What’s New in CloudStack 4.15 - CloudStack European User Group Virtual, May 2021
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The document outlines the agenda for the CloudStack European User Group virtual meeting, featuring speakers discussing various topics such as the latest releases and feature updates in CloudStack. Key highlights include enhancements in the new UI, KVM high availability, and integration updates with tools like Ansible and Terraform. Additionally, it emphasizes community engagement through Q&A and social media interactions, with the potential to win prizes for participating.
What’s New in CloudStack 4.15 - CloudStack European User Group Virtual, May 2021
- 2. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack About Me • PMC member & Committer - Apache CloudStack • Chair –CloudStack European user group • CEO - ShapeBlue Giles.Sirett@shapeblue.com Giles@Apache.org @GilesSirett
- 3. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack • 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. The aims of the CloudStack EUG
- 4. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack 13:00 – 13:40 - Welcome + What’s New in CloudStack 4.15 - Giles Sirett 13:50 – 14:20 - Customising the New CloudStack UI - Abhishek Kumar 14:30 – 15:00 - KVM High Availability regardless of storage - Gabriel Brascher 15:10 – 15:40 - From metal to service 100% automation with Apache CloudStack and Ansible - Rafael del Valle 15:50 – 16:20 - CloudStack and Tungsten Fabric SDN Integration Update - Rado Todirica and Simon Weller 16:30 – 17:00 – Building lean CloudStack environments for the Edge, Rudraksh Kulshreshtha 17:00 – 18:00 – Virtual Beers and Talks ALL TIMES IN CEST Todays Agenda - CEST
- 5. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Virtual Pub 17:00-18:00 CEST http://bit.ly/CSEUGvirtual
- 6. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack For questions: • Use zoom group chat. Or • Use Zoom Question function To win one of 5 x EUR 500 Amazon Gift cards: • Tweet something about this event • include Hashtag • Best 5 tweets win • Ivet will decide the winners Questions, Chat and Prizes
- 7. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Thanks to today’s sponsors Thanks to Our Sponsors
- 8. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack • 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…
- 9. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack CloudStack Collaboration Conferences http://Cloudstackcollab.org
- 10. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Cloudstack Collaboration Conference-2021 • Q3 2021 • Will be an online event • Format currently being discussed
- 12. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack CloudStack News Since we last met …..
- 13. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack • 4.14 released May 2020 • 4.15 released Jan 2021 • 4.15.1 – RC about to be cut • 4.16 expected Q3/4 2021 Releases
- 16. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack GSoC projects Bikram Biswasi Multiple SSH key holding on CloudStack Sang Woo Bae synchronization of network devices on newly added hosts for Persistent Networks Apurv Gupta UX Enhancements Junxuan Wu cloning a VM
- 17. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack • Gabriel Bräscher is the new VP CloudStack • Thanks to Sven Vogel for his work • “Meet the Community” video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7trWbxZNmo New VP Apache CloudStack
- 18. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Current Term/Word New Term/Word master main or leader slave worker or member whitelist allowlist blacklist denylist he/she, him/her they/them/we /us or gender- neutral Inclusivity Work
- 19. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack • Demand for Terraform/ Cloudstack integration • Provider in process of being migrated into CloudStack project Terraform Provider
- 22. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack 4.15 Release Information • 13 new features • 59 enhancements • 128 bug fixes • 4.15 is an LTS release • Released 19 January 2021 • EOL Feb 2023
- 24. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack New UI at GA • New UI now at General Availability • Complete feature parity with old UI • 4.15 still ships with old UI • But, no new (4.15) functionality
- 25. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Old UI Deprecation • CloudStack 4.15 is the last version to ship with old UI • Old UI does not contain 4.15 functionality • Ships with formal deprecation notice • Old UI code will be removed at 4.16 release • “Project Primate” codename being dropped
- 27. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack New Added O.S. Support O.S. Management Server Hypervisor Hosts Centos 8 (KVM) Ubuntu 20.4 (KVM) XCP-ng 8.1 n/a
- 29. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Balance data among data stores (secondary storage pools) Complete migration of data Set a secondary storage unit to ‘read-only’ Allocation algorithm to automatically balance secondary storage pools –image.store.allocation.algorithm firstfitleastconsumed (was random) view download progress of templates across datastores Secondary Storage Management
- 30. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Migrate secondarystoragedata srcpool=<src_sec_stg> destpools=<array of dest stgs> migrationtype=<balance/complete> Complete migration Checks to see if destination is below threshold of 90% Balanced migration Evenly distributes objects between given data stores Global setting: image.store.imbalance.threshold – sets the ideal mean standarddeviation of the image stores. Default =0.3, defines “balanced” Linked Snapshots kept together Migrating Pools
- 31. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack secstorage.max.migrate.sessions – indicates the number of concurrent file transfer operations that can take place on an SSVM (defaults to 2) “max.data.migration.wait.time” (which defaults to 15 minutes), i.e., if a migrate job has been taking place for more than 15 mins then, a new SSVM is spawned and when it becomes active, then jobs begin to be scheduled on it. max.ssvm.count – maximum number of additional SSVMs that can be spawned up to handle the load. (defaults to 5). However, if the number of hosts is lesser than the max count set, then the count of the number of hosts takes precedence Performance and Scalability Controls
- 32. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Setting stores to read only update imagestore id=<uuid_of_imagestore> readonly=<true/false> • Secondary storage allocation algorithm improvements “image.store.allocation.algorithm” = firstfitleastconsumed or random Read Only Secondary Storage
- 34. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Vsphere Advanced Capabilities Datastores support o vSAN o VMFS6 o vVols o Datastore clusters vSphere storage policies support Allow inter cluster VM and volume migrations o Running VMs are now able to migrate along with disks using API migrateVirtualMachineWithVolume
- 35. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack How it does it? CloudStack VM/Volume actions use the high-level native APIs of vSphere (instead of low-level operations) create volume attach volume create snapshot from volume create template from volume clone VM
- 36. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack New Datastore Types • Use of native APIs gives support for additional types of vCenter datastore: VMFS6, vSAN and vVols • Protocol remains “presetup” when using the new non-NFS primary storage types. • CloudStack’s presentation of Datastore clusters abstracts the underlying datastores – in the same way as vCenter
- 37. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack vSphere Storage Policy Support • New APIs importVsphereStoragePolicies and listVsphereStoragePolicies are introduced to manage vSphere storage policies • Storage Policies are fetched and updated a new vSphere datacenter is added or on demand • Existing APIs “createDiskOffering” and “createServiceOffering” are modified to bind the “storagepolicy” to the offerings • On deploying VM, vCenter returns datastores matching the policy, which CloudStack uses a filter before applying its own algorithms
- 38. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Inter-cluster VM and Volume Migrations • Running VMs can be live migrated with all of their volumes to another other cluster. Without the need for zone-wide storage. • Stopped VMs migrated with all of their volumes to another other cluster. Without the need for zone-wide storage, and with passing through secondary storage. • Inter-cluster migrations continues to Use the existing migrateVirtualMachineWithVolume API, giving a seamless upgrade in capability.
- 40. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Full OVF Support • Allows easy deployment of vendor appliances based on OVA containing: • Disc image(s) • Initial configuration parameters for the virtual appliance • Licensing / EULA acceptance • VMware only feature • Import an OVA with custom properties, as if the VM had been deployed directly through vCenter
- 41. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack vSphere Template Registration • ‘deploy-as-is’ option added to ‘RegisterTemplate’ API • Cloudstack reads & stores custom properties from the OVF descriptor before completing registration • Properties are stored as JSON in the 'template_deploy_as_is_details’ table: • configurations • network requirements & interfaces • properties • end-user license agreements • The user is no longer required to specify the guest OS type, root disk controller, etc; Which they may not know or if wrong, may ‘break’ the deployed VM. The OVF is the canonical ‘source of truth’
- 42. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Changes to Deploy VM Wizard • VM deployment wizard identifies when a “deploy-as-is” template is selected. • The required inputs (and sections) from the OVF descriptor are displayed in the UI wizard • For example; Hardware configurations mapped to compute offerings
- 43. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Changes to Deploy VM Wizard Where defined, networking information is pre- populated from the OVF And vNIC positions in the VM are maintained
- 44. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Changes to Deploy VM Wizard (Single VM) vApp custom properties presentation:
- 45. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Changes to Deploy VM Wizard License Agreement / EULA presentation
- 47. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Dynamic Roles Improvements • Import/export roles CSV format • Create a new role from an existing role • Additional default Roles •Read Only Admin •Read Only User •Support Admin •Support User
- 48. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack New Default Roles • Read-Only Admin : an admin role in which an account is only allowed to perform any list/get/find APIs but not perform any other operation or changes to the infrastructure, configuration or user resources. • Read-Only User: a user role in which an account is only allowed to perform list/get/find APIs who may only be interested in monitoring and usage for instance. • Admin-Support: an admin role in which an admin account is limited to perform day- to-day tasks, such as creating offerings, but cannot change physical networks, add/remove hosts (but can put them in maintenance). • User-Support: a user role in which an account cannot create or destroy resources (any create*, delete* etc. APIs are disallowed) but can view resources and perform operations such as to start/stop VMs and attach/detach volumes,ISOs etc.
- 49. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Users and Dynamic Roles in Projects • Users & accounts can now be added into projects • Users can be in multiple projects, and have different roles in each project • Projects can be created by any user with permissions to do so • Project owners can now create new project-specific roles • As before, each role defines the APIs available to users associated with that role • Users & accounts can still be added by the project admin or invited to join the project. The global setting to allow the use of invitations only, still applies. • Projects now allow multiple users to be project admins. Used in conjunction with dynamic roles, a group of users who can only administer the project but not its resources, can be created
- 51. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Redfish Support • Used in • Cloudstack Out of band management • KVM host HA • IPMI is not being further developed by Dell, HP, etc • Redfish standard from DMTF seen as goto modern replacement • Restful, vendor agonistic, API • supported by - Dell, HP, Lenovo, Supermicro, IBM, etc • New Redfish OOBM driver for CloudStack
- 52. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Redfish Support Redfish Driver
- 54. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Boot Into Hardware Setup • Forces VM to boot into UEFI/BIOS setup • Overcomes “console race”
- 56. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Human Readable Logs
- 57. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Configure Root Disk via Service Offering
- 58. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Specify Root Disk Size • Optional pre-set/ enforced root disc size on service offering • Admin only feature • If set: •Users cannot specify root disk size on VM create •Users cannot resize root disk (would have to change service offering)
- 60. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack NoVNC Console • Old console architecture renders console images via API calls • has performance limitations • noVNC is a widely used opensource javascript library • https://github.com/novnc/noVNC • uses WebSockets to connect to VM console
- 61. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack NoVNC Cnsole • Global setting ‘novnc.console.default’ • Dramatic performance increase • Greatly reduced lag • No more “missing tiles” • Supports any keyboard layout configured in the VM • Supports pasting into console • Full screen mode
- 62. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Further Reading • 4.15 Release Notes & documentation http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/releasenotes/ • Check out “Feature First Look” articles on ShapeBlue.com blog
- 63. C l i c k t o e d i t #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Questions Giles.Sirett@shapeblue.com Giles@Apache.org @GilesSirett
- 64. Next Talk: Customising the New CloudStack UI SPONSORED BY: Abhishek Kumar ShapeBlue SESSION STARTS AT: 13:50 CEST – 14:20 CEST 06:50 CDT 12:50 BST 13:50 CEST 17:20 IST #CSEUGvirtual
- 65. Next Talk: KVM High Availability regardless of storage SPONSORED BY: Gabriel Brascher VP, Apache CloudStack SESSION STARTS AT: 14:30 CEST – 15:00 CEST 07:30 CDT 13:30 BST 14:30 CEST 18:00 IST #CSEUGvirtual
- 66. Next Talk: From Metal to Service 100% Automation with Apache CloudStack and Ansible SPONSORED BY: Rafael del Valle Celpax SESSION STARTS AT: 15:10 CEST – 15:40 CEST 08:10 CDT 14:10 BST 15:10 CEST 18:40 IST #CSEUGvirtual
- 67. Next Talk: CloudStack and Tungsten Fabric SDN Integration Update SPONSORED BY: SESSION STARTS AT: 15:50 CEST – 16:20 CEST 08:50 CDT 14:50 BST 15:50 CEST 19:20 IST #CSEUGvirtual Simon Weller ENA Radu Todirica ENA
- 68. Next Talk: Building lean CloudStack environments for the Edge SPONSORED BY: Rudraksh Kulshreshtha Indiqus SESSION STARTS AT: 16:30 CEST – 17:00 CEST 09:30 CDT 15:30 BST 16:30 CEST 20:00 IST #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack
- 69. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Simon Weller ENA Radu Todirica ENA Rudraksh Kulshreshtha IndiQus Abhishek Kumar ShapeBlue Gabriel Brascher VP, Apache CloudStack Rafael del Valle Celpax Thanks to our speakers
- 70. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Thanks to today’s sponsors Thanks to Our Sponsors
- 71. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Thanks to Ivet for organizing Ivet Petrova Event organizing superhero
- 72. #CSEUGvirtual @Cloudstack Virtual Pub 17:00-18:00 CEST http://bit.ly/CSEUGvirtual