Let's start with the relationship between the two important components:
- Kubernetes is a container orchestration system, and is used to run containers on a cluster
- KubeVirt is an add-on which is installed on-top of Kubernetes, to be able to add basic virtualization functionality to Kubernetes.
KubeVirt is an add-on to Kubernetes, and they have several things in common:
- Mostly written in golang
- Often related to distributed microservice architectures
- Declarative and Reactive (Operator pattern) approach
This short page shall help to get started with the projects and topics surrounding them
Contributing to KubeVirt should be as simple as possible. Have a question? Want to discuss something? Want to contribute something? Just open an Issue, a Pull Request, or send a mail to our Google Group.
If you spot a bug or want to change something pretty simple, just go ahead and open an Issue and/or a Pull Request, including your changes at kubevirt/kubevirt.
For larger changes that require more planning and discussion, using the KubeVirt design proposal template is highly encouraged. The technical effort for these changes will impact a large section of the development community, so they should be communicated widely. Examples of these types of changes:
- New APIs
- Architectural changes
- Code refactors
- API changes
To make yourself comfortable with the code, you might want to work on some Issues marked with one or more of the following labels: good-first-issue, help wanted or kind/bug. Any help is highly appreciated.
Untested features do not exist. To ensure that what the code really works, relevant flows should be covered via unit tests and functional tests. So when thinking about a contribution, also think about testability. All tests can be run local without the need of CI. Have a look at the Testing section in the Developer Guide.
We require every contributor to certify that they are legally permitted to contribute to our project. A contributor expresses this by consciously signing their commits, and by this act expressing that they comply with the Developer Certificate Of Origin
A signed commit is a commit where the commit message contains the following content:
Signed-off-by: John Doe <[email protected]>
This can be done by adding --signoff to your git command line.
Maintainers are here to help you enabling your use-case in a reasonable amount of time. The maintainers will try to review your code and give you productive feedback in a reasonable amount of time. However, if you are blocked on a review, or your Pull Request does not get the attention you think it deserves, reach out for us via Comments in your Issues, or ping us on Slack #kubevirt-dev @ kubernetes.slack.com.
Maintainers are tracked in OWNERS files and will be assigned by Prow.
Contributors that frequently contribute to the project may ask to join the KubeVirt organization.
Please have a look at our membership guidelines.
- Getting started
- Getting started
- Details
- Golang
- Patterns
- Introducing Operators: Putting Operational Knowledge into Software
- Microservices nice content by Martin Fowler
- Testing