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KubeVirt

Managing virtualization workloads on Kubernetes

KubeVirt - Building a virtualization API for Kubernetes

Why KubeVirt?

KubeVirt technology addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both Application Containers as well as Virtual Machines in a common, shared environment.

Benefits are broad and significant. Teams with a reliance on existing virtual machine-based workloads are empowered to rapidly containerize applications. With virtualized workloads placed directly in development workflows, teams can decompose them over time while still leveraging remaining virtualized components as is comfortably desired.

What can I do with KubeVirt?

  • KubeVirt and Kubernetes - Leverage KubeVirt and Kubernetes to manage virtual machines for impractical-to-containerize apps.
  • KubeVirt and VMs - Combine existing virtualized workloads with new container workloads on the one platform.
  • Containerized Applications - Support development of new microservice applications in containers that interact with existing virtualized applications.

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  1. kubevirt Public

    Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

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  2. user-guide Public

    This user guide will walk you through installation and various features.

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  3. community Public

    Community content

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  4. api-reference Public

    API documentation

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  5. project-infra Public

    Project infrastructure administrative tools

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Repositories

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  • kubevirtci Public

    Contains cluster definitions and client tools to quickly spin up and destroy ephemeral and scalable k8s and ocp clusters for testing

    Shell 85 Apache-2.0 123 16 (4 issues need help) 14 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • project-infra Public

    Project infrastructure administrative tools

    Go 27 Apache-2.0 141 29 (8 issues need help) 14 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • ci-health Public

    Metrics about CI performance in repositories using Prow

    Go 6 Apache-2.0 7 1 0 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • common-templates Public

    Templates for running VMs on KubeVirt

    Shell 86 Apache-2.0 66 2 1 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • vm-console-proxy Public

    Proxy for VM console connection.

    Go 9 Apache-2.0 10 4 7 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • ssp-operator Public

    Operator that deploys additional KubeVirt resources

    Go 33 Apache-2.0 47 8 8 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • containerdisks Public

    Officially built and maintained containerdisks of the KubeVirt project

    Go 33 Apache-2.0 26 5 2 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • kubevirt-velero-plugin Public

    Plugin to Velero which automates backing up and restoring KubeVirt/CDI objects

    Go 33 Apache-2.0 34 2 10 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • sig-release Public

    A repo to hold and organize all the information required for KubeVirt releases

    1 Apache-2.0 9 4 2 Updated Mar 24, 2025
  • kubevirt Public

    Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.

    Go 5,929 Apache-2.0 1,393 256 215 Updated Mar 24, 2025