manynodes

Manynodes allows you to quickly create many virtual Linux guests in a customized network on a local or remote KVM/libvirt host.

installation

Manynodes requires a recent version of Terraform, and the libvirt provider. Just run terraform init -upgrade from the terraform directory to install the provider.

Options

Manynodes allows you to customize the following aspects :

• how many nodes to create ;
• how many virtual cpus per node ;
• how much RAM per node ;
• the subnet address ;
• the (Linux) base image to create the guests from ;
• the disk size ;
• the second disk size ;
• a list of commands run at first boot ;
• a user name and a group, with password and an (optional) authorized public ssh key.

To customize these settings, create a terraform.tfvars file. An example file is provided.