We are looking at bringing our apps back in-house and running them in some type of hypervisor on bare metal so I was curious as to what others are using? I know awhile back KVM was the way to go because it was in the mainline kernel but I believe that has changed and now XEN is pretty painless to get up and going. Docker is not an option sadly.
We are not looking to build a "cloud" or anything as most of our applications do not need architecture like that. Basically just a physical cluster we can deploy VMs to.
We do use consul for service discovery so we essentially just need some type of solution that allows us to hit an API (or run a command locally) that will fire up a pre-defined virtual machine on one of our various servers. Performance of the virtual machines is our top priority with ease of management being a close second.
Currently we use salt which appears to have good support for working with KVM which is a major bonus but not something that ties us to KVM 100%
Anyone out there using barebones hypervisors in production who can share their experiences? Right now it honestly seems like a toss up from what I've been reading.
We are not looking to build a "cloud" or anything as most of our applications do not need architecture like that. Basically just a physical cluster we can deploy VMs to. We do use consul for service discovery so we essentially just need some type of solution that allows us to hit an API (or run a command locally) that will fire up a pre-defined virtual machine on one of our various servers. Performance of the virtual machines is our top priority with ease of management being a close second.
Currently we use salt which appears to have good support for working with KVM which is a major bonus but not something that ties us to KVM 100%
Anyone out there using barebones hypervisors in production who can share their experiences? Right now it honestly seems like a toss up from what I've been reading.