💡 Summary
KCLI is a versatile tool for managing VMs across multiple cloud and virtualization platforms.
🎯 Target Audience
🤖 AI Roast: “This tool is like a Swiss Army knife for virtualization, but don’t expect it to fix your coffee machine.”
The tool executes shell commands and interacts with cloud services, posing risks of command injection and unauthorized access. Ensure proper input validation and use secure credentials management.
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Description
This tool is meant to interact with existing virtualization providers (libvirt, KubeVirt, oVirt, OpenStack, VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM cloud and Hcloud) and to easily deploy and customize VMs from cloud images.
You can also interact with those VMs (list, info, ssh, start, stop, delete, console, serialconsole, add/delete disk, add/delete nic, ...).
Furthermore, you can deploy VMs using predefined profiles, several at once using plan files or entire products for which plans were already created for you.
Refer to the documentation for more information
Quick Start
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karmab/kcli/main/install.sh | bash
Deploy your first vm with:
kcli create vm -i centos8stream myvm
kcli list vm
# wait 5-10 seconds for vm to grab an ip
kcli ssh myvm
kcli delete vm
What you can do
- Interact with all the virtualization providers using a single tool
- Declare all your objects (VM, containers, networks, ansible playbooks, ...) in a single yaml plan file with a simple syntax
- Customize a plan deployment using parameters and Jinja templating
- Adjust VMs from a plan (memory, CPU, flavor, disks and NICs) to match what's defined in the plans
- Inject all configuration with cloud-init/Ignition or the equivalent in cloud providers
- Use profiles to launch VMs with same hardware characteristics
- Launch a plan from an URL
- Share your plan or use existing ones from Github repo as products
- Use the existing plans to deploy Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, oVirt, kubevirt, ...
- Use the existing cloud images for each distribution
- Easily share private keys between your VMs
- Handle dns entries for the VMs
- Automatically subscribe your RHEL VMs
- Get a push button notification when a vm has finished its deployment
- Alternatively use web UI to do the same
Contributors
Copyright
Copyright 2017-2025 Karim Boumedhel
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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Pros
- Supports multiple virtualization providers.
- Allows for easy VM deployment and customization.
- Single tool for managing various cloud environments.
Cons
- May require learning curve for new users.
- Complexity can increase with advanced configurations.
- Limited documentation on some features.
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