Cloud Native Virtual Machine

cnvm is a cloud native virtual machine. That is, a virtual machine that is as portable as a container.

This is very experimental. We are adding functionality all the time. Please help us make it better!

The Cloud Native VM platform allows you to deploy Virtual Machines that are:

• Vendor-Agnostic
• Cloud-Agnostic
• Agile (dynamic, fluid, etc.)
• Software Defined (compute, networking, storage, etc.)
• Persistent
• Identical
• Secure
• Open and Shared

Here's a video showing the mechanics in motion:

CNVM - Globetrotter Demo Video

Want to setup your own N-node test environment and play with it?

You will need:

• N number of Ubuntu 15.04 64bit hosts (Minimum of 2 - one master, one regular node)
  • They can live anywhere literally as long as they can see each other (details below)
• Internet access
• About 30 minutes of clock time

Let's Do It!:

1. Create N number of Ubuntu 15.04 vm's somewhere

   • They must be able to see each other over the network on port 22/tcp and 6783/tcp and 6783/udp

2. Pick a non-root username to use for the installation (in our example the username will be "user")

   • This user must be in the sudoers file
   • You need to generate (or use one that you already have) an ssh keypair and put the public key in each hosts ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file

3. Choose one of your machines to be the "master" node. This is the machine that you will launch the cnvm's from.

4. Log into the master node as "user" and execute:

   user@host1~$ wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/stlalpha/cnvm/footlocker-bootstrap.bash | sh

5. Follow the prompts. You will be logged out twice. Once after docker is installed to get you into the right groups and a second time after the bootstrap configuation is complete

6. When you log back in after docker bootstrap is installed - you will be prompted to answer whether or not this is the master node. Answer "y". It will then ask you to enter your targets. This is where you enter all of the nodes in your setup. If you only have two (your master and another) you enter them both here. If you have 5 (your master and 4 more) you enter all of those here. The format is one entry per line, and its username@host. In our example I enter:

   [email protected]
   [email protected]

7. The process will now install and configure the remaining software

8. While this is running, please log into each of the additional nodes as your user (again, in our example, "user") and execute:

   user@hostX~$ wget -qO- 'https://raw.github.com/stlalpha/cnvm/footlocker-bootstrap.bash | sh

9. Follow the prompts - you will be logged out twice. Once after docker is installed to get you into the right groups and a second time after the bootstrap configuation is complete

10. When you log back in after docker bootstrap is installed - you will be prompted to answer whether or not this is the master node. Answer "n"

11. The process will now install and configure the remaining software. This takes about 15 minutes per node. You can run them all in parallel if you would like.

12. When the process completes, it will log you out from both the master and any nodes.

13. When the master process has completed and all of the other nodes have completed - you are done with the build process, and ready to deploy your first cnvm.

14. Log back into the master node - and it will automatically launch the first cnvm. When completed, it will be available for connection at 10.100.101.111. From the master node:

    user@masternode~$ ssh [email protected]

    The password is 'password'

15. Open a second ssh session to the master node. And teleport (hot migrate) it to one of the other nodes. To do this simply:

    user@masternode~$ cd cnvm
    user@masternode~$ ./teleport.sh sneaker01.gonkulator.io user@targethost:/home/user/sneakers

• This will initiate a hot migration of the cnvm from the master node, to the target node you specified on the commandline.
• When this executes - your ssh session on the cnvm (10.100.101.111) will become unresponsive - but as soon as the action has completed, it will be responsive again as it has been migrated with all of its state to the target node!

16. Congratulations - you live-migrated a running cnvm!