Virtualization

Securing Cloud-init User Data with External Secrets and OpenShift Virtualization

Storing Virtual Machines as Kubernetes resources in git for automated deployment promotes consistency, resilency, and accountability, but commiting secrets to git is risky and should be avoided. Use the External Secrets Operator to securely store cloud-init and other data, and sleep soundly!

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OpenShift Virtual Guest Tagging

Some workloads require the use of VLAN interfaces in virtual machines. VMware terms this feature “Virtual Guest Tagging” or “VLAN Guest Tagging” while OpenStack calls it “VLAN-aware instances”. See how OpenShift Virtualization can pass 802.1q trunks to VMs using a traditional Linux Bridge interface.

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OpenShift Virtualization on vSphere

OpenShift Virtualization builds upon KubeVirt to provide a container native home for your virtual machine workloads. While bare metal is the only officially support platform today, this post will walk through enabling OpenShift Virtualization on vSphere in a lab environment. With nested virtualization you’ll be able to spin up containerized VMs bridged to your physical networks.

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