Experimental virtual machine management system.
- Virtual machine creation and deletion
- Aware of SSH keys, VM images and networks
- Automatic image customization
- IPv4 address assignment, internet access as well as routable from the host machine
- Private IPv4 networks
- IPv6 address assignment
- Cross-node networking via VXLAN and dynamic peer resolution via l2miss, l3miss
- Aggregation mode with sox running on each node in a cluster, including draining and rebalancing nodes
- Advanced management of SSH keys and networks
- Advanced management of VM images, including creation of new images from running VMs
- Support for different users, projects and ACLs
The core idea is that sox exposes the same gRPC API, no matter if it's running on a single-node or in aggregation mode.
sox knows five core primitives: Machines, images, disks, networks and SSH keys. Machines are made out of their image, the attached networks and disks and configured SSH keys.
There is a global IP space every machine gets a single IPv4/IPv6 from.