Another alpha of VirtKick - a simple VPS panel

Nowaker

Hey guys, happy to announce another alpha, give it a try: https://alpha.virtkick.io/

The previous version wasn't reliable enough - I just didn't expect that amount of traffic. ;-) This version addresses performance problems and adds a responsive interface. Hope you like it.

For those who haven't yet heard of VirtKick, just have a look https://www.virtkick.io/. In a nut-shell: free, open source, with features for VPS providers. Beta testers needed, sign up on the website.

Caveman122

Your emails are landing in (gmail) spam by the way.

Nowaker

@Caveman122 said:
Your emails are landing in (gmail) spam by the way.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll check in MailChimp reports whether e-mail open rate for Gmail is significantly lower than for other providers.

MSPNick

@Nowaker said:
Hey guys, happy to announce another alpha, give it a try: https://alpha.virtkick.io/

The previous version wasn't reliable enough - I just didn't expect that amount of traffic. ;-) This version addresses performance problems and adds a responsive interface. Hope you like it.

For those who haven't yet heard of VirtKick, just have a look https://www.virtkick.io/. In a nut-shell: free, open source, with features for VPS providers. Beta testers needed, sign up on the website.

Hey! This is very nice, and very good work to you! Please make the console in a new browser though, that'll be pretty sweet.

SpeedBus

For the console:

• The console page tries to load a .js file via non-HTTPS which needs the user to manually allow the .js file to be loaded (Running latest chrome here)
• Add in an error message if the VM isnt running if the user goes to the console or a set of buttons which allows the user to boot it up or completely hide the console tab if the VM isnt running.

Nowaker

@MSPNick said:
Hey! This is very nice, and very good work to you! Please make the console in a new browser though, that'll be pretty sweet.

This will be even better! Wojtek is improving this screen. Have a look: https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-prototype/pull/4

MSPNick

@Nowaker said:
This will be even better! Wojtek is improving this screen. Have a look: https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-prototype/pull/4

Good work! :-)

Nowaker

@SpeedBus said:
For the console:

The console page tries to load a .js file via non-HTTPS which needs the user to manually allow the .js file to be loaded (Running latest chrome here)
Add in an error message if the VM isnt running if the user goes to the console or a set of buttons which allows the user to boot it up or completely hide the console tab if the VM isnt running.

Yeah, I know. The first a noVNC issue, but I didn't yet have a time to debug their code. (It's their bug as this happens on their demo website too; and it doesn't on some older version)

Regarding the latter, I'll do that soon. We planned that Rush (yep, we've got a new team member) will rewrite the machine view in AngularJS in a month, but this is kinda small thing so l'll get it done real quick.

SpeedBus

Nowaker said: Yeah, I know. The first a noVNC issue, but I didn't yet have a time to debug their code. (It's their bug as this happens on their demo website too; and it doesn't on some older version)

Regarding the latter, I'll do that soon. We planned that Rush (yep, we've got a new team member) will rewrite the machine view in AngularJS in a month, but this is kinda small thing so l'll get it done real quick.

Sounds good, looks pretty neat so far

robinjoo1

wow love it more and more

Nowaker

@robinjoo1 said:
wow love it more and more

Thanks. :-)

lifehome

FYI, the danger zone doesn't make me feels "danger"...

QuadraNet_Adam

Looks great!

Nowaker

@lifehome said:
FYI, the danger zone doesn't make me feels "danger"...

Me either. Have a look how it's going to look like soon. https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-prototype/pull/3

@QuadraNet_Adam said:
Looks great!

Thanks!

akz

looks very good and promising

MikePT

I have been supporting virtkick, as I really feel we need a SolusVM competitor, in this case, OpenSource.

The design is beautiful and Nowaker ensures that we're able to contribute towards the project.
Both suggesting and uploading code, if you've something usefull.

I'm in their IRC channel and I barely notice Nowaker sleeping. I'm proud of this panel and will keep supporting it, doing my best.
I have been quite busy, otherwise, I'd have been posting about virtkick. You barely see such panels, efficient, fast and secure. Updated every damn day. I have a demo server which has been running flawless.
I'm looking forward to see a great product coming! Thank you for being working so much on it, Nowaker!

Nowaker

@MrGeneral said:
I'm in their IRC channel and I barely notice Nowaker sleeping.

Well, that's true. ;-)

Thanks for your support, MrGeneral.

Oakenfold

Wao! Looks very good!... +1 !

tomsfarm

@Nowaker

There is a problem if you click create VPS several times it will display a error about the virtual machine already existing. and then it will allow you to change the letter and do it again resulting in someone very easily being able to Abuse it.

Not sure if it is a major issue or not just thought I would let you know.

Nowaker

@clamhost said:
There is a problem if you click create VPS several times it will display a error about the virtual machine already existing.

Oh, and yet the machine is already queued for creation! Good catch. I have to disable the create button after it's clicked so the form isn't submitted twice. Thanks!

(Don't understand the part about abuse though - there's nothing to abuse here )

tomsfarm

@Nowaker said:
(Don't understand the part about abuse though - there's nothing to abuse here )

Wouldn't someone creating 100's of VPS in a short amount of time cause problems?

Nowaker

@clamhost said:
Wouldn't someone creating 100s of VPS in a short amount of time cause a problem?

OK, I can hear you now. Well, it should survive. But if somebody wants to DoS it, they will find a way to do it. I'm happy it wasn't abused so far.

tomsfarm

@Nowaker said:
OK, I can hear you now. Well, it should survive. But if somebody wants to DoS it, they will find a way to do it. I'm happy it wasn't abused so far.

Since you are utilizing KVM for VirtKick is there any future plan to Implement cgroups with per package defaults for the cgroup configurations we asked SolusVM for something similar in the past but they never got around to it.

Nowaker

clamhost said: Since you are utilizing KVM for VirtKick is there any future plan to Implement cgroups ?

Just very simple bits, but yes. Obiously, this will be configurable by the admin only. At this moment you'd just set it in libvirt domain XML template: https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick-webapp/blob/master/app/models/wvm/new_machine.xml.slim

Nowaker

@MSPNick said:
Hey! This is very nice, and very good work to you! Please make the console in a new browser though, that'll be pretty sweet.

Wojtek finished the console view in the prototype. It will land in 0.3.alpha. :-) https://demo.virtkick.io/machine.html#console

MSPNick

@Nowaker said:
Wojtek finished the console view in the prototype. It will land in 0.3.alpha. :-) https://demo.virtkick.io/machine.html#console

I can't wait to see this.

ehab

thanks for sharing, i am already looking up the git repo and maybe try.

Nowaker

@ehab said:
thanks for sharing, i am already looking up the git repo and maybe try.

You'll find it extremely hard to deploy at this point. There are too many things to do manually, some of which undocumented. We're currently working on it, so 0.3.alpha is user-installable with little effort.

Nowaker

@clamhost said: There is a problem if you click create VPS several times it will display a error about the virtual machine already existing.

Thanks again - fixed in git, will land in 0.3.alpha. https://github.com/virtkick/virtkick/issues/40

Giordano

This is really a panel for the modern internet. Everything is there and it looks like it should be there. No clutter. +1

Nowaker

Thanks @Giordano!