Tool to manage Virtual Machines programatically using vagrant. It starts as a daemon, and listen to a certain port, which is 12121 by default. You can send it a variety of command via socket like
{
"command": "create",
"box": "ubuntu/trusty64",
"files": [],
"puppet": [],
"shell": [],
"network": "private",
"hostname": "dynamic"
}And this will create a box and return informaiton in format
{
"error": false,
"boxID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12"
}Now to start a VM at any instant send command
REQUEST to START a VM
{
"command": "start",
"boxID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12"
}
RESPONSE for STARTING a VM
{
"error": false,
"vmID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_1",
"boxID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12",
"box": "ubuntu/trusty64",
"IP": "192.168.33.12",
"hostname": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_1.example.com",
"message": "started VM ubuntu_trusty64_12_1 successfully"
}
REQUEST to STOP a VM
{
"command": "stop",
"vmID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_1"
}
RESPONSE for STOPPING a VM
{
"error": false,
"vmID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_1",
"boxID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12",
"message": "shutdown VM ubuntu_trusty64_12_1 successfully"
}In a similar fashion you can query information about any no of boxes or VMs at any time. It will send all required information about a VM in JSON format.
Request info on all active VMS
{
"command": "info",
"subcommand": "VM all"
}
Response
{
"error": "false",
"message": "listed information on 3 active VMs",
"VMS": [
{
"vmID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_1",
"boxID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12",
"box": "ubuntu/trusty64",
"IP": "192.168.33.12",
"hostname": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_1.example.com"
},
{
"vmID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_2",
"boxID": "ubuntu_trusty64_12",
"box": "ubuntu/trusty64",
"IP": "192.168.33.33",
"hostname": "ubuntu_trusty64_12_2.example.com"
},
{
"vmID": "ubuntu_presise64_3_1",
"boxID": "ubuntu_presise64_3",
"box": "ubuntu/presise64",
"IP": "192.168.33.15",
"hostname": "ubuntu_presise64_3_1.example.com"
}
]
}
You can also `destroy` or `halt` or `shutdown` all active VMs at once. Just send `destroy all` command or similar ones.###TODO
- Implement this daemon first
- Add complete testing for this daemon
- Create a python library, to programatically deal with this
- Create a php library to programatically deal with this