Capstan is a tool for rapidly building and running your application on OSv. Capstan is as simple and fast as using Docker for creating containers, but the result is a complete virtual machine image that will run on any hypervisor with OSv support.
- Run multiple VMs of an image as copy-on-write
- Linux, OS X, and Windows support
- Hypervisors:
- QEMU/KVM
- VirtualBox
- VMware Workstation and Fusion
- Cloud providers:
- Google Compute Engine
You can install Capstan either by downloading pre-built binaries or building it from sources.
You need to have a hypervisor such as QEMU/KVM or VirtualBox installed on your machine to run local OSv VMs.
If you want to build your own OSv images, you need QEMU installed.
On Fedora:
$ sudo yum install qemu-system-x86 qemu-img
On OS X:
$ brew install qemu
To run your OSv images on Google Compute Engine, you will need the gcutil utility, which is part of the Google Cloud SDK. Installation instructions are on the gcutil home page.
To install the binaries, make sure $HOME/bin is part of the PATH
environment variable and then download the capstan executable and place it
in $HOME/bin.
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudius-systems/capstan/master/scripts/download | bash
You need a working Go environment installed. See Go install instructions for how to do that. Go version 1.1 or later is required.
Make sure you have the GOPATH environment variable set to point to a
writable Go workspace such as $HOME/go.
To install Capstan, type:
$ go get github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan
This installs a capstan executable to your Go workspace so make sure your
PATH environment variable includes $GOPATH/bin.
For more detailed information, check out installation instructions on the wiki.
To update capstan to the latest version execute the following commands:
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan
$ git pull
$ ./installTo run OSv on default hypervisor which is QEMU/KVM, type:
$ capstan run cloudius/osv
To run OSv on VirtualBox, type:
$ capstan run -p vbox cloudius/osv
To port-forwarding OSv port 22 to Host port 10022, type:
$ capstan run -f "10022:22" cloudius/osv
To bridging OSv vNIC to Host bridge interface, type:
On Linux:
$ capstan run -n bridge cloudius/osv
On OS X with VirtualBox:
$ capstan run -n bridge -b <physical NIC name> cloudius/osv
To show a list of available remote images, type:
$ capstan search
To show a list of locally installed images, type:
$ capstan images
Check out the following example projects to get you going:
Capstan is distributed under the 3-clause BSD license.