Description

Cluster Wizard Project aims to provide an Internal Development Platform as a Self-Service Platform.

Cluster Wizard team has been developing a product family to facilitate achieving this goal.

• Cluster-Wizard
• Node-Wizard
• Wizard-Client WebUI (Web Interface for Cluster Wizard)
• Wizard-Client (CLI) (Command-line Interface for Cluster Wizard)
• Node-Client WebUI
• Node-Client (CLI)

They are the cornerstone for building a robust and secure infrastructure for platform engineering as well as application development/deployment.

Cluster Wizard

Cluster-Wizard is a control plane for

• Complete VM (Virtual Machine) life-cycle management across multiple hosts
• Host network management for multiple hosts
• User management with authentification through mTLS (Mutual TLS)
• Assignment of VMs and hosts to users
• Full Support for Ceph block storage for VM images including snapshots and clone

Cluster-Wizard will be deployed on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm Chart. The detailed steps are described in Cluster-Wizard installation guide.

There are two types of client interfaces: WebUI and CLI.

The WebUI will be deployed on a Kubernetes using a Helm chart. The deployment steps are available in Wizard-Client WebUI installation guide.

Installers for the CLI client can be downloaded in Download Page and an installation guide is available as well.

Node Wizard

Node-Wizard is a worker processor that needs to be installed on each hosts.

It acts as an agent for Cluster-Wizard. It can also be accessed directly using Node-Client (CLI/WebUI).

• Complete VM (Virtual Machine) life-cycle management
  • List VMs
  • Create/Delete VMs
  • Start/Shutdown/Destroy VMs
  • Attach/Detach disks, network and PCI devices
  • Create/Delete/Rollback-to local snapshots
  • Create templates and clones
  • Allow VNC access and Domain XML information
• VM Auto-installation for Ubuntu, RedHat, Rocky, SUSE Linux and Windows servers
• PCI device pass-through for HPC clusters (GPUs, High-speed network, and PCI storage device)
• Network device management for VM network: creating and deleting bridges, VLAN and VXLAN devices

Node-Wizard will be installed on each KVM host as a system service. The installers can be downloaded from Download Page. Node-Client CLI can be found in the page as well. Installation guide for these software packages are available: Node-Wizard Installation and Node-Client Installation.

Node-Client WebUI can be deployed on a Kubernetes cluster. A detailed explanation on deployment can be found at Node-Client WebUI Deployment.