Virtualization (18)

• OpenStack Compute (nova) — nova 33.1.0.dev341 documentation (docs.openstack.org) reference
  OpenStack compute service for VMs and bare metal; needs Keystone, Glance, Neutron and Placement
  OpenStack Private Cloud #
• Welcome to Glance’s documentation! — glance 33.0.0.0b3.dev38 documentation (docs.openstack.org) reference
  OpenStack image service: registering, discovering and retrieving VM images, metadefs catalog
  OpenStack Private Cloud #
• Apache CloudStack | Apache CloudStack (cloudstack.apache.org) tool
  turnkey IaaS orchestration for large VM and bare-metal estates: networking, accounts, quotas, API
  Bare Metal Provisioning Private Cloud #
• OpenNebula: The Open Platform for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure (OpenNebula – Open Source Cloud & Edge Computing Platform) tool
  VMware replacement for private and edge clouds: hypervisor ops, HA, federation; paid subscription
  Commercial Support Private Cloud #
• Proxmox VE Documentation Index (pve.proxmox.com) reference
  admin guide, man pages and API viewer for Proxmox VE's KVM and LXC virtualisation
  Container Homelab #
• XCP-ng documentation | XCP-ng Documentation (docs.xcp-ng.org) reference
  Xen-based enterprise hypervisor, XenServer's open successor: host and pool admin, Packer/Terraform/Ansible
  Private Cloud #
• libvirt: The virtualization API (libvirt.org) tool
  C/Python/Perl/Go API and daemon driving KVM, QEMU, Xen, LXC, bhyve and ESX; XML schema docs
  System Administration #
• QEMU documentation - QEMU (qemu.org) reference
  docs index for the machine emulator and KVM hypervisor, mostly generated from the git tree
  Hardware #
• Documentation | Vagrant | HashiCorp Developer (Documentation | Vagrant | HashiCorp Developer) reference
  Vagrantfile-driven throwaway VMs: boxes, provisioners, synced folders, networking, box registry
  Configuration Management Infrastructure As Code #
• Oracle VirtualBox (virtualbox.org) tool
  x86_64 desktop-to-server type-2 hypervisor, GPL and free, Oracle-backed, also macOS/Windows on Arm
  Homelab #
• Packer documentation | Packer | HashiCorp Developer (Packer documentation | Packer | HashiCorp Developer) reference
  Builds identical golden machine images for many platforms from one template, plugin-driven
  Bare Metal Provisioning Infrastructure As Code #
• LPIC-3 Exam 305 Objectives (Linux Professional Institute (LPI)) reference
  objectives and topic weights for exam 305-300: full virtualization, container tech, cloud orchestration
  Certification Container Exam Objective #
• GitHub - crc-org/crc: CRC is a tool to help you run containers. It manages local VMs to run a OpenShift 4.x cluster, Microshift or Podman optimized for testing and development purposes (GitHub) repo
  upstream of OpenShift Local: local VM running single-node OpenShift, MicroShift or Podman
  Kubernetes OpenShift #
• Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system (Qubes OS) tool
  Compartmentalises work into Xen VMs, with Whonix for anonymity and room for a Windows guest
  Anonymity Distro Security Hardening #
• Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox) tool
  KVM hypervisor plus LXC containers under one web UI, with clustering, HA and software-defined storage
  Container Homelab #
• XCP-ng - XenServer Based, Community Powered (xcp-ng.org) tool
  Xen-based hypervisor with live VM migration, web Xen Orchestra management and a VMware migration path
  Homelab Self Hosting #
• Linux Containers - Incus - Introduction (linuxcontainers.org) reference
  Community-run LXD fork managing system containers and VMs side by side through one REST API and CLI
  Command Line Container #
• What is Docker? (Docker Documentation) reference
  Vendor explainer of containers as isolation and packaging units, plus the client/daemon platform around them
  Container #