Platform9 Kubernetes Academy
Kubernetes Academy Level 101:
Enterprise Grade Virtualization with KVM & KubeVirt
July 12, 2022, 11 AM PDT
This Kubernetes Academy session is a 60-minute, 101-level session. No prior Kubernetes experience is required, nor do you need a PhD in Linux.
In this session, we will guide you through the key capabilities available to run Virtual Machine workloads on the KVM hypervisor with Kubernetes (specifically, KubeVirt).
A follow-up level 201 session will be available to cover advanced virtualization topics such as DPDK, SRIOV, CPU Pinning, Huge Pages, vTPM, NUMA and GPU Passthrough.
Prerequisites
- Create a Platform9 Free Tier account
- One or more physical machines to run virtual machines on
Key Concepts
- Introduction to the KVM hypervisor
- Getting started the easy way: boot your physical machine with a “batteries included” OS image
- Manage the physical machine with Platform9 with pf9ctl
- Configure KubeVirt to enable KVM management
- Deploying a sample VM: Windows or Linux image
- VM storage: ephemeral disks vs persistent disks
- VM customization: cloud-init, empty disks, host disks, data volumes
- Integrating with storage systems
- VM networking: virtual NICs, IP assignment, applying network policy
- VM resource provisioning: CPU & memory
- VM workflow: importing, copying and snapshotting images
- Live migrating virtual machines
- Audit and event log for virtual machine history
Exercises/ Labs
- Attendees are encouraged to participate with hands-on their own Kubernetes environment
- Take home exercise: Experiment with multiple hypervisors
- Take home exercise: Experiment with multiple guest Operating systems
About Your Hosts
Chris Paap
Product Manager, Edge & Virtualization
Chris Paap is Product Manager for Edge & Virtualization at Platform9. In this capacity, Chris works with customers, solutions architects, support, and product engineering to grow the use of KubeVirt. Before Platform9, Chris worked at Nutanix and Solarwinds; and also ran a large Virtualization environment as an IT Manager.
Matt Roark
Principal Cloud Support Engineer, Platform9
Matt Roark is a Principal Cloud Support Engineer at Platform9. He has extensive experience working to support and orchestrate infrastructure at scale with both bare-metal and virtualized. Certified in OpenStack and Kubernetes – virtual machine and container orchestration – with a most recent obtainment of the Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) designation. He is intimately familiar with Python/Golang (coding) and supporter of open-source technologies.
Register for this 101 Session
Recommended for DevOps & IT admins who are interested in managing virtual machine workloads with open-source KVM hypervisor and Kubernetes.