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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. enhancements enhancements Public

    Tracking KubeVirt related enhancements and issues

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  3. user-guide user-guide Public

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

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  4. community community Public

    Community content

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  5. api-reference api-reference Public

    API documentation

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  6. 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 1 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • containerdisks Public

    Officially built and maintained containerdisks of the KubeVirt project

    kubevirt/containerdisks’s past year of commit activity
    Go 43 Apache-2.0 27 3 0 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • vm-console-proxy Public

    Proxy for VM console connection.

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    Go 10 Apache-2.0 11 3 2 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • project-infra Public

    Project infrastructure administrative tools

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    Go 30 Apache-2.0 154 25 (6 issues need help) 21 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • ssp-operator Public

    Operator that deploys additional KubeVirt resources

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    Go 34 Apache-2.0 49 4 8 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • kubevirt-velero-plugin Public

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

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    Go 38 Apache-2.0 41 1 8 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • kubevirt/hostpath-provisioner’s past year of commit activity
    Go 80 Apache-2.0 43 2 22 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • kubevirt-tekton-tasks Public

    VM specific tasks for Tekton Pipelines

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    Go 36 Apache-2.0 35 8 5 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • kubevirt Public

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

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    Go 6,310 Apache-2.0 1,491 233 242 Updated Sep 7, 2025
  • hyperconverged-cluster-operator Public

    Operator pattern for managing multi-operator products

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    Go 166 Apache-2.0 158 5 24 Updated Sep 7, 2025