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> I don't think there is another notable, proven, open source clustered manager of both actual VMs and containers. Googles Ganeti is strikingly similar to Prox
by ymse 6y ago
> I don't think there is another notable, proven, open source clustered manager of both actual VMs and containers.
Googles Ganeti is strikingly similar to Proxmox, to the point where I suspect Proxmox started as a reimplementation:
http://www.ganeti.org/ http://www.ganeti.org/ (developed at https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti)
It does not come with a GUI, though there are a few third party ones. It has API endpoints for everything, a fully featured CLI client, and is extremely stable.
Googles marketing department does not want you to know this, but Ganeti runs most of its internal infrastructure (not public facing stuff).
No affiliation, just a happy user.
- tyingq 6y agoInteresting...they don't seem to market it well, I hadn't heard of it. Looks like it started in 2007, where Proxmox started in 2008. It doesn't seem to support containers though. Just Xen and KVM.
- ymse 6y agoLXC is supported too. Thanks for checking the dates, I thought Proxmox was newer.
- tlamponi 6y agoProxmox VE dev here. Honestly, heard of Ganeti the first time today. The basis of Proxmox VE is the real time replicated clustered configuration file system: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pmxcfs.html https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pmxcfs.html I do not see anything similar for ganeti, also not much similar in general besides that it manages VMs?
- polskibus 6y agoHi there! Are there any plans for Proxmox to support Firecracker (the Amazon's lightweight VM for containers).?
- ymse 6y agoHi, thanks for the link, very interesting. Indeed the similarity with Ganeti is only on the surface: being a scalable infrastructure management tool, DRBD as a first-class supported disk backend, etc. The cluster replication and consensus model is very different: Ganeti has a single "master" node that makes all the decisions and replicates cluster state to other nodes.