introduction and cloudstack news
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CloudStack European User Group3 March 2016
Giles SirettChairman, CSEUG
[email protected]@Apache.org
Twitter: @gilesSirett
Thanks to today’s sponsors
Introduction & CloudStack news roundup, Giles Sirett (13:30-14:30) Improving CloudStack for Operators, Rohit Yadav (14:30-15:00) Containers and CloudStack, Sebastien Goasguen (15:00-15:30) BREAK 15:30-16:00 Using the KVM hypervisor in CloudStack, Dag Sonstebo (16:00-
16:30) Securing your Cloud Environment, Jon Noble (16:30-17:00) 17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !
Todays Agenda
Collaborative environment for: all things CloudStack Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc
Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice Case studies & ideas To showcase complementary technologies No pitching ! Membership “database” on LinkedIn
The aims of this group
How we fit in
Apache CloudStack
ProjectDevelopment, Governance &
decisionsCSEUU
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Cloudstack Silicon valley UG
CloudStack India
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CloudStack NYC
CloudStack Brasil
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Cloudstack Japan
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This group is one of many…
CloudStack news
Recent Releases
Release Date4.6 10 Nov 20164.6.1 30 Nov 20164.6.2 13 Dec 20164.7 13 Dec 20154.7.1 20 Jan 20164.8 20 Jan 2016
Improved SAML plugin & authentication framework Redundant Routers for VPC and VR refactoring UI: SSH keys and User-Data Send statistics collected by StatsCollector to Graphite Browser-based Template/Volume upload Run CloudStack inside Docker Deprecation of awsapi
4.6.x Release
Metrics Views for CloudStack UI Quota Service Affinity groups within projects Updates: VMware sdk 5.5, Niciri/Nuage plugin
updates, vCenter 6.0 support
4.7.x Release
Mainly bug fixes
4.8.x Release
Two types of CloudStack user…
Agile User• Embraces
devops• dev & ops
collaborate• automate test &
release• Emphasis on
cloud native apps
• Aspires to continually deliver
• Like to fail fast
“Less than Agile” user
• Risk adverse• Heavy with
change control• Traditional or
unknown workloads
• Stability always takes priorityRapid release
cycle LTS releases
Stable master Allows a release at any time
Increased release cadence Ultimately working towards removing fork-truck upgrades Suits more agile users
New release model
LTS branches cut every 6 months (Jan, July) 14 months patch backporting 20 months CVE/Security backporting The LTS Branches will AUGMENT the monthly
releases
Community LTS initiative
Out of band management (power management) Dynamic routed VPC (OSPF) Host HA with out-of-band management based
fencing Dynamic roles for role based access control
(RBAC) Strongswan based VPN/ipsec
Development On deck
Improve release principles Faster release LTS initiative CI automated & distributed testing
Community initiatives – on deck
Improve Marvin Support for Java 8 Migration to Spring 4.x Embedded Jetty Less painful and improved database and
CloudStack upgrades UI codebase improvements
In planning
One specific mention
29%
Ecosystem news
Schuberg Philis have decided to fork CloudStack for their own us
Welcome…… “Cosmic cloud”
Full details https://www.cupfighter.net/2016/01/welcome-mission-critical-cloud
Schuberg Philis
This was no surprise
Big deal ? – we loose 5% of commits
The Citrix strategy was incorrect from the beginning
Farewell to Citrix
Welcome Accelerite
CCCEU15 7-9th October - Dublin www.cloudstackcollab.or
g Presentation Videos https://
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6ruJrhXZ-jSSYw0m3WfK4ea
Videos now published…
CloudStack Collaboration conference
Sao Paulo – Brasil 29/30 Sept 2016
Hackathon & mini-conference in planning Montreal May 2016
Cloudstackcollab.org for updates
Upcoming conferences
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CloudStack Certification launched
Improving CloudStack for Operators
Rohit Yadav
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Specific calls to action
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