Steve Roles: CloudStack news

1. CloudStack European User Group
24 October 2019 – London
Steve Roles
CloudStack community member!
Twitter: @shapeblue

2.  Collaborative environment for:
 All things Apache CloudStack
 Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc.
 Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
 Case studies & user stories
 To showcase complementary technologies
 To share ideas & problems with other users
 Meet quarterly, usually in London
 LinkedIn group is only “membership database”
The aims of the CloudStack EUG

3. Thanks to today’s sponsors

4.  13:00 Welcome and CloudStack news – Steve Roles
 13:10 Cloud Management Portal - Admin View Andre Walter & Sebastian
Bretschneider (iTelligence)
 13:50 Running OpenShift Clusters in a Cloudstack Environment Sven Vogel (eWerk)
 14:30-14:45 Coffee break
 14:45 New stuff in CloudStack Andrija Panic (ShapeBlue)
 15:30 Our journey with CloudStack Graeme Wright, Smart Communications
 16:15 Storage based snapshots for KVM VMs in CloudStack Slavka Peleva (Storpool)
 17:00 Closing words (all together)
 17:30 Drinks
Today’s Agenda

5. • CloudStack European User Group
• CloudStack User Group Germany
• Geneva CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack - Romania
• Australian CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
• Japan CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter
• CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter
• CloudStack Pune Meetup
• CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group
• CloudStack NYC User Group
• CloudStack Boston User Group
• CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group
This group is one of many…

6. CloudStack News

7.  4.12.0 released (April)
 4.12 is not an LTS branch
 c. 200 commits, with multiple new features and fixes
 4.11.3 released (July)
 4.11.x is an LTS branch
 c. 50 fixes on top of the CloudStack 4.11.2.0 release
 4.13.0 released (September)
 4.13.x is an LTS branch
 c. 200 new features, enhancements and fixes since 4.12
 Winter 2019 LTS release (likely to be 4.14) coming soon…
Releases

8. 4.13
 Supporting configuration of virtualised appliances
 VMware 6.7 support
 Increased granularity & control of instance deployment
 Improvements in system VM performance
 Allow live migration of DPDK enabled instances
 More flexible UI branding

9. 4.14
 Kubernetes integration (plugin)
 Backup & Recovery framework
 VM Ingestion
 New system VM management API
 New, modern UI (Primate, just announced and demo’ed at
CCCNA19)

10. More details?
Listen to Andrija’s talk later!

11. C l i c k t o e d i t
* Recognised by Newsweek in their inaugural list of Best
Business Tools in the 'Cloud Services' category
* The recognition was for:
* Willingness to recommend the brand to colleagues
* Trustworthiness
* Reliability
* Fulfilment of service promise
* Continuous improvement
* Security
* https://www.newsweek.com/best-business-tools-
2019/cloud-services

12. CloudStack Events

13.  Next meeting of this group:
 January 2019, location TBC
 Registration open soon
 CFP: speakers required
CloudStack European User Group

14. CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2019

15. CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2019
* Fantastic turnout (ApacheCon report 2nd highest ever registration)
* New UI announced and demo’ed
* All (well, 21/24) talks recorded and available here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2OcwpQkYCyONTMOg3tAcphtgCVOHcW1
* Short promotional video created: https://youtu.be/k3uD69fajCU

16.  Get your organisation to be public about their use of ACS
 Get on the “known user” list*
 Offer to do a case study with PMC/ASF
 Go and talk about it !
*Known user list: http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html
Specific calls to action

17. Our first speaker(s)
 Andre Walter & Sebastian Bretschneider (iTelligence)
 Cloud Management Portal - Admin View