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illumos zone manager

Zcage - An Illumos zone manager

This project has been deprecated, please take a look at zadm

Zcage is a zone manager for Illumos written in nodejs, is inspired by FreeBSD's iocage and SmartOS's vmadm, combining some of the best features of Illumos, like crossbow and zones to create secure containers.
It's intended to be easy to use with simple command syntax.

FEATURES:

  • Easy to use
  • Rapid thin provisioning within seconds
  • Virtual networking
  • Resource control
  • Exclusive IP networking by default
  • Support for brands sparse, ipkg, lipkg, bhyve, kvm and lx.
  • Import docker images to create lx branded zones
  • Import cloud-init images to be used by bhyve or kvm.

Demo

asciicast

Documentation:


Quickstart
Install
Basic usage
Networking
Brand types
Options available
Rest Api

Support

I can only work on this on my free time so any help to support this project is really appreciated.

ko-fi

It's also possible to support the project on Patreon