Maimok

A web interface for virtual machines running on KVM/libvirt written in Go and Vue.js

Features

• Create virtual machines from base images supporting cloud-init (currently, only Ubuntu based images are tested and supported)
• Configure RAM and disk space on creation
• Setup network inside VM: IP address, netmask, gateway
• Create user sysadmin with sudo permissions (without password)
• Inject ssh keys into VM (sysadmin user)
• Set hostname of VM
• Install all updates on first bootup
• Install all apt upgrades and reboot VM at 04:00 if necessary (unattended-upgrades)

Tested with base images from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/.

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Setup

• On the virtual machine host, install KVM and libvirtd.
• Download a base image (e.g. https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img) and move it to /var/lib/libvirt/images/
• Clone this repo to the machine that should run maimok (can be the virtual machine host)
• Install docker and docker-compose
• Build docker image: docker build . -t maimok
• Copy and modify one of the docker-compose example files in the examples/ directories
• Start the docker container with docker-compose up -d

Development

Backend

The REST API backend is written in Go using the chi router. To start hacking on the backend:

• Install Go
• Create a config.toml file from the provided example-config.toml file
• Run the backend with go run main.go

Frontend

The web frontend is a TypeScript SPA using Vue.js and the Vuetify.js component frameowrk.

• Install a current version of node.js, npm and yarn
• Install dependencies: yarn
• Run the development server: yarn serve