KubeVirt - the first look

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Karim Boumedhel wrote interesting article introducing Kubernetes virtualization API (KubeVirt) - an API and runtime add-on for Kubernetes in order to define and manage virtual machines.

The high-level goal of the project is to build a Kubernetes add-on to enable management of (libvirt) virtual machines. With KubeVirt, you will basically declare your virtual machines (called VMs from now on) like you declare pods.

Author then desribes basics of:

  • KubeVirt addon installation
  • How to check that KubeVirt is up
  • Quick review of the components
  • How to use KubeVirt
  • How to access virtual machines
  • How to migrate virtual machines

and more. If you need VMs, KubeVirt provides a nice way to make use of your k8s/OpenShift cluster to host them. This project is still young, and things like storage and networking need working, but development is going fast and the community is growing!

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