Harvester is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform for bare metal servers that combines virtualization and distributed storage on top of Kubernetes.
It’s designed for organizations that want to run virtual machines alongside cloud-native workloads using established open technologies such as KVM, KubeVirt, and Longhorn, with management suited to both datacenter and edge deployments.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Ships as a bootable appliance image and can be installed directly from ISO media or through automated iPXE deployment.
- Provides virtual machine lifecycle management, including creation, editing, cloning, deletion, cloud-init support, SSH key injection, and graphical and serial console access.
- Supports live migration so virtual machines can be moved between hosts with no downtime.
- Includes backup, snapshot, and restore capabilities for virtual machines, with support for external targets such as NFS and S3-compatible storage.
- Offers distributed block storage, volume management, and storage tiering.
- Includes network management features such as virtual IPs, VLAN and untagged networks, and support for multiple network interface cards.
- Integrates with Rancher so virtual machine workloads can be managed alongside Kubernetes clusters.
Website: github.com/harvester/harvester
Support:
Developer: Harvester developers
License: Apache License 2.0
Harvester is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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