-
Feature
-
Resolution: Unresolved
-
Critical
-
None
-
None
-
Product / Portfolio Work
-
False
-
-
False
-
Green
-
50% To Do, 25% In Progress, 25% Done
-
Feature Overview
An elevator pitch (value statement) that describes the Feature in a clear, concise way. Complete during New status.
<your text here>
Goals
Provide high-level goal statement, providing user context and expected user outcome(s) for this Initiative
- Who benefits from this feature, and how?
- What is the difference between today’s current state and a world with this feature?
Requirements
| Requirement | Notes | isMvp? |
|---|---|---|
(Optional) Use Cases
How will the user interact with this feature?
Which users will use this and when will they use it?
- Include use case diagrams, main success scenarios, alternative flow scenarios. Initial completion during Refinement status.
<your text here>
Questions to answer...
Out of Scope
- High-level list of items that are out of scope. Initial completion during Refinement status.
<your text here>
**
Background, and strategic fit
Provide any additional context is needed to frame the feature. Initial completion during Refinement status.
<your text here>
Assumptions
- <your text here>
Customer Considerations
- Provide any additional customer-specific considerations that must be made when designing and delivering the Feature. Initial completion during Refinement status.
<your text here>
Documentation Considerations
Provide information that needs to be considered and planned so that documentation will meet customer needs. If the feature extends existing functionality, provide a link to its current documentation. Initial completion during Refinement status.
User Experience Considerations
Provide information that needs to be considered and planned so that the user experience will meet customer needs. These could include impacts to the UI or other areas of the user experience, as well as user research needs. Please add the 'UXD' component to this JIRA if there are User Experience considerations. Initial completion during Refinement status.
Tech Preview Timeline:
| Due Date | Milestone | Description | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2026 | Node anti-affinity VEP merged | Alvaro Romero | |
| May 13, 2026 | KubeVirt 1.9 VEP Freeze | ||
| May 26, 2026 | Upstream Support | QEMU and Libvirt builds containing the required support are tested by the virt team and made available as a Tech Preview (10.2, 9.8, 9.6) | Cong Li |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Node Anti-Affinity | Implement Kubevirt node anti-affinity for S3PR volumes. | Alvaro Romero |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Live Migration | Kubevirt enables live migration for VMs using S3PR. | Alvaro Romero |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Testing Env is available | A BM environment with the NetApp Trident Storage class, and 5 worker nodes to facilitate the testing of WSFC with Live Migration, is available | Daniel Keler |
| Jul 1, 2026 | KubeVirt 1.9 Code Freeze | ||
| Jul 22, 2026 | Kubevirt 1.9 Release - Component Release | Kubevirt ships a released version of QEMU/Libvirt that contains the feature. | |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Manual Testing Completed | Complete manual testing of the above capabilities. First round | Kevin Goldblatt |
| Aug 3, 2026 | OCP-V 4.23 Feature Freeze | ||
| Aug 24, 2026 | OCP-V 4.23 Blockers Only | ||
| Sep 1, 2026 | Bug Resolution | All critical and blocker bugs are resolved. | Alvaro Romero Kevin Goldblatt |
| Sep 14, 2026 | OCP-V 4.23 Code Freeze | ||
| Sep 15, 2026 | Automated Testing | Automation is merged | Jose Manuel Castano |
| Oct 6, 2026 | OCP-V 4.23 Release | ||
| Oct 6, 2026 | Docs | Release notes | Catherine Tomasko |