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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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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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Virtualbox 7.0.4 kickstart issue
However, I was unable to build the boxes with packer for some reason. It turned out that this wasn't an easy to fix or obvious issue. In fact, I had to search quite hard to find an answer. I am pretty sure my friend Tim Hall (oracle-base) ran into this issue too. Finally, I found a description of the issue on packer GitHub: Packer 1.8.4 not working with Virtualbox 7.0.4+ #12118.
I was building a new version of YugabyteDB vagrant box with packer and virtual box. Because we (Yugabyte) have a new preview release out.
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Is "development environment as code" a thing?
Packer. https://github.com/hashicorp/packer
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Dinamic Infrastructure
For an AMI build pipeline, have a look at Hashicorp Packer and Ansible if a host is long lived
- A practical approach to structuring Golang applications
oVirt
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VMware alternatives for a big environment (Hyper-V, Proxmox, KVM, Nutanix, Citrix?)
OVirt (the free version of RHEV) https://www.ovirt.org/ fits the bill for enterprisey environments
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VMware Alternatives?
Anyone have any experience with oVirt ?: https://www.ovirt.org/
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Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Or you can go open-source at varying levels of simplicity, from Proxmox to oVirt (probably closest to vSphere) to OpenStack.
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IT Pro Tuesday #180 - VoIP Analyzer, VPN Server, VM Solution & More
oVirt is an open-source, distributed virtualization solution for managing your whole enterprise infrastructure. Features include rich, web-based user interfaces; integrated management of hosts, storage and network configuration; live migration of virtual machines and disks between hosts and storage; and high availability of virtual machines in the event of host failure. needmorehardware offers a "big up for Ovirt, which is Redhat based."
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Simple private cloud solution
It's not fancy, but I've had a lot of success with oVirt. It's great if you just want simple VMs and it has good features for managing VMs across multiple hardware servers and using shared storage.
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Free Desktop Virtualization Solutions (preferably open-source) that work well like Amazon Workspaces or VMware Workstation. Any suggestions?
Given you need a free/open-source hypervisor, consider using oVirt on top of production servers and KVM/libvirt on your workstations. oVirt does the same job as VMware ESXi virtualizing your server. https://www.ovirt.org/
What are some alternatives?
OpenNebula - The open source Cloud & Edge Computing Platform bringing real freedom to your Enterprise Cloud 🚀
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
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.
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo - A cloud-init datasource for VMware vSphere's GuestInfo interface
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
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.
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
XenServer - XenCenter, the Windows management console for XenServer
Scaleway-cli - Command Line Interface for Scaleway