Section 8 - Virtual Machine management

Sometimes you need to run Virtual Machines at the edge, maybe because you have legacy applications that are not modernized (maybe they can't be) or because your Software provider didn't containerized their bits yet.
Red Hat Device Edge can also run VMs using the KVM hypervisor (libvirt), the same that uses Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization or Red Hat OpenStack. In this case RHDE does not provide a multinode control plane but you can use Ansible Automation Platform to manage your VMs from a central site, and if you make use of Event Driven Automation you could even start managing some aspects of your VM lifecycle management in a GitOps way.
During this section we are going to see some ideas about how to deploy VMs using some basic GitOps principles (we will have the VM definition in a file in Gitea).