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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 kubevirt Public

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

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  2. user-guide user-guide Public

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

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  3. community community Public

    Community content

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  4. api-reference api-reference Public

    API documentation

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  5. project-infra project-infra Public

    Project infrastructure administrative tools

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  • ci-health Public

    Metrics about CI performance in repositories using Prow

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    Go 6 Apache-2.0 7 1 0 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • kubevirt Public

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

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    Go 5,955 Apache-2.0 1,403 259 219 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • kubevirt-velero-plugin Public

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

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    Go 33 Apache-2.0 35 3 12 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • kubevirtci Public

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

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    Shell 85 Apache-2.0 124 16 (4 issues need help) 17 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • project-infra Public

    Project infrastructure administrative tools

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    Go 27 Apache-2.0 142 30 (8 issues need help) 18 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • containerdisks Public

    Officially built and maintained containerdisks of the KubeVirt project

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    Go 34 Apache-2.0 26 5 0 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • hyperconverged-cluster-operator Public

    Operator pattern for managing multi-operator products

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    Go 161 Apache-2.0 156 5 17 Updated Apr 4, 2025
  • ci-performance-benchmarks Public

    Store for performance results of perf-report-creator

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    HTML 0 Apache-2.0 2 0 0 Updated Apr 3, 2025
  • enhancements Public

    Tracking KubeVirt related enhancements and issues

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    4 16 14 12 Updated Apr 3, 2025
  • kubevirt.core Public

    Lean Ansible bindings for KubeVirt

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    Python 16 Apache-2.0 11 6 0 Updated Apr 3, 2025