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September 20, 2023

Building VM images using Tekton and Secrets

Background Offering a range of predefined virtual machine images that are ready to consume and populated with a desired set of packages and configurations has become a default in the virtualization ...

Jens Feind

September 7, 2023

Running VMs the Cloud Native Way

Did you know that you can run virtual machines on OpenShift? OpenShift Virtualization is an operator that allows you to do just that. Once the operator is installed, you can run your VMs on ...

Ronen Sde-Or

September 6, 2023

OpenShift Virtualization for vSphere Admins: An Introduction to Network Configurations

OpenShift Virtualization is Red Hat's solution for companies trending toward modernization by adopting a containerized architecture for their applications, but find virtualization remains a necessary ...

Alan Cowles

September 5, 2023

Creating a Golden Image for Windows VMs in OpenShift Virtualization

Creating virtual machines (VMs) from golden images is a common practice. It minimizes the deployment time for new VMs and provides a familiar environment for the VM's owner. The admin benefits from ...

Karel Simon and Dominik Holler

August 21, 2023

The Value of OpenShift

Value can be a hard word to nail down. Does it refer to the actual dollar amount you can get for your car, today? Is it about the amount you paid for it when it was new? Is it a function of the ...

Alex Handy

August 16, 2023

Introducing the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 Director Operator

Virtualization isn’t going away any time soon. Alongside the ever-growing need to modernize and move towards a more elastic, agile, and scalable cloud native infrastructure, many organizations also ...

Gil Rosenberg

August 10, 2023

A Simple Path to Virtual Machines

In the past, I have blogged about different ways to create working VirtualMachine (VM) definitions for OpenShift Virtualization in YAML. Whether you choose to create an example VM in the console, or ...

Chandler Wilkerson

August 8, 2023

OpenShift Virtualization: Unleashing the power of virtual environments

Despite the race toward cloud and cloud-native implementations, most IT workloads are hosted in virtual machines (VMs) and will continue to be. As virtualization enters its fourth evolutionary epoch, ...

Anha Mehta and Ian Pilcher

July 5, 2023

Unleashing the Power of KubeVirt

Many of the existing enterprise applications run in Virtual machines (VMs) and will continue to do so for a long time. With the recent development in the vendor landscape, so many customers are ...

Sachin Mullick and Peter Lauterbach

July 5, 2023

Using MetalLB to access OpenShift Virtual Machines

In our previous article regarding high availability, we configured a Galera database cluster within MariaDB on three OpenShift VMs. In this article we are going to expand on that and grant access to ...

William Bell

June 16, 2023

Migrate your virtual machines to OpenShift Virtualization using Migration Toolkit for Virtualization 2.4

More than ever before, the industrialized world is facing daily change. Our work processes are becoming increasingly complex, and with that comes greater demands for flexibility and scalability. ...

Jochen Schröder

June 6, 2023

Connecting to VMs in Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

OpenShift Virtualization provides a great solution for non-containerized applications, but it does introduce some challenges over legacy virtualization products and bare-metal systems. One such ...

John Herr