Maintaining a healthy open source project amid competing company interests is hard. KubeVirt addresses this with its Enhancements (VEP) process and SIG governance, inspired by Kubernetes’ KEP framework, to enable transparent, community-driven development.
In this session, we’ll explain how KubeVirt adapted these practices, walk through the VEP lifecycle from proposal to graduation, and show how it enables collaboration across companies. Using the VirtualMachinePool feature as a real-world example, we’ll highlight how an NVIDIA engineer and a Red Hat core contributor worked together to deliver IaaS-style VM lifecycle management in Kubernetes.
Attendees will gain practical strategies for fostering effective open source collaboration and see how VEP is evolving to support new challenges, including AI/high-performance workloads and multi-hypervisor support, as KubeVirt moves toward CNCF graduation.
Join us to see how Kubernetes-inspired governance drives innovation and growth.