VirtKick is a simple, open source orchestrator. Managing virtual machines or Docker containers has never been easier.

That's the VirtKick Starter. It will allow you to start using VirtKick with a single click.

This is a heavy work in progress and not yet one-click install. Don't judge - it will be improved! Please report an issue if you face any problems. We need your help to make it bullet-proof. Thanks! :-)

Most things are already handled by virtkick-start, you only need Git.

sudo apt-get install git

Over time we plan to add streamlined installation for other distros as well. General rule of thumb is to have a development environment (make, g++), libvirt and qemu. virtkick-starter will try to setup rest by itself.

1. git clone https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-starter.git
2. cd virtkick-starter
3. ./virtkick-start -dim

First start may take a couple of minutes due to download of various dependencies. It will ask for root password to setup things in setup/system.sh, as you may inspect. During run it will also download iso images to /home/virtkick/iso, make sure you have enough disk space left (~25 GB).

After everything is set up, open up http://localhost:3000/ and try out virtkick by creating a virtual machine or two. :) Happy hacking!

1. ./virtkick-start -dm

1. git pull
2. ./virtkick-start -dim

See ./virtkick-start -h for other options.

Some environment variables may be set to customize:

• PORT - reverse proxy listen port (defaults to 3000)
• RAILS_PORT - Rails web application listen port (defaults to 60000)
• WORKER_COUNT - number of background jobs workers (defaults to 2)
• NO_DOWNLOAD - skip download of iso files to /home/virtkick/iso

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Thanks!

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VirtKick, a simple orchestrator. Copyright (C) 2014 StratusHost Damian Nowak

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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