Virtualisation

Currently, ShinySpace runs on Proxmox. Proxmox is a very handy tool to manage large numbers of virtual machines. The web-UI allows a quick overview of resource usage, and makes moving around VM's easy. 

Proxmox also comes with qemu, which includes a nice command-line interface for creating and configuring VMs. This CLI is used by Ansible to quickly create new VMs.

 

The hardware Proxmox runs on is an old gaming PC - the GPU was removed to save power, and with time some more RAM and a good SSD for the virtual machines was added.