Ganeti
Ganeti is a virtual machine cluster management tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other open source software. (by ganeti)
Packer
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. (by hashicorp)
Ganeti | Packer | |
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5 | 66 | |
469 | 14,935 | |
1.5% | 0.6% | |
6.0 | 9.4 | |
2 days ago | 5 days ago | |
Python | Go | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Ganeti
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ganeti.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Virtual machine severs
For clusters of VMs, there's things like Ganeti
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6 node cluster hyperconverged recommendations
There's also Ganeti. It works pretty well and has a long, stable, history of working well.
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Centrally manage Linux VMs on multiple physical KVM hosts
Ganeti will manage this.
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I started working at a large technology company in March and has it been an eye opening adventure.
It's funny, Google developed their own hyperconverged stack back in 2007 because it didn't want to give vmware any money. They had couple of engineers to build Ganeti rather than pay for all the vmware licenses they needed for corp office infra.
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Which server management platform do you prefer for virtualization?
Maybe not "simple", but Ganeti is pretty powerful. A Ganeti + Ceph combo will build you a hyperconverged system. Ganeti will scale to hundreds to thousands of servers. Plus it can build multi-cluster setups, where you can move VMs between clusters easily.
Packer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Packer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-29.
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AWS Cloud Platform for highly loaded WordPress website
The missing piece of puzzle is the AMI "golden image" that will be used to start the instances in autoscaling group. The AMI has to have NGINX and PHP installed with the list of required modules enabled. The great tool to brew one is hashicorp packer.
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck
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Avoiding DevOps tool hell
Server templating: Using Packer has never been easier to create reusable server configurations in a platform-independent and documented manner.
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How to create an iso image of a finished system
I'll give you hard, but rewarding and easy to modify(once you know what you're doing) way. Packer may be a thing you're looking for.
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13.2 ZFS root AMIs in AWS
It is straightforward to build them with packer (I have built AMIs for 13.0 and 13.1, but 13.2 should be exactly the same). I've been meaning to write a blog post about it for a while, but have not gotten to it yet... In any case, what I am doing is using the EBS Surrogate Builder to start an instance running the official FreeBSD 13.2 image with an extra volume attached and run a script to create a zpool on the extra volume and bootstrap and configure FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE on it. After that packer takes care of creating an AMI out of that extra volume, so you can use it... If you have any issues, let me know, and maybe I will finally get to writing that blog post...
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DevOps Tooling Landscape
HashiCorp Packer is a tool for creating machine images for a variety of platforms, including AWS, Azure, and VMware. It allows you to define machine images as code and supports a wide range of configuration options.
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auto-provisioning multiple raspberry pi's
Packer is a tool that can be used to build machine images. Basically, it takes a base image, runs a series of steps to provision that image, and then burns a new image. In my workplace we use it heavily to build AWS AMIs. But it has an ARM plugin that looks to be very very suitable for building customised Raspberry Pi images (my quick read of the doco there says it can go ahead and write the final image to an SD card for you too).
- How do hosting companies immediately create vm right after purchasing one?
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Packer preseed file seems to not be read
Seems related to https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/12118 But the workaround discribed in the comments doesn’t seems to work anymore
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How to create AMI which also copies the user data?
I'd suggest using a tool like Packer to build a gold image based on your base AMI and all your changes. Then you'll have your own AMI you can launch new instances with.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Ganeti and Packer you can also consider the following projects:
oVirt - oVirt website
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
XenServer - XenCenter, the Windows management console for XenServer
cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo - A cloud-init datasource for VMware vSphere's GuestInfo interface
Otto
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
CloudStack - Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform