The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey is monitoring the Milky Way bulge and southern mid-plane in the near-infrared to produce a deep atlas and time-series of stellar variability. Based on the first 1.5 years, the survey has observed up to 13 epochs per source and expects to obtain ~100 epochs for ~109 sources by the end of year 5. Early analysis finds the photometric precision is sufficient to detect RR Lyrae out to the edge of the Milky Way and estimates ~1-2% of sources are likely variable stars.