CloudStack User Group welcome
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The document summarizes the agenda for the European CloudStack User Group meeting on October 23, 2014. It includes welcome remarks by Giles Sirett, chairman of the group. The agenda then lists presentations on using CloudStack at BT, CloudStack templates, building test CloudStack environments, and CloudStack storage evolution. It provides updates on recent CloudStack releases and news, including growing community and installation base. It discusses the goals of the user group and calls for members to get involved in discussions, help each other, and spread awareness of Apache CloudStack.
CloudStack User Group welcome
- 1. European CloudStack User Group Welcome - 23 October 2014 Giles Sirett Group Chairman giles.sirett@shapeblue.com Twitter: @ShapeBlue @GilesSirett
- 2. #WhoAmI ? CEO of ShapeBlue PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack Involved in Cloudstack for 3+ years Chairman of this group Recovering developer
- 3. Thanks to todays sponsors
- 4. Agenda 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 !
- 5. The aims of this group 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 !
- 6. CloudStack News… 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
- 7. 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
- 8. CloudStack News… 4.5 release in progress SAML2 support RVR refactoring Lots of other work 4.3.1 remains most commonly deployed build
- 9. CloudStack News… CloudMonkey 5.2.0 release Multiple server profiles Windows and Linux versions Authored by ShapeBlue
- 10. New repo hosting 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
- 11. CloudStack News… 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
- 12. CloudStack News….. Community continues to grow Meet-ups getting bigger 200+ active contributors, 7o+ organisations Now 72 86 96 committers
- 13. The good news…. Install base continues to grow 300+ known production deployments Anecdotal evidence of something changing….
- 14. Anecdotal evidence…. “Its now time to look at something else” 5 different CloudStack talks
- 16. Anecdotal Evidence At ShapeBlue Users asking “how can we get involved” Users asking for feature development / engineering
- 17. So, these guys leaving Citrix Becomes…. “Citrix Gate”
- 18. “Citrix Gate”
- 19. The points they missed 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
- 20. Eventually….. “Citrix Gate”
- 21. The bad news CitrixGate shows us that that is still a BIG problem with…. Awareness, awareness, awareness It IS being fixed Announcement end of November at Collab
- 22. CCCEU14 19-22 November,Budapest Schedule confirmed 64 different talks Workshops & training Day2: focus on use-case’s www.cloudstackcollab.org
- 23. Specific calls to action Let the community help you by joining a mailing list Help Be helped Get social #cloudstackworks
- 24. 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)
- 25. Laurence Forgiel BT Using CloudStack in BT research Next speaker..