What is KubeVirt?
It 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.
KubeVirt is a tool in the Virtual Machine Management category of a tech stack.
KubeVirt is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to KubeVirt's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses KubeVirt?
Developers
5 developers on StackShare have stated that they use KubeVirt.
KubeVirt Integrations
KubeVirt's Features
- Open Source
- Kubernetes Compatible
- Windows and Linux VMs
KubeVirt Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to KubeVirt?
OpenStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
libvirt
It is an open-source API, daemon and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It can be used to manage KVM, Xen, VMware ESXi, QEMU and other virtualization technologies.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Vagrant
Vagrant provides the framework and configuration format to create and manage complete portable development environments. These development environments can live on your computer or in the cloud, and are portable between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
boot2docker
boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV).
