Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean • Hacker News Board

salesforce_wha wrote: post #2

So what is this? A project based off of openstack, a complete re-working of an openstack-like environment or something different?

A complete re-working - as OpenStack is too big if you're not a corporation with a very big infrastructure.

Re: Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean

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Post by Nowaker » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

GBiT wrote: post #3

Website offline, github page - https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick

https://www.virtkick.io/ works OK, but it seems you killed https://alpha.virtkick.io/ (our 128 GB hypervisor wasn't enough to handle load). https://demo.virtkick.io/ is a static HTML prototype to get familiar with planned features.

Re: Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean

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Post by davexunit » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

This is an awesome project! Thanks for choosing the AGPLv3!

I tried to create a VM on the demo site, and got a nice Ruby error message next to the VM's name on the 'Machines' page: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass

Still, I'm very excited about this!

If anyone from the project reads this: Where is the appropriate place to request support for an additional GNU/Linux distribution? I would love to get GNU Guix running on this.

Edit: It seems that I have jumped the gun with my enthusiasm for this project. They will be selling proprietary re-licensed versions as a reward and require copyright assignment for contributions.

VirtKick, please reconsider your decision to require copyright assignment. I want my contributions to the free software community to remain free.

Re: Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

Nowaker wrote: post #5

salesforce_wha wrote: post #2

So what is this? A project based off of openstack, a complete re-working of an openstack-like environment or something different?

A complete re-working - as OpenStack is too big if you're not a corporation with a very big infrastructure.

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Re: Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean

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Post by Nowaker » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #7

This is an awesome project! Thanks for choosing the AGPLv3! I tried to create a VM on the demo site, and got a nice Ruby error message next to the VM's name on the 'Machines' page: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass Still, I'm very excited about this! If anyone from the project reads this: Where is the appropriate place to request support for an additional GNU/Linux distribution? I would love to get GNU Guix runni…

Sorry for that. The hypervisor died, which results in errors like this. We use Bugsnag so we've got all the stacktraces - we'll handle distasters. :)

Re: Show HN: VirtKick – Self-hosted Digital Ocean

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Post by warcode » Wed, Oct 29, 2014, 2:47 PM UTC

So just for clarity. I'll be able to download your source/package, install, go to the web interface and start spinning up VM instances on the same machine?

Are the extras like monitoring 3rd party integrations that I'll have to pay for, or actual features of VirtKick?