The CloudStack European User Group meeting held on March 14, 2019, at Ticketmaster London included various presentations on CloudStack features, networking, and the health of the community. The agenda included discussions on new releases and upcoming events, highlighting the group's collaborative environment and focus on technical insights and case studies. Future meetings are planned for June in Sofia, Bulgaria, and October in London, along with the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Las Vegas in September.

1. CloudStack European User Group
14 March 2019 – Ticketmaster
London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter:@gilesSirett

2.  Collaborative environment for:
 all thingsApache CloudStack
 Related tech: ecosystemproducts, 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.
 Linkedin group is only “membership database”
The aims of the CloudStack EUUG

3. Thanks to today’s sponsors

4.  13:00 Welcome and CloudStack news- Giles Sirett(group chairman)
 13:15 Ticketmaster’sRoadto Cloudstack – Mike Rowell (Ticketmaster)
 14:00 NewCloudStack features around VM deploymentandconfiguration-Bobby
Stoyanov (ShapeBlue)
 14:45-15:00 - break
 15:00 Flexiblenetworkingisa requirementforscaling a cloud environment -Wido
den Hollender (PCextreme)
 15:45 Usingmessagebrokerto extendcloud features - Grégoire Lamodière(DIMSI)
 16:30-16:45- break
 16:45 Why latency is the #1 metric of your Cloud - Boyan Ivanov (Storpool)
 17:30 Drinks
Todays 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.  4.11.2 released
 4.11.x is an LTS branch
 71 issues fixed
 4.11.3 in planning
 4.12.0 in voting
 4.13.0, next LTS, next few months
Releases

8.  Cross platform stand-alone 32/64 bit
binaries
 Mac / Linux / Windows
 Interactive commands
 Improved help
 6.0.0 currently in voting
Cloudmonkey 6.0

9. New VP Cloudstack
Congratulations to the new VP
Apache Cloudstack……..
…..who cannot yet be named
because the Board haven’t done their
formal ratification yet

10. VP/Chair
PMC
Committers
Contributors
The role of the VP
VP/Chair
PMC
Committers
Contributors
ASF Board

11. Market news

12. Whatever happened to openstack ?
https://aeva.online/2019/03/what-happened-to-openstack/

13. C l i c k t o e d i t
 Th e p er c ep t i on p r ob l em
“CloudStack –
Never heard of
it!”
Architect at unnamed
company, 2016, that
now runs a 800 host
production Cloudstack
production environment

14. C l i c k t o e d i t
 In 2011

15. Openstack is successful. Right ?

16. The influence paradox

17. C l i c k t o e d i t
@CloudStack @GilesSirett

18. C l i c k t o e d i t
@CloudStack @GilesSirett
 W e LO VE t h e AS F, b u t … .
The mission of the Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) is to provide software for the
public good. We do this by providingservices
and support for many like-mindedsoftware
project communitiesof individualswho choose
to join the ASF.

19. C l i c k t o e d i t• Cloudstack is in the Plateau of Productivity
• Adoption is healthy
• Development is healthy
• Community is healthy
• It remains an invisible man….please help with that

20. After a few months
and a successful
Cloudstack
deployment,
everybody is really
happy…..

21. Upcoming Events
CloudStack Events

22.  Next meeting of this group:
 June 13, Sofia, Bulgaria
 CFP: speakers required
 Next London meeting: October
Next CSEUUG

23. C l i c k t o e d i t
 CloudStack Collaboration Conferences
• Brasil – April 26
• Las Vegas –
Sept 19-23

24. Cloudstack collaboration conference-2019
 Las Vegas
 9-13 September 2019
 CFP now open
 Travel subsistence
available
 http://Cloudstackcollab.org

25. Cloudstack collaboration conference-2019
 2 days, 2 tracks
 Co-located with Apachecon
 Hackathon
 Why bother going ?
 Learn
 Share
 Collaborate
 Gain insights
 Gamble ?

26. Ticketmaster’s Road to
Cloudstack
Mike Rowell
Next Speaker

27.  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 !
*Knownuser list: http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html
Specific calls to action

28. CloudStack European User Group
14 March 2019 – Ticketmaster
London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter:@gilesSirett