Hi all,
I've been working on a community side-project, autodeploy-web, and I'd love feedback + beta testers from people who run Veeam labs.
It's a single Docker container (the only host dependency) that bundles three workflows behind one web UI:
1. Customise a Veeam Software Appliance ISO — a web form on top of the autodeploy PowerShell script (kickstart/GRUB/MFA/license baked in). No PowerShell or WSL needed on your machine; the form's JSON round-trips with the script.
2. Deploy a whole topology — pick a layout (VSA, VSA + VIA proxy, VSA + hardened repo, HA pairs…), point it at a hypervisor, and it provisions the VMs and wires everything into the VSA over the B&R REST API: adds managed servers, registers proxies, creates hardened repositories, installs the license, builds the HA cluster, and can add S3 / node_exporter / syslog. Two boot modes: pre-customised ISO, or remote kickstart (it injects the GRUB command over the hypervisor console). Back-ends: Proxmox VE, Workstation & Hyper-V are validated; vSphere almost, Nutanix AHV and XCP-ng are implemented but need real-world testing.
3. Craft API — fill the same kind of form and it generates the exact, runnable REST wiring sequence as a PowerShell or curl script (token handling, session waits, certificate/fingerprint, license, S3, HA — auto-refreshing the token on expiry). Handy if you deploy appliances by hand but want the wiring scripted, or just to learn the VBR REST API.
What I'm after: beta testers — especially for the experimental hypervisors and the Deploy / Craft API flows — plus any feedback on real environments and edge cases.
It only work with VSA & VIA 13.1
Caveats: it's a lab tool with no authentication by design (so it must stay on a trusted LAN — never expose it to the internet), and it builds on top of autodeploy for all the ISO logic.
Open source under MIT.
Repo + docs: https://github.com/BaptisteTellier/autodeploy-web
Happy to answer questions here — and PRs / issues / "it broke on my setup" reports are very welcome. Thanks!
