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KubeVirt

Building a virtualization API for Kubernetes

KubeVirt is a virtual machine management extension for Kubenetes, allowing you to create and manage virtualised workloads natively alongside container workloads. It does this by adding virtualization resources through the Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition API. KubeVirt is a Cloud Native Computing Project (CNCF) incubating project.

golang
grpc

virtualization
containers
kubernetes

Project ideas

6 ideas on its 2026 ideas page. Sizes: 3 medium, 2 large.

Title: Early Enablement of CBOR medium
Adapting k8s.io/apiserver in KubeVirt large
Component base testing framework medium
Declarative validation medium
Build System Evaluation large
Custom project proposals

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2023, 4 years. Projects per year: '23: 1, '24: 2, '25: 0, '26: 1.

On GitHub

67 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Go (49), Shell (6), HTML (4), Python (2), Dockerfile (1), Makefile (1).

Links and channels

Website: https://kubevirt.io
Ideas page: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2026
Contributor guide: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2026#how-and-where-to-find-help
Source code: https://github.com/kubevirt
Chat: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C0163DT0R8X
Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "KubeVirt" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "KubeVirt"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "KubeVirt"

or ask your assistant:
"Which KubeVirt repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.