Today we're pleased to announce the first public release of a new
systems management project -- virt-factory -- currently at bright, new,
and shiny version 0.0.1. Virt-factory is a project that aims to
manage very large numbers of virtual machines in a very managable way.
As it's a very new project, there is a lot of room for developers who
are interested to get involved.
We want this to be very much a community project. Check out the web
site at http://virt-factory.et.redhat.com for more info, and perhaps
also look at the Roadmap (http://et.redhat.com/page/VF_Roadmap) to see
where we'd like to take it.
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From the website:
Virt-Factory manages virtualized infrastructure:
* it focuses on interacting with large numbers of virtual systems
and on addressing some of the interaction problems that brings with it
* it is primarily aimed at a fairly formal setting (data center),
though we hope it is useful on smaller scales, too
* even though it has some uses for bare-metal systems, it is first
and foremost a tool for managing virtual systems, and future
development will be much more focused on virtual systems than
bare-metal systems
Virt-Factory provides both a web UI, for ease of use, and an
XMLRPC API, for scripting of admin actions.
Virt-Factory is built on open-source projects including Cobbler
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com, libvirt http://libvirt.org, and
Puppet http://reductivelabs.com.
Today, Virt-Factory provisions and manages hosts and guests, and
addresses some of the problems specific to virtual systems: it creates
complete host and guest images from metadata descriptions and
centrally manages existing images.
Future work will make it possible to abstract away individual
hosts and place guests into a pool of equivalent hosts,
simplifying the administrator's view of the data center for many
tasks.
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et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx is the project mailing list... and we already
have a git code repository up at the URL above, plus a yum repository,
tarballs, and so forth.
Questions, comments, ideas? We'd be glad to hear from you.
Sincerely,
The Virt Factory Team
Development: Michael DeHaan, Adrian Likins, Scott Seago
Lots of Help From: David Lutterkort, Jim Meyering, and the rest of the
Red Hat Emerging Technologies group
