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# Welcome

The KubeVirt User Guide is divided into the following sections:

* Architecture: Technical and conceptual overview of KubeVirt components
* Quickstarts: A list of resources to help you learn KubeVirt basics
* Cluster Administration: Cluster-level administration concepts and tasks
* User Workloads: Creating, customizing, using, and monitoring virtual machines 
* Compute: Resource allocation and optimization for the virtualization layer
* Network: Concepts and tasks for the networking and service layers 
* Storage: Concepts and tasks for the storage layer, including importing and exporting.
* Release Notes: The release notes for all KubeVirt releases
* Contributing: How you can contribute to this guide or the KubeVirt project 
* Virtualization Debugging: How to debug your KubeVirt cluster and virtual resources

## Try it out

- Kubevirt on Killercoda: <https://killercoda.com/kubevirt>

- Kubevirt on Minikube: <https://kubevirt.io/quickstart_minikube/>

- Kubevirt on Kind: <https://kubevirt.io/quickstart_kind/>

- Kubevirt on cloud providers: <https://kubevirt.io/quickstart_cloud/>

## KubeVirt Labs

- [Use KubeVirt](https://kubevirt.io/labs/kubernetes/lab1.html)

- [Experiment with Containerized Data Importer (CDI)](https://kubevirt.io/labs/kubernetes/lab2.html)

- [Experiment with KubeVirt Upgrades](https://kubevirt.io/labs/kubernetes/lab3.html)

- [Live Migration](https://kubevirt.io/labs/kubernetes/migration.html)

## Getting help

- File a bug: <https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/issues>

- Mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubevirt-dev>

- Slack: <https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/virtualization>

## Developer

- Start contributing: [Contributing](./contributing.md)

- API Reference: <http://kubevirt.io/api-reference/>

## Privacy

- Check our privacy policy at: <https://kubevirt.io/privacy/>

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