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I've been messing around with OpenVZ for the past few weeks and having a blast. I really liked Virtuozzo, its commercial sibling, and I find that OpenVZ lacks only the management tools available in Virtuozzo. Since I was going to be building quite a few VPSes on the host servers, I wrote some very simple shell scripts to automate the process, from the actual VPS creation to custom package installation, NIS and NFS mount configuration, and so forth. Also, I found that I wanted to be able to run several commands across all VPSes simultaneously, or in series, so there's a script that handles that.

I also decided that although the /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/$VPSID.mount and umount scripts are handy, in my case they would all be the same, so there's a global script for those that is run from a symlink. These were written for one specific purpose, but I imagine that there are others that could use these tools as a starting point at least, so have at it. You can download the tools here: ovztools-0.0.1.tgz

ovztools-0.0.1

This is a selection of simple bash-based OpenVZ tools, written to streamline VPS builds and configuration. They're written in bash for portability. They have been tested on Red Hat-based distributions such as Fedora and CentOS. Modifications will need to be made for other distributions.

Install

Simply place all of the scripts in a directory in your path, such as /usr/local/sbin. Then move the global.* scripts to /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts. You will need to modify variables in most of them to reflect your environment, and probably make significant modifications to vzsetup.sh.

Tools

mkvz - This script condenses the creation of a VPS into a few prompts for hostname, IP address and VPSID, then builds the VPS to spec, adding packages specified in the $packages variable as well as performing post-install work via the vzsetup.sh script, such as modifying files to provide for NIS authentication and configuring various NFS mounts.

vzsetup.sh - This is called from mkvz to perform various tasks within the new VPS, such as NIS setup and whatever else is needed.

vzdo - This script is used to run global commands across multiple VPSes, such as installing new packages to all VPSes via vzyum.

global.mount, global.umount - These scripts control all bind mounts to the VPSes when they're started and stopped. Rather than using a single script for each, these scripts are called via symbolic links in the /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts directory, such as 101.mount -> global.mount. The script parses out the VPS id from $0 and performs the requisite mount --bind operations. Originally written as a single script, I broke it into two for simplicity.

vzdomount - This script can be called manually to mount --bind and directories within a VPS.

As always, YMMV.

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