Virtuozzo ecosystem

Sorted in alphabetically order.

Contents

API

• LibCT - Linux containers control plane.
• Parallels SDK - Parallels Virtualization SDK is a development kit used to create and integrate custom software solutions with Parallels Cloud Server. The SDK provides cross-platform ANSI C and Python APIs.
• LibVirt: there are two different drivers: driver with support of Parallels Hypervisor, works via Parallels SDK, and driver with support of OpenVZ containers.
• OpenVZ containers API for Ruby, sources

Configuration management

• Puppet module for legacy OpenVZ.
• Flexiant
• Ansible module for legacy OpenVZ.

CT/VM management

• Docker: Docker inside VZ containers, Docker manage VZ containers via LibCT (see LibCT)
• Cobbler - is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.
• Webmin plugin - is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix.
• 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.
• SolusVM (Solus Virtual Manager) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full OpenVZ, Linux KVM, Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support.
• Fabric - library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
• Archipel is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. It works using LibVirt, so you can easily use it with OpenVZ-legacy as well as Virtuozzo.
• Vagrant plugin - provider plugin for Vagrant. The provider integrates OpenVZ with the normal actions associated with vagrant including: up, ssh, halt, destroy.
• HyperVM - manage your entire server cluster from a single console. Free, Flexible and Open Source.

Images registry

• Bitnami (Virtuozzo only)
• Turnkey in Proxmox VE

Hosting automation

• OpenStack (available in Kilo release) Source
• Nova plugin for legacy OpenVZ. See also Launchpad.
• Plesk (proprietary)
• Parallels Virtual Automation (proprietary)
• OpenNebula - management platform

Hosting offers

• Virtuozzo
• OpenVZ-based hosting

Maintenance (migration, backup)

• CRIU (Checkpoint and Restore in Userspace) - software tool for Linux operating system. Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space.
• Plan B - fast OpenVZ backups. Source code: https://github.com/gcoop-libre/plan-b. Slides "plan-b - fast OpenVZ backups".
• KernelCare - rebootless kernel updates (OpenVZ and Virtuozzo).

Mobile apps (Android/iPhone)

• OpenVZ Remote iTunes Store

Monitoring

• Cacti - is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality.
• Munin - is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems.
• rrdtool
• Zabbix - enterprise-class monitoring solution for everyone.
• Nagios - is an open source computer system monitoring, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application.
• ctop - a lightweight top like monitor for linux CGroups with Docker, LXC and OpenVZ support.
• htop - interactive process viewer for Linux

Network

• Open vSwitch (OpenVZ requires patch)
• Shorewall - is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux.

OpenVZ-based Linux distros

• Cloud Linux - Linux distro providing LVE (Lightweight Virtual Environments).
• OWL (OpenWall Linux) - is a small security-enhanced Linux distribution for servers, appliances, and virtual appliances.
• Proxmox - provides an open source server virtualization management solution supporting both KVM and container-virtualization.
• XtreemOS - is a grid operating system based on Linux.
• OpenNode - lightweight bare-metal cloud OS combining Linux Containers and KVM full virtualization options into payload optimized solution. Source code
• ALT Linux supports OpenVZ kernel package and a quarterly-updated OpenVZ HN server installer as well as container templates and tools to make customized installers/templates.

PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)

• Jelastic - PaaS based on Virtuozzo containers.

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
• vzpbackup - backup for containers using ploop storage

See also

- OpenVZ Control_panels