This document contains the agenda for the CloudStack European User Group meeting on November 12, 2015. The agenda includes: - A CloudStack news round-up from Paul Angus of ShapeBlue. - A presentation on using Ansible and CloudStack from René Moser of SwissTXT. - A talk on the importance of continuous integration from Daan Hoogland of LeaseWeb. - A break from 15:00-15:30. - A session on securing Cloud environments from Jon Noble of Trend Micro. - Another presentation from Paul Angus of ShapeBlue on CloudStack networking. - An open discussion period from 17:00 onwards at a local pub.

1. CloudStack European User Group
12 November 2015
Paul Angus
VP Technology ShapeBlue
paul.angus@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @CloudyAngus

2. Thanks to today’s sponsors

3.  CloudStack news round-up – Paul Angus, ShapeBlue (13:40-14:00)
 Ansible and CloudStack in Action- René Moser, SwissTXT (14:00-14:30)
 The importance of having your own ci run or Jenkins slave - Daan Hoogland, LeaseWeb
(14:30-15:00)
 BREAK 15:00-15:30
 Securing your Cloud Environment - Jon Noble, Trend Micro (15:30-16:00)
 The What, When and wHow of CloudStack Networking - Paul Angus, ShapeBlue (16:00-
16:30)
 17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !
Agenda

4.  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

5.  CCCEU15
 7-9th October - Dublin
 www.cloudstackcollab.org
 Presentation Videos
 https://www.youtube.com/pla
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CloudStack News…

14.  CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2016
 Sao Paulo - Brazil
CloudStack News…

15. 4.6 in the voting stages
New Features:
 Out of band VR migration global setting (to reboot VR or not)
 Reinstate working sessions in browsers (refreshing tab won’t
log users out
 SAML plugin
 Several List APIs scalability fixes for large items/datasets
 SystemVM template appliance building code refactoring- latest
systemvmtemplate based on Debian 7.9.0
 Baremetal Advanced Networking support
 Several translations: German, Japanese, Portuguese etc.
 Increased max guest VMs to 500 for XenServer 6.5
 Virtual Router codebase refactoring (including redundant VPC
VR)
 Some core/async job fixes
 Volume upload feature (upload volume from local file/browser
to SSVM)
 VMware: vCenter 6.0 support
 Removal of awsapi, and introduction of new sub-projects:
cloudstack-ec2stack, cloudstack-gcestack
 KVM hypervisor plugin refactoring by Wilder et al at SBP
 Per zone local storage for systemvms becomes configurable
(system.vm.use.local.storage setting)
 Several security fixes: update openssl pkg version in systemvm,
disable ssl in systemvm (use TLS), dis allow non-POST requests
for login APIs, allow non-root users to add KVM hosts
 Support for CentOS7 as KVM host, cloudstack-agent packaging
for CentOS7
 Several KVM related enhancements and fixes
CloudStack News…

16. Ecosystem
Software Defined Networking: Nuage Networks, MidoNet, Juniper Contrail/OpenContrail, VMware NSX,
OpenDaylight, VXLAN, GRE Tunnels
Portals / Billing: Amysta Billing, Scalr, RightScale, HostBill, Clearlogin, WHMCS, UberSmith, FogPanel, Citrix
CloudPortal Business Manager, Biomni
Storage: Cloudian (S3), Carringo (S3), SolidFire, S3 compliant storage, Ceph, Swift, CloudByte, RiakCS, Gluster
Network Appliances: Palto Alto Firewalls, Juniper SRX Firewalls, BigIP F5, NetScaler, Monitoring, ScienceLogic,
Zenoss, Nagios
PaaS / Auotmation: ActiveEon – ProActive, VMTurbo, Juju, Apache Stratos, UShareSoft
Others: WiKID (Two-factor authentication), SAML v2 providers
CloudStack News…

17.  Let the community help you by joining a mailing list
 Help
 Be helped
 Get social
 #cloudstackworks
Specific calls to action

18.  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

19. Ansible and CloudStack in Action
René Moser
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