Migrates virtual machines at scale to Kubernetes KubeVirt. Migrations are performed in a few simple steps, first by providing source and destination credentials, then mapping the source and destination infrastructure and creating a choreographed plan, and finally, executing the migration effort.
- Warm migration using Change Block Tracking/Incremental Backup to reduce the downtime, supported in VMware and oVirt migrations.
- For VMware migrations, the Forklift uses virt-v2v guest conversions which installs the virtio drivers and edits the guest to run on QEMU-KVM.
- Migrating to remote clusters, user can install the Forklift on one cluster and orchestrate other cluster to do the migration.
- Migrating VMs between clusters using the KubeVirt Export API.
- Validations of the Virtual Machines to let users know if migration plan has issues that need to be addressed before running.
Deploy the latest Forklift operator index to the cluster
make deploy-operator-index REGISTRY_TAG=latest
Custom build of the controller, bundle and index which will be deployed to the cluster
export REGISTRY_ORG=user
make push-controller-image \
push-operator-bundle-image \
push-operator-index-image \
deploy-operator-index
Note: The order of targets is important as the bundle needs to be created after controller and index after bundle.
Name | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
REGISTRY_TAG | devel | The tag with which the image will be built and pushed to the registry. |
REGISTRY_ORG | kubev2v | The registry organization to which the built image should be pushed. |
REGISTRY | quay.io | The registry address to which the images should be pushed. |
CONTAINER_CMD | autodetected | The container runtime command (e.g.: /usr/bin/podman) |
VERSION | 99.0.0 | The version with which the forklift should be built. |
NAMESPACE | konveyor-forklift | The namespace in which the operator should be installed. |
CHANNELS | development | The olm channels. |
DEFAULT_CHANNEL | development | The default olm channel. |
OPERATOR_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/forklift-operator:latest | The forklift operator image with the ansible-operator role. |
CONTROLLER_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/forklift-controller:latest | The forklift controller image. |
MUST_GATHER_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/forklift-must-gather:latest | The forklift must gather an image. |
UI_PLUGIN_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/forklift-console-plugin:latest | The forklift OKD/OpenShift UI plugin image. |
VALIDATION_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/forklift-validation:latest | The forklift validation image. |
VIRT_V2V_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/forklift-virt-v2v:latest | The forklift virt v2v image for cold migration. |
POPULATOR_CONTROLLER_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/populator-controller:latest | The forklift volume-populator controller image. |
OVIRT_POPULATOR_IMAGE | quay.io/kubev2v/ovirt-populator:latest | The oVirt populator image. |