This Month in KubeVirt: January 2026
Welcome to our monthly roundup highlighting project news, community writings, and resources devoted to the KubeVirt project! This series is intended to be an open-source resource for developers, platform engineers, storage experts, and anyone interested in learning more about the ins-and-outs of Day 1 and Day 2 operations of virtual machines in containers with KubeVirt.
In this issue, we feature several items covering the basics of running KubeVirt, best practices in networking, and the mobility of virtual machines in Kubernetes clusters.
Project News
17-Dec: KubeVirt Undergoes OSTIF Security Audit by Helen Woeste
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) recently completed a comprehensive security audit of the KubeVirt project. The audit identified 15 security findings, ranging from informational to high severity, including the discovery of CVE 2025-64324. KubeVirt’s architectural focus on sandboxing and isolation effectively limited the potential impact and exploitability of these vulnerabilities.
Community Meetings and Discussions
14-Jan: KubeVirt Community Meeting
- v1.8 Release Status: Roadmap for the v1.8 milestone, ensuring feature stability and coordinating with SIG-Release to meet upcoming deadlines
- Event Planning: calls for session proposals for DevConf.cz and ContainerDays Hamburg.
20-Jan: Dynamic Resource Allocation Support Discussion
Technical discussion regarding Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) for VM instances.
28-Jan: KubeVirt Community Meeting
AI contribution policies and more discussions about the v1.8 release schedule
KubeVirt Blogs and Videos
19-Dec: KubeVirt to run VMs in your K8s Cluster by Sergio Méndez
Sergio provides a practical tutorial on using KubeVirt to run virtual machines alongside containers in a Kubernetes cluster. He highlights KubeVirt as a practical solution for integrating legacy applications that cannot be easily containerized into a modern cloud-native ecosystem.
25-Dec: Kubevirt – Part 1: Definition and Network by Vincent Burgun
Vincent walks us through his experiences deploying KubeVirt to manage virtual machines alongside containers within a custom-built, on-premises Kubernetes cluster. He emphasizes the importance of observing specific hardware prerequisites to ensure stable performance in a bare metal environment.
6-Jan: Hosting and scaling EKS hybrid nodes with KubeVirt and Kube-OVN CNI by Jean-Francois Nadeau (in French)
Jean-Francois explores a specialized virtualization architecture that uses KubeVirt and Kube-OVN to automate the lifecycle and networking of AWS EKS hybrid worker nodes within a private data center. He demonstrates how to leverage VM instance pools and cloud-init scripts to simplify the process of joining local bare-metal capacity to an AWS control plane without relying on traditional virtualization stacks like VMware.
19-Jan: KubeVirt: Running and Managing VMs on Kubernetes by Thomas Philipona (Video)
A 45-minute community talk organized by Cloud Native Suisse Romande exploring how KubeVirt supports cloud-native principles.
20-Jan: KubeVirt: The Truth About Virtualization Overhead In Kubernetes by Andrei Kvapil
KubeVirt provides a robust solution for achieving hard multi-tenancy by running virtual machines as regular Linux processes within Kubernetes containers. Andrei highlights that integrating time-tested technologies like LVM, ZFS, and DRBD allows teams to build high-performance, scalable cloud infrastructures without the need for expensive external storage.
30-Jan: KubeVirt: The Bridge Between Worlds by Janakiram MSV
In the second part of a multi-part series, Jani explains how KubeVirt acts as a bridge for organizations transitioning from VMware to Kubernetes by allowing virtual machines to run as first-class citizens alongside containers. With this approach, companies can modernize their IT operations at their own pace without the immediate need to refactor every application.
31-Jan: Mobility of Virtual Machines in Kubernetes clusters: Cross-Cluster Live Migration and Storage Live Migration (Video) by Adam Litke and Jenia Peimer
In this talk at FOSDEM 2026, Adam and Jenia show how organizations can perform hardware maintenance, load balancing, and storage upgrades in KubeVirt without interrupting critical workloads.
31-Jan: Go BGP or Go Home: Simplifying KubeVirt VM’s Ingress with Your Favorite Routing Protocol (Video) by Miguel Duarte and Or Mergi
From another talk at FOSDEM 2026, Miguel and Or propose a BGP-based alternative to NAT to expose workloads outside the Kubernetes cluster and simplify KubeVirt networking, speed up troubleshooting, and ensure consistent connectivity for virtualized workloads.
Upcoming KubeVirt Events and Talks
Ongoing: KubeVirt Community Calendar
23-26 Mar: KubeCon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference brings together adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities for all things Kubernetes, including best practices for platform engineering, application development, AI, data management, and much more!
23-Mar: VMs on Kubernetes Day, nhow, Amsterdam RAI
For platform engineers, Kubernetes operators, and infrastructure teams actively exploring or implementing VMs on Kubernetes. Learn the practical requirements to make VMs on Kubernetes successful in production, with real examples and an opportunity for hands-on experience.
by Bhumitra Nagar and Dhruv Bhatnagar, Portworx by Pure Storage
While the KubeVirt community has built a variety of tools for testing and observability of workloads using container-specific metrics, Bhumitra and Dhruv will introduce the first vendor-neutral, end-to-end benchmarking framework designed specifically for virtual machines.
The KubeVirt Performance Benchmarking Suite is an open-source toolkit that enables operators, SREs, and platform architects to measure the performance characteristics of KubeVirt workloads across any Kubernetes distribution and any CSI storage backend.
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