Virt-deploy is a python library to standardize the deployment of virtual machines. It currently supports libvirt and takes advantage of virt-builder and virt-install to automate the creation of templates and instances.
usage: virt-deploy [-h] [-v]
{create,start,stop,delete,templates,address,ssh} ...
positional arguments:
{create,start,stop,delete,templates,address,ssh}
create create a new instance
start start an instance
stop stop an instance
delete delete an instance
templates list all the templates
address instance ip address
ssh connects to the instance
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
To create a new vm instance based on a fedora-21 template:
# virt-deploy create instance01 fedora-21
The fedora-21 template image will be downloaded (virt-builder), and prepared to be used (virt-sysprep). This is done only once when the template is used for the first time.
The instance is then created with some customization such as random root password and the hostname. All the information are then summarized when the creation is completed:
name: vm-test01-fedora-21-x86_64 root password: xxxxxxxxxx mac address: 52:54:00:xx:xx:xx hostname: vm-test01 ip address: 192.168.122.xxx
Virt-deploy uses the 'default' libvirt storage pool and network. Images are created in the pool path and hostnames and ip addresses are assigned and registered in the network definition.
At the moment the suggested procedure to build from sources is to produce rpms with the proper packages requirements (virt-builder and virt-install):
$ python setup.py sdist $ sudo dnf builddep virt-deploy.spec $ rpmbuild -ta dist/virt-deploy-<version>.tar.gz
If you're a yum user (centos and fedora < 21) then you should use yum instead of dnf:
$ sudo yum-builddep virt-deploy.spec