{
  "id": 19365004,
  "title": "CNCF Graduates KubeVirt as Project Marks 10 Years of Running VMs on Kubernetes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/cncf-graduates-kubevirt-as-project-marks-10-years-of-running-vms-on",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-10T17:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Container Journal",
    "slug": "container-journal",
    "url": "https://cloudnativenow.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026/cncf-graduates-kubevirt-as-project-marks-10-years-of-running-vms-on-kubernetes/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that KubeVirt, an open source project that integrates Kubernetes with virtual machines (VMs), has reached graduated status. This marks the project's 10th anniversary and was confirmed at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026. Red Hat originally developed KubeVirt in 2016. The project provides VM management within an existing Kubernetes cluster through custom resources and controllers, allowing teams to create, schedule, and manage VMs using the same declarative APIs they employ for containers. KubeVirt advanced to the CNCF Sandbox in September 2019 and became Incubating in April 2022. To achieve graduation, the project completed a third-party security audit, established a formal steering committee, and adopted the CNCF Code of Conduct. Today, KubeVirt boasts 2,088 contributors from 520 organizations, including NVIDIA, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, SUSE, and Red Hat itself. Major production users include ByteDance, Cloudflare, CoreWeave, and NVIDIA, with applications ranging from cloud gaming and continuous integration runners to GPU-backed VMs for AI cloud infrastructure. Swisscom operates a sovereign managed Kubernetes service built on KubeVirt and Kube-OVN, encompassing 390 clusters and 2,100 worker nodes. CNCF Chief Technology Officer Chris Aniszczyk emphasized the importance of running VMs and containers on a single platform to ensure operational efficiency as organizations scale AI and cloud-native infrastructure. KubeVirt's graduation confirms its role as a Kubernetes-native solution for integrating VMs into the platform, offering teams the consistency needed for modernization on their own terms. The project has introduced GPU claims through Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) in version 1.9, and is extending this model to Shared CPU (SR-IOV) network devices, generic host devices, and CPUs. Confidential VM support includes AMD SEV and SEV-SNP, IBM Secure Execution, Intel TDX, with Arm Confidential Computing currently in development. The community is also developing a pluggable framework, built upon the Hypervisor Abstraction Layer introduced in version 1.8, allowing alternative hypervisors like Cloud Hypervisor, OpenVMM, and Firecracker to coexist outside the core project.",
  "summary": "SALT LAKE CITY -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 that KubeVirt, the open source project that extends Kubernetes to run and manage virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers, has reached graduated status. The milestone coincides with the project’s 10th anniversary. Red Hat The post CNCF Graduates KubeVirt as Project Marks 10…",
  "key_points": [
    "KubeVirt graduates from CNCF, marking 10 years of VM management on Kubernetes",
    "Red Hat developed KubeVirt in 2016, now with 2,088 contributors from 520 organizations",
    "CNCF Chief Technology Officer emphasizes single platform for VMs and containers"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}