Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018

Event Details

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Friendly coexistence of Virtual Machines and Containers on Kubernetes using KubeVirt

KubeVirt is intended to provide a convergence point for the data center of the future using Kubernetes as an infrastructure fabric for both application container and virtual machine workloads. Using a unified management approach simplifies deployments, allows for better resource utilization, and supports different workloads in a more optimal way.

This session will outline how the Kubevirt project seeks to achieve this while using the extensible nature of Kubernetes in a way that provides a developer workflow that is as consistent as possible with the same patterns used for working with application containers.

Finally attendees will see a brief demo of how KubeVirt works today, before a discussion of where we want to go next!


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn what KubeVirt is, the use cases it is aimed at, how it adds support for virtual machine workloads to Kubernetes clusters, and a brief comparison to other approaches taken by different projects like Katacontainers.

Wednesday, May 23, 5:30pm-6:10pm (12:30am - 1:10am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Principal Software Engineer
Stu is a software engineer at Red Hat, and has been a strong advocate of open source ever since he first started using Linux in the late '90s. After leaving the Navy in 2005, Stu has been a software engineer focused in various areas--some of which are virtualization/containerization and package management. FULL PROFILE
Red Hat
Geographically displaced Australian. Focused on building infrastructure solutions for compute use cases using a spectrum of virtualization, containerization, and bare-metal provisioning technologies. Stephen is currently a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat based in Toronto, Canada. He got his start in Open Source while building out and managing web-based solutions for the Earth Systems... FULL PROFILE