{
  "id": 19590678,
  "title": "A decade in, KubeVirt pushes virtual machines into the AI agent era",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/a-decade-in-kubevirt-pushes-virtual-machines-into-the-ai-agent-era",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-12T02:27:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SiliconANGLE",
    "slug": "siliconangle",
    "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/11/11/confidential-computing-ai-agents-push-kubevirt-vms-forward-kubeconna/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Confidential computing is gaining interest as businesses consider where their most sensitive AI workloads can securely run. This shift is giving virtual machines a new role alongside containers on Kubernetes, instead of being phased out. KubeVirt, an open-source project that runs VMs within Kubernetes clusters, is marking a decade since its inception and has recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Its maintainers are now focusing on AI isolation, agent sandboxes, and confidential computing, a technology that is experiencing a resurgence, according to Itamar Holder, principal software engineer and KubeVirt maintainer at Red Hat Inc. Holder explained that confidential computing can help companies with highly sensitive data join public cloud services. He and Vladik Romanovsky, technical lead and KubeVirt maintainer at Red Hat, discussed the project's evolution from a virtualization tool into an operating layer for AI workloads during an interview at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. They highlighted how KubeVirt is integrating dynamic resource allocation for GPU hardware, with Nvidia developers contributing to the project. Holder emphasized that VMs and containers can work together as one application, with VMs handling heavy lifting and isolation, while containers provide better scaling for cache applications. The project is also looking into AI agent sandboxing, where Red Hat is developing infrastructure, aiming to become an isolation backend for the Kubernetes agent sandbox repository. Holder believes KubeVirt offers benefits that other isolation backends lack, including live migration and complex hardware configurations with dynamic resource allocation.",
  "summary": "Confidential computing is drawing fresh interest as enterprises weigh where their most sensitive AI workloads can safely run. That shift is giving virtual machines a new role alongside containers on Kubernetes, rather than a slow retirement. The timing lines up with a milestone for KubeVirt, the open-source project that runs VMs inside Kubernetes clusters, which […] The post A decade in, KubeVirt…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "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."
}