Tamarin - Infrastructure as Code

Tamarin is a tool to provide Virtual Machines on any operating systems.

It was created initally to replace vagrant for the Mac M1, once the VirtualBox was not compatible with this new processor.

Installation on Mac

brew install qemu
python3 -m pip install tamarin-iac

How to use it

First you have to create a base image, like you do with any normal Linux installation:

tamarin image create debian -iso debian.iso

First create a file called inventory.yml

Example:

inventory:
    image: debian
    ssh-password: alisson
    ssh-user: root
    vms:
        - name: sandbox
          memory: 512
          port-forward:
          - '2222:22'

Then you can check your inventory using:

$ tamarin status

+-----------+---------+
| Name      | status  |
+-----------+---------+
| webserver | Stopped |
| database  | Stopped |
+-----------+---------+

Run your VM:

$ tamarin start
[+] Creating VM: webserver
[+] Setting up VM: webserver on port 4022
[!] Waiting port 4022 to be open
[+] VM Ready!
[+] Setting the hostname

Access via ssh:

(base) alissonmachado@Alissons-Air Tamarin % ssh root@localhost -p 4022
root@localhost's password: 

Linux webserver 5.10.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-1 (2022-01-18) x86_64
root@webserver:~#