Prompted by factors such as Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware Inc., organizations have found themselves on the hunt for tooling to ease their migration of virtual machine workloads into containerized environments.

Born from that enterprise need is KubeVirt, which brings a unified development platform to build, modify and deploy applications residing in both application containers and virtual machines in a shared environment.

“Right now KubeVirt is reaching maturity, so we are focusing more in cleaning up the code and getting more people involved,” said Alice Frosi (pictured, right), principal software engineer at Red Hat Inc. “There have been many initiatives to improve the code base to clarify more the ownership. There has been also a lot of improvement in the user guide as many people are joining the community. This is, of course, the first entry point for the users.”

Frosi and Fabian Deutsch (left), KubeVirt maintainer and senior engineering manager, OpenShift virtualization, at Red Hat, spoke with theCUBE principal analyst Rob Strechay and host Savannah Peterson at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the broad vision for the future of virtualization, Kubernetes and cloud-native computing — one anchored in innovation, collaboration and adaptability. (* Disclosure below.)

Virtualization and Kubernetes: The innovation nexus

Virtualization is undergoing a transformative phase, with an increasing number of organizations eyeing Kubernetes as the infrastructure backbone. Large, data-reliant organizations, such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are already leading the charge in migrating virtual machines into Kubernetes environments, and the stage is set for virtualization to seamlessly integrate with modern cloud-native architectures, according to Deutsch.

“With KubeVirt, we are providing a virtualization solution based on Kubernetes,” he said. “Kubernetes is becoming the infrastructure, and VMs become one workload that’s being run there. KubeVirt is enabling to do that.”

With KubeVirt still in nascency, efforts are under way to streamline deployment processes, particularly for complex workloads such as Windows VMs. The focus is on cleaning up the codebase, enhancing user guides and fostering community involvement, Deutsch added.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: 

(* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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