Sorted in alphabetically order.
Contents
API
Configuration management
Container management
- Docker: Docker inside VZ containers, Docker manage VZ containers via LibCT (see LibCT)
- Cobbler
- Webmin plugin
- Quattor - a system administration toolkit providing a powerful, portable, and modular set of tools for the automated installation, configuration, and management of clusters, farms, grids and clouds. See slides.
- Cloudmin - an UI built on top of Webmin for managing virtual systems, such as Xen, KVM and OpenVZ instances.
Images registry
Hosting automation
- OpenStack (available in Kilo release) Source
- Plesk (proprietary)
- Parallels Virtual Automation (proprietary)
Hosting offers
- Virtuozzo
- OpenVZ-based hosting
Monitoring
Maintenance (migration, backup)
- CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore in Userspace)
- Plan B - fast OpenVZ backups. Source code: https://github.com/gcoop-libre/plan-b. Slides "plan-b - fast OpenVZ backups".
Network
- Open vSwitch (OpenVZ requires patch)
OpenVZ-based Linux distros
Storage
- Odin Cloud Storage (proprietary, free use with limitation 100 Gb)
- ZFS, see also
Useful scripts
- OpenVZ shaper
- fastnetmon - fast DDoS analyzer with SFLOW/NETFLOW support
- ploop in userspace
- antidoto - Linux antimalware and antirootkit tool
- open_vestat - monitoring of CT load
- mkve - manage containers
- vzmem - pseudo-graphical tool which allows you to distribute physical memory among all VEs consistently
- vzfirewall - an extremely simple tool to configure opened ports and hosts for incoming connections in OpenVZ environment
- vzfailcnt - send OpenVZ failcnt changes over e-mail
- vzset - set barrier/limit for OpenVZ UBC option interactively
- vzenter - simple tool for system administrators which allows you to enter an OpenVZ container (vzctl enter) specifying a minimal noncontradictory part of its domain name