The next 10 years of KubeVirt
KubeVirt, founded by Red Hat in 2016, enables Kubernetes to run virtual machines alongside containers, allowing legacy workloads to coexist with modernized applications on the same platform. The project is now an incubating CNCF effort with contributions from major firms including Nvidia, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and SUSE. Future development priorities include support for new hardware devices, confidential computing, and architectural modularity. The project's enhancement proposals have grown significantly, with v1.8–v1.10 tracked against over a hundred planned improvements.
Key points
- KubeVirt aims for CNCF graduation with backing from major hardware and software vendors.
- Roadmap priorities: new hardware support, confidential VMs, sandbox capabilities, and extensibility.
- Enhancement proposal queue has grown from a small set to over 100 items across recent versions.
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