[GSoC] Self-sufficient Virt-handler

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Title: Self-sufficient Virt-handler

Description:

Kubevirt is a Kubernetes extension to run virtual machines on Kubernetes clusters leveraging Libvirt + Qemu & KVM stack. It does this by exposing a custom resource called VirtualMachine which is then translated into a Pod. This Pod is treated as any other application Pods, and includes a monitoring process, virt-launcher, that manages the Libvirt+Qemu processes. The virt-launcher exposes a command grpc server for managing the virtual machine and has a notify client (see below notify server) through which it sends domain (virtual machine state) events and Kubernetes events.

Each node in the cluster is running a node agent, called virt-handler. The virt-handler is using the command servers of virt-launchers to manage virtual machines. It is also providing a notify server that collects domain and Kubernetes events from launchers in order to obtain internal state of virtual machines.

The hard dependencies on OS, file system, presence of virt-launcher Pod and GRPC servers make it hard to run virt-handler independently inside unprivileged Pod without the presence of virt-launcher. The goal of this project is to run virt-handler inside an unprivileged Pod and simulate a virt-launcher so that no Pod for virt-launcher needs to exist.

Goal:

The main goal of this project is to create a proof of concept to run virt-handler in an unprivileged Pod without virt-launcher Pods to be running on the same host. This will enable scalability testing with significantly less resources required.

Link & resources
https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt
Project size: 350 hours (to be confirmed)
Required skills: Golang
Desired skills: Kubernetes, containers
Mentor: Luboslav Pivarc [email protected],