kubevirt
A Kubernetes operator of virtual BMCs that provide Redfish and IPMI services for KubeVirt virtual machines.
Bare-metal provisioning tools like Metal3, Tinkerbell, and Seeder rely on IPMI and Redfish to manage server power state, boot devices, and firmware. KubeVirt virtual machines have none of these interfaces out of the box, making them invisible to existing infrastructure automation.
KubeVirtBMC fills that gap. It is a Kubernetes operator that creates a virtual BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for each KubeVirt VM, exposing standard IPMI and Redfish endpoints that map directly to Kubernetes-native operations. The result: your VMs become first-class citizens in any bare-metal provisioning pipeline.
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Building a virtualization API for Kubernetes.
KubeVirt technology 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.
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- Extending KubeVirt Through the Network Binding Plugin @ Oilbeater.
- From Pets to Cattle: The New Mindset for Managing VMs @ The New Stack.
- Your Container Is Not a Sandbox @ Emir Beganović.
- Save the Address, Save the Cloud: A Hands-on KubeVirt Live Migration Workshop @ Tigera.
- Why your KubeVirt VMs can’t move between clusters — and how EVPN fixes it @ The New Stack.
OpenPERouter (Provider Edge Router) meant to run on linux and to interact with the host through veths.
OpenPERouter is an open implementation of a Provider Edge (PE) router, designed to terminate multiple VPN protocols on Kubernetes nodes and expose a BGP interface to the host network.
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