Using Puppet to automate management of KVM/libvirt VMs?

[Alex Scoble]

Hi All,

Is anyone here using Puppet to automate management (creation, spinup and provisioning) of VMs on KVM/libvirt hosts?

If so, how are you doing it? Are you using a particular module on GitHub?

Seems like there was a bunch of development done in this space in 2011 and then it just stopped.

Curious to know how people are dealing with this.

Thanks,

Alex

[Alex Scoble]

For instance, there's Carla Souza's module https://github.com/carlasouza/puppet-virt but it only handles provisioning VMs. It doesn't deal with end to end bare metal to running VMs configuration.

I'm currently planning on doing a bunch using erb xml files, virsh and hierafied parameters to fill in the gaps, but that seems a bit ugly and primitive.