Michael DeHaan wrote:
Virt-Factory? What's that?
Basically, Virt-factory is our ongoing project to make better tools
for managing a very large number (like a datacenter's worth) of Xen
machines and virtual appliances.
http://virt-factory.et.redhat.com
For virt-factory to help command infrastructure, it has to have a pool
of physical hosts assigned to it. You can either PXE new machines
from the VF server, or register existing ones using a command line
registration tool. From there, you can use the Web UI to add more
virtual machines to any of your hosts and control the virtualization
state of those machines. Currently it's not quite up to speed with
virt-manager in terms of feature parity, but it does have
start/stop/pause/shutdown/etc controls -- we're getting there.
Supporting migration is on the roadmap.
Virt-Factory is different from other management apps in a few key
areas. We use the concept of Profiles to say what a machine does.
This integrates systems management (Puppet) with the provisioning
process (Cobbler) all in one easy step -- and all controlled with a
very simple user interface. Administrators can create (or import)
profiles, assign them to existing machines, and share them with other
virt-factory users. ISVs could also create profiles for commercial
software. Basically, profiles are a lightweight way of building
software appliances.
Future releases will also concentrate heavily on batch management,
such as finding good candidates to migrate virtual machines to when
taking a physical host offline, or doing interesting things with
tagging and reporting. So, by integrating systems management tools
in with good batch management solutions, we'll have a unique (and
free) solution
for doing a lot of interesting things around virtualization management.
This particular release adds several new things:
-- More streamlined setup process
(http://virt-factory.et.redhat.com/vf-install-setup.php)
-- User interface is now rethemed and improved -- (thanks to Máirín
Duffy for help on this)
-- The server now sets up and runs PostgreSQL automatically -- as
opposed to sqlite
-- Changes to work with newer builds of Puppet
-- Localization framework (though no included translations yet)
-- Lots of code/architectural cleanup and bugfixes
Our plans for future releases are detailed here:
http://virt-factory.et.redhat.com/vf-roadmap.php
Keep in mind this project is still getting off the ground somewhat, so
it's not quite ready for production use. The next release (0.0.4)
will address a lot of those critical features.
If you have comments, questions, or ideas ... as usual, we'd love to
hear them. Check out http://virt-factory.et.redhat.com, email us
here, or stop by on IRC. We have a channel #virt-factory on
irc.freenode.net.
Downloads are here: http://virt-factory.et.redhat.com/download.php
Thanks!
Michael DeHaan
Adrian Likins
Scott Seago
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I also forgot to credit the following folks for help on 0.0.3:
Thanks to...
Kevin Smith
Jeff Ortel
Jesus Rodriguez
Appreciate the help, guys :)
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