# A Hypervisor Built on Kubernetes - Cloud Native HCI with Harvester

DevFeed: [A Hypervisor Built on Kubernetes - Cloud Native HCI with Harvester](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-hypervisor-built-on-kubernetes-cloud-native-hci-with-harvester-10600.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/meet-harvester/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2022-03-12T13:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rancher.md>), [virtual machines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virtual-machines.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [k3s](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/k3s.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

Tags: [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [k3s](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/k3s.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rancher.md>), [virtual-machines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtual-machines.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces Harvester, an open-source hypervisor from Rancher built on Kubernetes. It describes running and scaling Linux and Windows virtual machines, providing high availability, and creating RKE1, RKE2, and K3S Kubernetes clusters alongside those virtual machines.

## Source excerpt

Rancher released a next generation open source HCI software hypervisor built on Kubernetes that helps you run virtual machines.With Harvester you can create Linux, Windows, or any virtual machine that can be easily scaled and cluster giving your high availability virtual machines with a few clicks.It also gives you a platform to automatically create HA RKE1, RKE2, and K3S Kubernetes clusters wi...