following command in the cluster where Loft is installed in:

kubectl delete spacetemplates my-space-template