Name: vm
Owner: Rancher
Description: Package and Run Virtual Machines as Docker Containers
Created: 2015-04-11 07:37:50.0
Updated: 2018-05-21 14:21:28.0
Pushed: 2018-05-18 23:17:30.0
Size: 12252
Language: Go
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Package and run KVM images as Kubernetes pods, run at scale.
RancherVM allows you to create VMs that run inside of Kubernetes pods, called VM Pods. A VM pod looks and feels like a regular pod. Inside of each VM pod, however, is a container running a virtual machine instance. You can package any QEMU/KVM image as a Docker image, distribute it using any Docker registry such as DockerHub, and run it on RancherVM.
RancherVM extends the Kubernetes API with Custom Resource Definitions, or CRDs. Users define a VirtualMachine CRD specification detailing what base image, how much compute resources and what keypairs are authorized to open an SSH session. A Kubernetes controller creates VM pods as necessary to achieve the desired specification and reflects this in the VirtualMachine CRD status.
RancherVM comes with a Web UI for managing public keys, compute nodes, virtual machines and accessing the VNC console from a web browser.
Create a Kubernetes 1.8+ cluster and ensure KVM is installed on all nodes.
Follow the distribution-specific instructions to ensure KVM works. We only
require KVM to be enabled in the kernel. We do not need any user space tools
like qemu-kvm or libvirt. On Ubuntu 14.04, you can make sure KVM is enabled
by checking that both devices /dev/kvm and /dev/net/tun exist.
An easy way to run KVM on your Windows or Mac laptop is to use nested virtualization with VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion. Just enable “Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI” in VM settings.
Once you have Kubernetes and KVM both setup, deploy the system:
ctl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/vm/master/hack/deploy.yaml
To determine the Web UI address, query for the frontend service:
ctl get svc/ranchervm-frontend --namespace=ranchervm-system
This will return information on the frontend NodePort service similar to this:
TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
hervm-frontend NodePort 10.99.175.219 <none> 8000:32504/TCP 5h
Point your browser to http://<node_ip>:32504, replacing node_ip with the IP
address of any node in the cluster and 32504 with the external port you found
in the previous step.
You can create VM Pods through the Web UI or by creating Credential and VirtualMachine CRDs:
ctl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/vm/master/hack/example/credentials.yaml
ctl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rancher/vm/master/hack/example/virtualmachine.yaml
RancherVM is comprised of two Kubernetes controllers and a Web UI. Users may manage VM Pods using the UI, by making API calls to the REST server backend, or by directly creating/modifying CRDs.
You can find instructions on how to build images, including Windows images, in the RancherVM Images document.
The details of how RancherVM configures network for the VM Pod is documented in RancherVM Networking.
Just type make
RancherVM uses a modified version of noVNC at https://github.com/rancher/noVNC.