Kubevirt blog #5559
Kubevirt blog #5559
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Adding Harshit from the Azure Linux engineering team as an author, as much of the KubeVirt doc is based off a doc he wrote.
Updated authors list to include 'harshit-gupta'.
Added an introduction to KubeVirt and its benefits for VM management in Kubernetes.
Updated tags to include 'kubevirt' for better categorization.
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Pull request overview
This PR adds a new blog post about deploying KubeVirt on AKS, scheduled for publication on January 26, 2026. The post provides a step-by-step guide for users to set up KubeVirt, an open-source CNCF project that enables running virtual machines within Kubernetes clusters.
Changes:
- Added a new blog post explaining KubeVirt benefits and providing deployment instructions for AKS
- Added new author "harshit-gupta" to authors.yml
- Added new "kubevirt" tag to tags.yml
- Fixed incomplete description for the "kueue" tag
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Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 8 comments.
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| website/blog/2026-01-26-kubevirt-on-aks/index.md | New blog post with KubeVirt deployment guide including cluster creation, installation steps, and VMI creation examples |
| website/blog/authors.yml | Added new author entry for Harshit Gupta |
| website/blog/tags.yml | Added kubevirt tag and fixed truncated kueue tag description |
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| title: "Deploying KubeVirt on AKS" | ||
| date: "2026-01-30" | ||
| description: "Learn how to deploy KubeVirt on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to run and manage virtual machines alongside containerized applications using Kubernetes orchestration" | ||
| authors: ["jack-jiang", "harshit-gupta"] | ||
| tags: ["kubevirt", "general", "operations"] | ||
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The blog post date is in the future (2026-01-30), but the front matter is missing draft: true. According to the repository guidelines, Docusaurus publishes all posts immediately when deployed, regardless of date. To prevent premature publishing during PR review, add draft: true to the front matter. This should be removed before the intended publication date.
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Approving, please make the changes.
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Linter fixes.
| export RELEASE=$(curl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubevirt-prow/release/kubevirt/kubevirt/stable.txt) | ||
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| # Deploy the KubeVirt operator | ||
| kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/download/${RELEASE}/kubevirt-operator.yaml | ||
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| 1. Install the KubeVirt custom resource. | ||
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| ```bash | ||
| curl -L https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/download/${RELEASE}/kubevirt-cr.yaml \ | ||
| | yq '.spec.infra.nodePlacement={}' \ | ||
| | kubectl apply -f - |
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The installation commands fetch and apply KubeVirt manifests directly from third-party URLs (stable.txt, kubevirt-operator.yaml, and kubevirt-cr.yaml) without pinning to an immutable version or verifying integrity. An attacker who compromises the KubeVirt release pipeline or those hosting locations could change these artifacts and gain cluster-level control when users run kubectl apply as written. To reduce this supply chain risk, pin installs to a specific trusted release (or digest) and verify integrity instead of relying on the mutable stable pointer and unauthenticated remote YAML.
| image: quay.io/kubevirt/fedora-with-test-tooling-container-disk:devel | ||
| name: containerdisk | ||
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The example VMI uses a third-party container image quay.io/kubevirt/fedora-with-test-tooling-container-disk:devel, which is a mutable development tag. If that image tag is ever replaced with a malicious build (e.g., registry compromise), users following this guide would run untrusted code in their clusters. Prefer referencing a specific, trusted version or image digest rather than a mutable :devel tag to limit supply chain and integrity risks.
Adding a blog about deploying KubeVirt on AKS, to be published on 1-30-2026.