VirtKick. Take Cloud Back.
VirtKick is a simple, open source orchestrator. Managing virtual machines or Docker containers has never been easier.
That's the VirtKick Starter. It will allow you to start using VirtKick with a single click.
This is a heavy work in progress and not yet one-click install. Don't judge - it will be improved! Please report an issue if you face any problems. We need your help to make it bullet-proof. Thanks! :-)
Distro specific prerequisites
Ubuntu 14.04
Most things are already handled by virtkick-start
, you only need Git.
sudo apt-get install git
Other
Over time we plan to add streamlined installation for other distros as well. General rule of thumb is to have a development environment (make, g++), libvirt and qemu. virtkick-starter
will try to setup rest by itself.
First run
git clone https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-starter.git
cd virtkick-starter
./virtkick-start -dim
First start may take a couple of minutes due to download of various dependencies. It will ask for root password to setup things in setup/system.sh
, as you may inspect. During run it will also download iso images to /home/virtkick/iso
, make sure you have enough disk space left (~25 GB).
After everything is set up, open up http://localhost:3000/ and try out virtkick by creating a virtual machine or two. :) Happy hacking!
Next runs
./virtkick-start -dm
Upgrading
git pull
./virtkick-start -dim
Hacker Zone™
See ./virtkick-start -h
for other options.
Some environment variables may be set to customize:
PORT
- reverse proxy listen port (defaults to 3000)RAILS_PORT
- Rails web application listen port (defaults to 60000)WORKER_COUNT
- number of background jobs workers (defaults to 2)NO_DOWNLOAD
- skip download of iso files to/home/virtkick/iso
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md. Thanks!
Sponsors
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Thanks for your support!
License
VirtKick, a simple orchestrator. Copyright (C) 2014 StratusHost Damian Nowak
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html.
Trademark
The VirtKick name and logo are trademarks of Damian Nowak. You may not use them for promotional purposes, or in any way that claims, suggests or looks like there's a relationship or endorsement by VirtKick.
Other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.