William Rizzo, a CNCF Ambassador and Global Field CTO at Mirantis, announced his project, KubeSwift, which provides Kubernetes-native VM orchestration on Cloud Hypervisor.

Here’s the idea behind KubeSwift: “KubeSwift runs virtual machines as Kubernetes workloads. You define a VM with a custom resource; controllers reconcile it into a Pod; inside that Pod, swiftletd launches a hypervisor.” (Cloud Hypervisor, on which this project relies, is a VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) for cloud workloads written in Rust.)

While still being in the pre-1.0 state, KubeSwift already supports disk boot from cloud images and direct kernel boot from OCI artifacts, Multus and OVN-Kubernetes for networking, exposing guest ports as Kubernetes Services, GPU passthrough, disk snapshots, offline and live migrations, managing fleets of identical VMs, swiftctl CLI tool for lifecycle management and operations, and many other features.

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Language: Go | License: AGPL 3.0 | 18 ⭐️

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