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author: fabiand
description: This is a weekly update from the KubeVirt team.
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pub-date: February 10
pub-year: 2018
category: updates
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tags: [release notes, changelog]
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This is a weekly update from the KubeVirt team.

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We are currently driven by

- Building a solid user-story around KubeVirt

- Caring about end-to-end (backend, core, ui)

- Rework our architecture

- Getting dependencies into shape (storage)

- Improve the user-experience for users (UI, deployment)

- Being easier to be used on Kubernetes and OpenShift

Within the last weeks we achieved to:

- Move to a decentralized the architecture (@davidvossel)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/663>)

- Drop live migration for now (@davidvossel)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/702>)

- Change default network provider to flannel (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/710>)

- Adjust uuid API (@mpolednik)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/675>)

- Make cirros and alpine ready for q35 (@rmohr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/688>)

In addition to this, we are also working on:

- Decentralized pod networking (@vladikr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/686>)

- Implement VirtualMachinePresets (@stu-gott)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/652>)

- Implement OfflineVirtualMachines (@pkotas)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/667>)

- Allow deploying OpenShift in vagrant (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/631>)

- Expose CPU requirements in VM pod (@vladikr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/673>)

- Add support for PVs via kubelet (@alukiano)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/671>)

Take a look at the pulse, to get an overview over all changes of this
week: <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pulse>

Finally you can view our open issues at
<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues>

And keep track of events at our calendar
[18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=18pc0jur01k8f2cccvn5j04j1g@group.calendar.google.com)

If you need some help or want to chat you can find us on
<irc://irc.freenode.net/#kubevirt>
