ChiruWhat 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 Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Open SourceKubernetes CompatibleWindows and Linux VMs
KubeVirt Pros & Cons
Pros of KubeVirt
No pros listed yet.
Cons of KubeVirt
No cons listed yet.
KubeVirt Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to KubeVirt?
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).
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.
