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Vagrant also kind-of fits the description, but I've been looking for an alternative due to it's libvirt support being iffy (the plugin breaks often or has issue
by dsp_person 3y ago
Vagrant also kind-of fits the description, but I've been looking for an alternative due to it's libvirt support being iffy (the plugin breaks often or has issues compared to the virtualbox provider, also not many official image providers).
Here's one option I came across recently that's pretty nice and simple, using virsh and cloud images, and making it easy to spin up a VM and ssh into it. [1]
One use case I'm looking for is to provision system images including ZFS pools/dataset, and not sharing the host kernel module.
[1] https://earlruby.org/2023/02/quickly-create-guest-vms-using-virsh-cloud-image-files-and-cloud-init/ https://earlruby.org/2023/02/quickly-create-guest-vms-using-...
- alexeldeib 3y agoI love the vagrant UX, I’d be thrilled to see a refresh for 2023. Box management is odd. Weaveworks ignite/footloose are also good but don’t quite scratch my itch. I think vagrant UX with ignite style kernel/rootfs as oci image is a nice flow.
- flanked-evergl 3y ago> Weaveworks ignite/footloose are also good but don’t quite scratch my itch. Are these still going? They seem a bit dead to me.
- alexeldeib 3y agothat’s my take too. At least for ignite, I think Lucas had to take time off for college. Not sure about footloose. I guess another reason I suggested a refresh ;) Firecracker and firectl themselves are maintained of course, but lower level.
- sureglymop 3y agoI also use cloud init and one can quickly (5 seconds) spin up VMs with it. I use virt-install which has command line options for the cloud init related files which makes everything very easy.