Manually Deploying Kubevirt on OpenShift Origin

It has been enjoyable to learn the Kubevirt code base and coding in Go.  However, unless the code gets deployed to servers, no one will use it in production.  I’ve been learning OpenShift as an integration point for Kubevirt.  Here are my notes for getting it up and running.  This is not quite production grade, but should help write a proper deployment mechanism.

Please note, as of KubeVirt v0.17 installing KubeVirt directly via manifests is deprecated. KubeVirt is now deployed using the operator pattern.

https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/docs/latest/administration/intro.html

The rest of this document is maintained for historical value only.

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Fixing Bug 96869

Bug 968696

The word Admin is used all over the place. To administer was originally something servants did to their masters. In one of the greater inversions of linguistic history, we now use Admin as a way to indicate authority. In OpenStack, the admin role is used for almost all operations that are reserved for someone with a higher level of authority. These actions are not expected to be performed by people with the plebean Member role.

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