ovanice

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Ovanice

Ovanice is a small service that hosts your Open Virtual Appliance-files. Ovanice gives you the option to provide configuration options on request and will rewrite the .ova-file on the fly.

Download and usage

• Grab the latest binary from the releases page and run it in a directory containing ova-files:

./ovanice

• An inventory in JSON format is available at the /inventory-endpoint. Here piped to jq for clarity.

curl -s http://localhost:8080/inventory | jq
{
  "ova_files": [
    {
      "name": "minimal_test.ova",
      "virtual_hardware_items": [
        {
          "ElementName": "16 virtual CPU(s)",
          "Description": "Number of Virtual CPUs",
          "ResourceType": 3,
          "VirtualQuantity": 16,
          "param": "cores"
        },
        {
          "ElementName": "16384MB of memory",
          "Description": "Memory Size",
          "ResourceType": 4,
          "VirtualQuantity": 16,
          "param": "ram"
        }
      ],
      "example_request": "/ova_files/minimal_test.ova?cores=4&ram=2048"
    }
  ]
}

• Each item in the inventory provides an example request. A GET request to http://localhost:8080/ova_files/minimal_test.ova?cores=4&ram=2048 will return the minimal_test.ova appliance but rewritten to instead have 4 cores and 2GB RAM.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.