Turn your Windows desktops and servers into a local cloud.
Experience the evolution of virtual machines: With eryph, you don't just manage VMs - you breed catlets!
With eryph you can turn every Hyper-V host into a micro infrastructure as a service. Even your own desktop!
"Our vision is to give you the same flexibility and speed you know from cloud-based IaaS, but without the vendor lock-in and complexity of enterprise solutions like Openstack."
Forget pets vs. cattle - with eryph you join the growing community of catlet breeders. Give your VMs - er, catlets - the environment they need, protected and isolated when necessary to let them grow and learn.
A catlet is a close relative of a virtual computer.
Thanks to evolution, catlets inherit everything from their parent (catlets are unisexual) in the form of genes. As a catlet breeder, you only need to describe a suitable parent and any desired mutations, and you will receive an individual catlet with the desired characteristics.
Catlets love gene food - especially anything their parent eat. But they can also be fed their own food. The genes in the fodder tell the catlets who they are and how to behave - without any training! For example, if you feed a catlet the Fodder to be a database server, it will become one.
Gene food can also be further customized to the catlets taste (we call it 'variables').
As a catlet breeder, you are not alone. You can share your catlets as parent genes or your gene food on the eryph genepool with your team or the public. We also provide public genes to get you started. No parent that fits your needs? No problem, with eryph-packer we provide a tool to build your own catlets from scratch.
With eryph, you get the standardization benefits of containers and a reliable foundation for managing your infrastructure as code.
Eryph brings the core idea of containers - efficiency and reusability through standardization - to virtual machines. Using the concept of catlets defined from a hierarchy (genes), it is possible to build machines from layered configurations that can be reused.
Eryph is not terraform, but shares the infrastructure as code principles with terraform and similar tools. Almost everything in eryph can be expressed by configuration files and therefore can be managed like code with toolsets as git.
Eryph is built on top of widely used open source projects such as OpenVSwitch for virtual networking and cloud-init for bootstrapping. The hypervisor is simply Microsoft Hyper-V. But eryph brings all these pieces together into a unified solution that can scale to any size.