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author: fabiand
description: This is the seventh weekly update from the KubeVirt team.
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pub-date: October 24
pub-year: 2017
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tags: [release notes, changelog]
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This is the seventh weekly update from the KubeVirt team.

This week you can read more or speak to us at:

- KVM Forum, Prague Thursday, October 26, 10:00 - 10:45
  <https://kvmforum2017.sched.com/event/BnoA>

- "KubeWHAT?" by S Gordon - On KubeVirt and OpenStack (past event)
  <https://www.slideshare.net/sgordon2/kubewhat>

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We are currently driven by

- Being easier to be used on Kubernetes and OpenShift

- Enabling people to contribute

- Node Isolator use-case (more informations soon)

This week we achieved to:

- VMs and components are now running in the host pid namespace
  (@dvossel) <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/506>

- Move dependency management from glide to dep ()
  <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/511>

- Add a leader election mechanism to virt-controller (@)
  <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/461>

- Add OpenAPI specification (@)
  <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/494>

- Put work on api server aggregation on hold for now (@stu-gott) To be
  resolved: API server storage
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/355>)

In addition to this, we are also working on:

- Finalization of pod networking (@vladikr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/525>)

- Access to the node control network (@rmohr)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/499>)

- Custom VM metrics discussion (@fromanirh)
  (<https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/487>)

- Simple persistence mechanism (@petrkotas)
  (<https://github.com/petrkotas/virt-vmconfig-crd/>)

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>
