vRouter-Operator: Bringing GitOps and IaC to Virtual Network Functions in K8s

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vRouter-Operator converts router configurations into Kubernetes CRDs and uses a controller to render templates and push updates into VMs via QEMU guest agent, removing SSH and out‑of‑band management; it runs with KubeVirt and Proxmox VE, targets VyOS images, detects drift through reconciliation loops, records every change in Git for easy rollbacks, and offers an edge agent over gRPC for bare‑metal/remote sites. The project is Apache‑2.0 and demos show live config apply and rollback working end‑to‑end.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:05Current networking problems
3. 6:54Infrastructure as code
4. 10:06Proposed architecture
5. 11:53Operator components
6. 17:02Pushing configuration
7. 20:47Project status and future
8. 22:55Live demonstration
9. 29:16Questions and answers

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