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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">What is this?</h3>
    <p>Clustvirt (work in progress name) aims to be the agnostic
    cluster controller for libvirtd. The server component is
    used to display both the WebUI and run the REST API used to
    control one to many libvirtd hosts to manage virual machines,
    LXC containers (through libvirtd), gather information about
    each host, and monitor each host.</p>
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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Project Goals</h4>
    <ul class="leading-relaxed list-image-accepted list-inside">
      <li class="accepted">Open source, currently on the MIT license</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Base OS Agnostic. If it can run libvirtd, this should be
      able to control it on some level</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Control the Virtual Machine life cycle
      on one or more libvirtd hosts</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Add clusting capabilities to libvirtd host,
      including;</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Migration of VMs</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Syncronizing secrets</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Syncronizing VLANs, bridges, host only
      networking</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Sharing HA storage availability</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Locking shared resources like disks</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Starting VMs marked for HA on another host
      when one goes down</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Manage a library of Cloud-init resources
      and templates to build new VMs quickly</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Local Storage management, including local
      directory, lvm, zfs (if installed)</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Advanced Storage management, such as Ceph,
      glusterfs, drbd, iscsi, nfs</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Storage syncronization of local disks
      between hosts (zfs snapshots, lvm snapshots, rsync)</li>
      <li class="notimpl">Backup scheduling, creation, restoration</li>
    </ul>
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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Stretch Goals</h3>
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      <li>Install the OS which libvirtd is running on</li>
      <li>Install/provision libvirtd on a host that does not have
      it installed</li>
      <li>Tools to move from one vendor to clustvirt/libvirtd</li>
      <li>VM templates for common aspects of VM creation and management,
      like appliances</li>
      <li>External tool access that can be used to manage things that
      are not managed here (cephadm dashboard, for instance)</li>
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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Reddit Requested Features</h3>
    <ul class="list-image-possible list-inside leading-relaxed">
      <li>Search/Filter on hosts/vms - @Lopsided_Speaker_553</li>
      <li>Balance on resource usage per host/Automattically migrate to
      least used host - @Lopsided_Speaker_553</li>
      <li>Support inter-vm only commmunication (VxLAN style)
      - @Lopsided_Speaker_553</li>
      <li>Deploy VMs using only API - @Lopsided_Speaker_553</li>
      <li>Well documented, first class API - @kasperlitheater</li>
      <li>Bootstrap service to configure a new server - @phatpappa_</li>
      <li>For the love of kitten, don't use XML as configuration files
      - @pascalbrax</li>
      <li>Expose the Cluster Manager functionalities as API - @raven2611</li>
      <li>CPU architecture awareness for migrations - @raven2611</li>
      <li>Inter VM Communications via VXLAN/EVPN - @raven2611</li>
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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Never Going to Happen</h3>
    <ul class="list-image-never list-inside leading-relaxed">
      <li>Kubernetes</li>
      <li>Application container management (docker, podman, etc)</li>
      <li>Become an OS</li>
      <li>Have a paywall</li>
      <li>Vendor lock-in</li>
      <li>Become a commercial entity (even indirectly)</li>
      <li>Anything that does not have an Open Source standard behind it</li>
      <li>Directly control a guest Operating System</li>
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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold">Why?</h3>
    <ul class="list-image-informational list-inside leading-relaxed">
      <li>Broadcom buying VMWare, and VMWare losing a free teir for
      homelabbers pissed me off</li>
      <li>Vendor lock-in pisses me off</li>
      <li>Even good open source Hyperconverged systems (Proxmox, as
      an example) exhibit a form of vendor lock-in</li>
      <li>Libvirt is terrific, has the functionality for everything
      those other providers do, but there really is not a
      great option for those dipping their toes into Open Source</li>
      <li>Its fun to build things that solve a need</li>
      <li>I really want to do it</li>
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    <h3 class="text-xl font-semibold border-b-2 border-voncount-800">Other notes</h3>
    <p>I recently created a <a href="http://redd.it/1bct15z"
    class="after:content-link after:w-3 after:h-3 after:inline-block
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    on reddit announcing that I was building this, and while the majority
    of responses were supportive, even offering features that may enhance
    what I originally set out to do, many responded with
    "Why do we need another one??"</p>
    
    <p>Besides the list above about why this exists, I wanted to clarify
    a few things those individuals did not seeem to get: This is not
    a rebuild of Proxmox, Cloudstack, VMWare, Harvester or any of
    the other "Hyper-converged/Single-solution/turnkey/Operating System"
    offerings out there. This will not take over your base operating system
    on your machine, just act as a cluster manager and interface to access
    the existing libvirtd instances on those machines, nor will it prescribe
    a set of requirements that make it hard to move your own infrastructure
    around.</p>
    
    <p>At the heart of this project is that I hate the enshitifiation of
    Open Source that has been going on, where its just another way to make
    money and control the eco system. RedHat tried to do it by locking
    down their source code, Proxmox does it by making sure anything you
    do on Proxmox is tied to Proxmox (no offense to Proxmox), and even
    Hashicorp, who I loved so dearly, changed from a pure Open Source
    licensing model to one that protects the business over the community.</p>
    
    <p>I will not let that happen here.</p>
    
    <p>This project will seek to use the Unix philosophy, of building off
    of existing standards, combining tools, and having one tool do one
    job well. This does not mean there will be one application for each
    aspect of the job, but that this application stack will manage Libvirtd
    well, and have individual and configurable paths to manage each sub-aspect
    of the libvirt stack. This stack will not create a Ceph cluster for you,
    it leaves you to do that. It will not even talk to a ceph cluster.
    It will, however, let you add that cluster via configuration options to
    define it as a storage pool that libvirt can use.</p>
    
    <p>If you want something that will allow you to use a single interface
    to create all sub aspects that can be used by libvirt
    (managing all firewall rules, creating a ceph cluster, etc.),
    use something like Proxmox which includes that builtin
    functionality. This isn't the stack for you.<p>
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