virtigo: a control panel for your virtual machine cluster

There is no greater thrill for a linux sys admin than running your own cloud.

This is an attempt to make something that should:

• Maintain the master list of virtual machines that should be running at all times
• Work with a cluster of dom0 hypervisiors via libvirt and/or qemu
• Understand the cluster and autostart droplets that have failed
• Initiate and Handle all droplet events: start, stop, clone, migrate, etc
• Verify consistancy on the hypervisors
• Initiate and handle live migrations between hypervisors
• Talk to the hypervisors using only the virtigo daemon via protobuf
• Work in GUI mode (GTK/QT/etc) but ALSO the console (ncurses)
• GPL'd with the intent for use with homelab and personal hobbyists

Notes & Goals:

• Be super easy to use.
• Automatically map access to serial and graphical consoles
• Only temporarily generate libvirt XML files for virsh create
• This is intended for managing Virtual Machines, not for containers
• This often uses the DO nomenclature 'droplets' instead of 'virtual machines' or 'domU'
• Every droplet is considered hostile
• When possible, use protobuf
• Let security be handled externally at the socket layer with other tools
• Put network, cpu, etc stats in external tools
• Automatic live migration to decommission nodes
• Implement iptable rules via the virtigo daemon

Inspired by:

• kvm
• virt-manager
• golang
• the simplicity of the DO droplet control panel