[et-mgmt-tools] Announcing virt-factory 0.0.1

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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







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