OSS Control Panel to manage FreeBSD jails ... ?

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Wed Jul 21 18:49:10 UTC 2010


About 6 years ago or so, we wrote an inhouse control panel to allow us to 
manage freebsd jails from a central gui ... although it works, its neither 
intuitive or pretty ... and is a nightmare to change ...

The features it does have is:

each client has 1 or more login ideas tot heir account
a client can have multiple jails assigned to them
   - front page has a summary of memory, storage and bandwidth usage
   - each VPS has their own detail screen that includes the above, as well
     as any virtual hosts that are running on it
   - new virtual machines can be requesetd
   - new virtual hosts can be added
   - mysql/pgsql databases can be added / deleted
all invoicing is performed automatically through the system
there is a support center for clients to post problems

what it doesn't do is dns or email management ... dns is modified 'by 
request', and email is a totally seperate, unintegrated inferface ...

I've tried DTC, and its a nice interface, but its more a 'seperate 
instance per VPS' vs centralized solution ... I don't want to have to log 
into multiple interfaces to deal with support issues, for instance .. but, 
at the same time, don't want to force a client to have two different 
interfaces to handle things ...

Does anyone have any suggestions on software that could replace this?  I 
don't want ot run VMWare, or any of the other virtualization software 
packages, I would like to stick, as much as possible, to a nice, clean, 
jail environment ...

Thoughts?

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