Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Authors: Alona Paz, Kim Wuestkamp, Dinesh Majrekar, Ryan Hallisey, Peter Salanki

2023-04-20

Since joining the CNCF as a sandbox project in 2019, KubeVirt has steadily grown in size, features, and stability. But developing a project is different from how it is used. As we approach our milestone v1.0 release, we wanted to have an open discussion with our end users. In this panel discussion, we will hear from representatives for ARM, Civo, CoreWeave, Killercoda, and NVIDIA. This will be a free-flowing conversation but we expect attendees will learn about how these companies deploy KubeVirt, and any other CNCF projects, to cover their use cases and address their customers' needs, how they interact with and contribute back to the project, and how we can learn from and grow with each other.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Authors: Jianbo Sun, Jiahang Xu

2022-10-27

Kubavela is an extensible, add-on-based architecture platform for building cloud-native applications. It follows the OEM model and allows for concern separation, reducing complexity and providing transparent runtime.

• Kubavela is an add-on-based architecture platform for building cloud-native applications
• It follows the OEM model and allows for concern separation
• Kubavela provides transparent runtime and reduces complexity
• Kubavela is extensible and allows for the creation of add-ons
• Kubavela has built-in capabilities and add-ons, including observability and traffic control

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Authors: Alexander Wels, Michael Henriksen, Ryan Hallisey, Kat Morgan

2022-10-26

Download the code ahead of time. DCO Required.The KubeVirt Maintainers will organize into small groups to help improve scalability of KubeVirt components.This Contribfest session is designed to provide projects with the space and resources to tackle outstanding technical debt, security issues, or outstanding impactful feature requests. They are intended to provide a place for maintainers to meet contributors and potential contributors and work together on solving a problem.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Authors: Michael Henriksen

2022-10-26

KubeVirt makes it possible to run traditional Virtual Machine workloads in a Kubernetes cluster. Since VMs are typically stateful and not as homogeneous as containerized applications, additional care must be given to ensure that VM state is properly initialized, managed, and protected. We will explore how the KubeVirt storage layer bridges the gap between QEMU/KVM Virtual Machines and K8s storage primitives to provide a feature-rich API that manages data for the entire lifecycle of a VM. We will discuss how new VMs can be created with pre-populated disks based on “golden images” and how running Virtual Machines can be safely snapshotted/restored. Disaster Recovery workflows are enabled by the VirtualMachineExport API as well as integration with Velero. Future initiatives, such as Volume Populator support will also be discussed. You will come away with enough of a high level understanding of the KubeVirt storage APIs and architecture to make meaningful contributions.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

Authors: Alice Frosi

2022-05-18

Overview of recent developments in Kubernetes virtualization and plans for future improvements

• Kubernetes virtualization has made progress in areas such as security, multi-architecture support, and integration with other projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Future plans include focusing on confidential computing, separating VM options from workload definition, and improving resource hot-plugging for virtual machines
• A demo of the Kubernetes cluster provider is shown to illustrate how a cluster can be created on top of another Kubernetes cluster using Kubvirt