VirtIAC

Local "Infrastructure-as-code"-like for LibVirt

(And probably yet another unfinished project)

Status: Pre-Alpha

Example virtiac.json structure

See src/default.json

What can it do?

Not much really:

• Check if a domain exists
• List available domains
• Start an existing domain (if a virtiac.json is used, it will use ssh to forward ports to the host)
• Stop an existing domain (if possible, it will kill the ssh processes used to forward the ports to the host)
• SSH to an open domain (most of the times)
• "Undefining" a domain (deleting it)

What's half-working?

• Creating a domain from a virtiac.json spec file
  • It can define a machine and (via LibGuestFS) create a disk, but it can't do provisioning or unattended install.

What's missing?

Pretty much everything else:

• Editing a domain structure
• Auto-mount shared folders into guests (virtiofs)
• ... Lots more

Why not use virt-lightning?

Because it gets REALLY close to what I would want this kind of tool to do, but for some reason its commands are confusing when you come from other environments like Vagrant (vl up builds and starts machines like Vagrant, while vl down destroys all machines, I would expect it to stop machines instead).

Also because I want to learn something new.