VirtKick is a simple, open source orchestrator. Managing virtual machines or Docker containers has never been easier.
That's the VirtKick web application. It provides a user interface and delegates virtualization-related tasks to the backend.
Report bugs and feature requests in virtkick meta-project.
All the user and admin documentation is there too.
- RVM
- Ruby 2.1 from RVM
- Linux or Mac
- virtkick-webvirtmgr-backend
rvm get stable
rvm install 2.1
rvm use 2.1 --default
gem install bundler
alias x='bundle exec'
x install
x rake db:migrate
In separate sessions:
x rails s
Run INLINE=1 x rails s to inline execute jobs instead of sending them to background.
x rake jobs:work
Now test with xdg-open http://0.0.0.0:3000/ # open a browser
x rails s -e production
x ./bin/delayed_job -n 5 start
Environment variables:
- SECRET_KEY_BASE
- DEVISE_SECRET_KEY
- BUGSNAG_API_KEY - optional for Bugsnag
Use pwgen -sn 128 or x rake secret to generate secret keys.
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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.
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