Auto Scalability Feature

[Ravi Kumar]

Would like to find out if Auto Scalability feature for the Virtual Machines is there in the latest version of Proxmox, if a Cluster is formed using Proxmox.

If we want to start something similar to Digital Ocean using Proxmox, is it possible or not

Request you to give the answer or pointers in this direction

 

[Alwin]

There is no auto scaling, this can be implemented through the use of our api.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API

 

[Dan Nicolae]

There is a plugin for WHMCS for that. I have no ideea if and how it works. If there is someone on this forum that is using it, maybe could share some info.

 

[shantanu]

@Alwin

Having some sort of "autoscaling group" functionality would be a great addition to Proxmox.

Of course, to keep the semantics similar to a "cloud platform", what would be useful is to be able to create a VM/LXC from a remote image url.

I have home-grown scripts which download the image from an http server and then do a "qmrestore" locally.

Are there any plans to integrate this functionality of being able to deploy from an "http(s)" source planned?
(where the download and qmrestore equivalent would be done my PVE itself)

Regards,
Shantanu

 

[fab_space]

With different approaches and hopefully with the help of contributors.. some initial Proof of Concepts

Enjoy and contribute:
- https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/proxmox-lxc-autoscale
- https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/proxmox-vm-autoscale
- https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/proxmox-lxc-autoscale-ml
- https://github.com/fabriziosalmi/proxmox-cluster-balancer

 

[starttoaster]

@fab_space kudos on the interesting tools! I think what would be interesting for a VM autoscaler is actually more similar to AWS ASGs, which support horizontal scaling, provisioning of new virtual machines, and balancing them amongst a PVE datacenter's nodes. Your vertical autoscaler and cluster balancer seem to get a lot of the way towards that end, but not quite.