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Ganeti - Virtual Servers Management Tool from Google

19 points by vijaydev 17y ago

wmf 17y ago
Please allow me to rant about Google Code for a minute. 1. It's hard to tell which projects are official Google projects and which aren't. 2. The total lack of real names is disturbing to me. e.g. look at http://code.google.com/u/imsnah/ http://code.google.com/u/imsnah/ -- it's completely useless.
- litewulf 17y ago
  I would like to think that Google Code really should not call out whether a project is an official Google project. Ideally all open source projects would live and die on their own merits.
- kobs 17y ago
  1. Official Google projects have the "Google" label. http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google
  - blasdel 17y ago
    Not quite: projects written by Googlers have the 'Google' label, which is unusable by normals. Official Google products are not hosted as normal 'projects': the URLs are code.google.com/product or code.google.com/apis/product instead of code.google.com/p/project.
    - kobs 17y ago
      I stand corrected.
aaronsw 17y ago
Anyone know what Google uses this for?
- litewulf 17y ago
  Running virtual machines on hardware? I mean thats pretty much what ganeti provides right?
  - wmf 17y ago
    But Google says they don't use virtualization.
    - blasdel 17y ago
      They don't use virtualization for any of their normal infrastructure -- it's much more productive to have locality with GFS/BigTable/memcache/App/etc all running in the same OS image on every machine. I do see them having plenty of use for virtualization when provisioning machines to run non-infrastructure, their client software, other people's software, etc. Its usefulness for software testing should be obvious. I don't know if they use full x86 virt. for it, but your App Engine processes have several layers of OS sandboxing around them.
- easp 17y ago
  I'm not sure why I think this, but I had them impression that they use it for test environments, but I'm pretty sure they also use it to provide "cloud" desktops for employees, I think I saw reference to it in a presentation about the open source NX server they released a little while ago.
easp 17y ago
I've been using this at work to rebuild our internal infrastructure for test, file serving, etc. I was intrigued by its ability to manage disk redundancy via DRDB, though I haven't really tested the instance failover features. So far, I've been focused on getting it working nicely for Ubuntu guests. It's pretty cool to bring up a fresh machine with the latest packages in a few minutes. It'll really come in handy when I start working through configuration management and deployment automation for our apps.

19 points by vijaydev 17y ago

wmf 17y ago

Please allow me to rant about Google Code for a minute. 1. It's hard to tell which projects are official Google projects and which aren't. 2. The total lack of real names is disturbing to me. e.g. look at http://code.google.com/u/imsnah/ http://code.google.com/u/imsnah/ -- it's completely useless.

litewulf 17y ago
I would like to think that Google Code really should not call out whether a project is an official Google project. Ideally all open source projects would live and die on their own merits.
kobs 17y ago
1. Official Google projects have the "Google" label. http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Google
- blasdel 17y ago
  Not quite: projects written by Googlers have the 'Google' label, which is unusable by normals. Official Google products are not hosted as normal 'projects': the URLs are code.google.com/product or code.google.com/apis/product instead of code.google.com/p/project.
  - kobs 17y ago
    I stand corrected.

aaronsw 17y ago

Anyone know what Google uses this for?

litewulf 17y ago
Running virtual machines on hardware? I mean thats pretty much what ganeti provides right?
- wmf 17y ago
  But Google says they don't use virtualization.
  - blasdel 17y ago
    They don't use virtualization for any of their normal infrastructure -- it's much more productive to have locality with GFS/BigTable/memcache/App/etc all running in the same OS image on every machine. I do see them having plenty of use for virtualization when provisioning machines to run non-infrastructure, their client software, other people's software, etc. Its usefulness for software testing should be obvious. I don't know if they use full x86 virt. for it, but your App Engine processes have several layers of OS sandboxing around them.
easp 17y ago
I'm not sure why I think this, but I had them impression that they use it for test environments, but I'm pretty sure they also use it to provide "cloud" desktops for employees, I think I saw reference to it in a presentation about the open source NX server they released a little while ago.

easp 17y ago

I've been using this at work to rebuild our internal infrastructure for test, file serving, etc. I was intrigued by its ability to manage disk redundancy via DRDB, though I haven't really tested the instance failover features. So far, I've been focused on getting it working nicely for Ubuntu guests. It's pretty cool to bring up a fresh machine with the latest packages in a few minutes. It'll really come in handy when I start working through configuration management and deployment automation for our apps.