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# PVC - The Parallel Virtual Cluster suite
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<img alt="Logo banner" src="https://git.bonifacelabs.ca/uploads/-/system/project/avatar/135/pvc_logo.png"/>
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<a href="https://github.com/parallelvirtualcluster/pvc"><img alt="License" src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/parallelvirtualcluster/pvc"/></a>
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<a href="https://github.com/parallelvirtualcluster/pvc/releases"><img alt="Release" src="https://img.shields.io/github/release-pre/parallelvirtualcluster/pvc"/></a>
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<a href="https://git.bonifacelabs.ca/parallelvirtualcluster/pvc/pipelines"><img alt="Pipeline Status" src="https://git.bonifacelabs.ca/parallelvirtualcluster/pvc/badges/master/pipeline.svg"/></a>
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<a href="https://parallelvirtualcluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest"><img alt="Documentation Status" src="https://readthedocs.org/projects/parallelvirtualcluster/badge/?version=latest"/></a>
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PVC is a suite of Python 3 tools to manage virtualized clusters. It provides a fully-functional private cloud based on four key principles:
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1. Be Free Software Forever (or Bust)
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2. Be Opinionated and Efficient and Pick The Best Software
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3. Be Scalable and Redundant but Not Hyperscale
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4. Be Simple To Use, Configure, and Maintain
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It is designed to be an administrator-friendly but extremely powerful and rich modern private cloud system, but without the feature bloat and complexity of tools like OpenStack. With PVC, an administrator can provision, manage, and update a cluster of dozens or more hypervisors running thousands of VMs using a simple CLI tool, HTTP API, or web interface. PVC is based entirely on Debian GNU/Linux and Free-and-Open-Source tools, providing the glue to bootstrap, provision and manage the cluster, then getting out of the administrators' way.
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Your cloud, the best way; just add physical servers.
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To get started with PVC, read the [Cluster Architecture document](/architecture/cluster), then see [Installing](/installing) for details on setting up a set of PVC nodes, using [`pvc-ansible`](/manuals/ansible) to configure and bootstrap a cluster, and managing it with the [`pvc` cli](/manuals/cli) or [HTTP API](/manuals/api). For details on the project, its motivation, and architectural details, see [the About page](/about).
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## Changelog
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#### v0.6
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Numerous improvements and bugfixes, full implementation of the provisioner, full implementation of the API CLI client (versus direct CLI client). This release is suitable for general use and is beta-quality software.
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#### v0.5
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First public release; fully implements the VM, network, and storage managers, the HTTP API, and the pvc-ansible framework for deploying and bootstrapping a cluster. This release is suitable for general use, though it is still alpha-quality software and should be expected to change significantly until 1.0 is released.
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#### v0.4
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Full implementation of virtual management and virtual networking functionality. Partial implementation of storage functionality.
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#### v0.3
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Basic implementation of virtual management functionality.
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