CLOSESTACK

CloseStack is a simple libvirt http wrapper. Written in Django.

What it Does

CloseStack allows you to manage KVM vms by HTTP API. It is suitable for the following scenarios:

1. Single Host Machine
2. Multiple Host Machines, but you do not want to deploy OpenStack
3. Simple VM Lifecycle(create, destroy, undefine only)

Requirements

• CentOS 7(other linux distros may work too)
• Python 3.6+
• Django 2.0+
• uwsgi 2.0
• jsonschema 2.6.0+
• libvirt-python 4.3.0+
• uhashring 1.1+

Conception

Installation

Let’s use Centos 7 as an example. (please help us to test on Ubuntu or other linux distros)

For the Controller

To install libvirt-python, we should install libvirt-devel and python-devel fisrt:

yum install -y libvirt-devel python-devel

Then download codes and install requirements(venv is recommended, and make sure all the following steps are executed in venv):

git clone https://github.com/pyajs/closestack.git
cd closestack
pip install -r requirements.txt

Install uwsgi:

pip install uwsgi

Modify configs in config.py(instruction included) and uwsgi.ini file.

Start the server with command:

uwsgi uwsgi.ini

For the nodes

Configuration

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