CloudStack User Group welcome

European CloudStack User GroupWelcome - 23 October 2014

Giles SirettGroup Chairman

giles.sirett@shapeblue.comTwitter: @ShapeBlue

@GilesSirett

CEO of ShapeBlue

PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack

Involved in Cloudstack for 3+ years

Chairman of this group

Recovering developer

#WhoAmI ?

Thanks to todays sponsors

Welcome & CloudStack news roundup – Giles Sirett, ShapeBlue

(13:30-14:00)

Using CloudStack in BT research - Laurence Forgiel, BT (14:00-14:40)

CloudStack templates - Lucian-Paul Burlacu (14:40-15:20)

BREAK 15:20-15:40

Building simple Cloudstack test environments - Geoff Higginbottom,

ShapeBlue

CloudStack Storage Evolution – Andy Roberts, Solidfire

17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !

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 To give a strong voice for feedback to Apache

developer community No pitching !

The aims of this group

4.4.0 release GA 26 July 2014

Java version upgraded to Java 1.7 Support managed storage for root disks Root disk resize Per primary Storage OverProvisioning VMWare Support for DRS Region wide Guest networks and VPC Virtual Router Service Failure Alerting Distributed routing and network ACL with OVS plug-in Hyper-V support improvements Zone Wide Primary Store in Hyper-V VPC support on Hyper-V Storage Live-Migration support for Hyper-V

CloudStack News…

4.4.1 release GA yesterday Bug fix release mainly Improved Storage Management Virtual Private Cloud tiers can now span guest

networks across availability zones Support for VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler Improved Support for Hyper-V Zones, VPC and

Storage Migration

CloudStack News…

4.5 release in progress SAML2 support RVR refactoring Lots of other work

4.3.1 remains most commonly deployed build

CloudStack News…

CloudMonkey 5.2.0 release Multiple server profiles Windows and Linux versions Authored by ShapeBlue

CloudStack News…

ShapeBlue.com/packages Maintained by ShapeBlue, hosted by BT

(thanks guys) Upstream: official ACS releases Main: will include ShapeBlue patches*

Testing: Nightly build repository System VM templates

New repo hosting

Current push for complete change in development approach

Current: develop on master and then cut an unstable release branch.

Releases then go through Q&A, but development continues on master

Proposal to maintain a stable master, with development being merged into master

CloudStack News…

Community continues to grow Meet-ups getting

bigger 200+ active

contributors, 7o+ organisations

Now 72 86 96 committers

CloudStack News…..

Install base continues to grow 300+ known production deployments Anecdotal evidence of something changing….

The good news….

Anecdotal evidence….

“Its now time to look at something else”

5 different CloudStack talks

Anecdotal evidence…

At ShapeBlue Users asking “how can we get involved” Users asking for feature development /

engineering

Anecdotal Evidence

So, these guys leaving Citrix

Becomes….

“Citrix Gate”

“Citrix Gate”

CloudStack is an Apache project and has been for 2.5 years

Citrix are a big contributor but that’s down to c.40% now and continues to fall

NO organisation has standing in an ASF project CloudStack is overwhelmingly populated by users NOT ALL FOSS PROJECTS ARE DRIVEN BY VENDORS Everybody likes a good headline

The points they missed

Eventually…..

“Citrix Gate”

CitrixGate shows us that that is still a BIG problem with….

Awareness, awareness, awareness It IS being fixed Announcement end of November

at Collab

The bad news

19-22 November,Budapest

Schedule confirmed 64 different talks Workshops & training Day2: focus on use-

case’s www.cloudstackcollab.or

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Let the community help you by joining a mailing list Help Be helped

Get social #cloudstackworks

Specific calls to action

Does the world know your org runs Cloudstack ? Make sure they’re

public about their use Push for a case study Explain the benefits Be proud of ACS (they

are in Japan)

Specific calls to action

Laurence Forgiel

BT

Using CloudStack in BT

research

Next speaker..