This is a weekly update from the KubeVirt team - including the holiday backlog update.

We are currently driven by

• Building a solid user-story around KubeVirt

• Caring about end-to-end (backend, core, ui)

• Rework out architecture

• Getting dependencies into shape (storage)

• Improve the user-experience for users (UI, deployment)

• Being easier to be used on Kubernetes and OpenShift

Within the last weeks we achieved to:

• Drop of HAProxy and redeisng of console access (@davidvossel) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/618)

• Dockerized builds to make sure the build env matches the runtime env (@rmohr and others) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/647)

• OwnerReference fixes (@alukiano) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/642)

• OfflineVirtualMachineDesign documentation (@petrkotas) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/641)

• Further RBAC improvements (@gbenhaim) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/640)

• User-Guide

  • The guide saw many updates also for planned stuff

  • Update to reflect v0.2.0 changes (@rmohr) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/12)

  • NodeSelector and affinity (@rmohr) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/15)

  • Hardware configuration (@rmohr) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/14)

  • Volumes and disks (@rmohr) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/13)

  • Cloud-Init (@davidvossel) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/10)

• API Reference

  • Now updated regularly (@lukas-bednar) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/643) https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html

• Demo

  • Got updated to v0.2.0 (@fabiand)

  • But an issue with virtctl was introduced

  • https://github.com/kubevirt/demo

• UI

  • The WIP KubeVirt provider for ManageIQ was showcased (@masayag @pkliczewski)

  • https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-providers-kubevirt/

  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gf2Nv7h558

  • Screenshot:

• UI

  • The Cockpit plugin makes some progress (@mlibra)

  • https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Feature:-Kubernetes:-KubeVirt-support-enhancements

  • https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/7830

  • Screenshot:

• Ansible

  • Move to stable kubevirt release manifests (@gbenhaim) (https://github.com/kubevirt-incubator/kubevirt-ansible/pull/37)

  • Many improvements to make it work seamlessly (@gbenhaim @lukas-bednar)

In addition to this, we are also working on:

• Decentralize the architecture (@davidvossel) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/663)

• Implement VirtualMachinePresets (@stu-gott) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/652)

• virtctl fixes (@davidvossel and @awels) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/648)

• Move to q35 machine type (@mpolednik) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/650)

• Allow deploying OpenShift in vagrant (@alukiano) (https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/631)

  • User-Guide:

    • Offline Virtual Machine docs (@petrkotas) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/9)

    • Persistent Virtual Machines (@stu-gott) (https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/11)

  • Storage

    • Working on enabling PV cloning using PV annotations (@aglitke) (https://github.com/aglitke/external-storage/tree/clone-poc)

    • Working on optimizing Gluster for in-cluster storage

    • Working on the ability to simplify VM image uploads

Take a look at the pulse, to get an overview over all changes of this week: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulse

Finally you can view our open issues at https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues

And keep track of events at our calendar 18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com

If you need some help or want to chat you can find us on <irc://irc.freenode.net/#kubevirt>