It is a Red Hat OpenShift feature that integrates the management of virtual machines (VMs) with containers on a single platform, allowing both types of workloads to run side-by-side for agile modernization, migrating traditional VMs, and unifying operations with modern development and operations (DevOps) tools.

What does it allow?

  • Unified Platform: Runs VMs (Linux and Windows) and containers in the same environment, simplifying infrastructure and operations.
  • Application Modernization: Facilitates the migration of traditional applications (VMs) to hybrid cloud environments, integrating them with microservices and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Simplified Management: Offers a single interface to manage all resources (VMs, containers, serverless).
  • Developer Agility: Enables self-service, VM creation and cloning, and integration with development workflows.
  • Technological Foundation: It is based on the KubeVirt open-source project, which allows Kubernetes to run VMs.