Hey Everyone, wanted to share a few things with the community about Virtualisation or Virtual Machines on Kubernetes, in the field and with the overall Hypervisor Hunger Games all options are on the table it seems. 

I have made my feelings quite clear around vSphere being the best hypervisor and ultimately today still the best ecosystem but this is not stopping the exploration of alternatives. 

​@Geoff Burke and I did a live stream at the end of August touching on a project called Kubevirt, this is the mechanism to run Virtual Machines on Kubernetes, either as an alternative hypervisor and / or alongside your containers. This is also what we find being used in the enterprise products such as Red Hat OpenShift and SUSE Harvester.

Every month me and Geoff jump on the live stream and cover something cloudy, DevOpsy or just something interesting. 
 

From this episode and the release of the Veeam Software Appliance, I had an idea lets show the apples to oranges comparison here between say something like a vSphere and Kubevirt. First I covered the how to deploy the Veeam Software Appliance to a vSphere environment. 

https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/the-veeam-software-appliance-the-linux-experience

Lets deploy the Software Appliance to Kubevirt and see what that looks like. 

 https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/deploying-the-veeam-software-appliance-on-kubevirt

You will notice a different experience in both scenarios. I think this has to be considered and this is vanilla Kubevirt and not an OpenShift Virtualisation experience which does elevate the process to be more UI driven than all this YAML… but not much. 

The final thing I wanted to add was ​@saintdle did a fantastic post a few months back, arming anyone going from vSphere into Kubevirt and it gets into all the detail here and comparisons. 

https://veducate.co.uk/kubevirt-for-vsphere-admins-deep-dive-guide/ 

Let me know if there is a topic to discuss on the show with Geoff and I? 

Are you seeing Kubernetes in general in your day to day? 

Is Kubernetes a long way off in your environment? Does someone else support and manage it?