SUSE and Rancher's modern hyperconverged platform that runs VMs as Kubernetes resources — KVM via KubeVirt, Longhorn for storage, the whole thing managed as Kubernetes. The most current architecture in the private-cloud field, what you gain from the Kubernetes-everything bet, and the operational weight you inherit whether you wanted it or not.
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KubeVirt: Running VMs on Kubernetes KubeVirt makes virtual machines first-class Kubernetes objects: each VM becomes a CRD, runs inside a virt-launcher pod backed by libvirt and QEMU, and is managed with kubectl like any other workload. This post covers the architecture, the VirtualMachine and VMI CRDs, live migration, CDI disk import, Multus and SR-IOV networking, and the honest question of when running VMs on Kubernetes actually makes sense versus a dedicated hypervisor.