The document summarizes an agenda for the CloudStack European User Group meeting on September 13, 2018 in London. The agenda includes presentations on backup and recovery in CloudStack, building a redundant CloudStack management cluster, the story behind XCP-ng (a free community build of XenServer), tactical advice on building software-defined clouds, and a CloudStack usage service deep dive. There will also be time for networking and visiting a local pub. The user group is one of many CloudStack user groups around the world that provide a collaborative environment for sharing knowledge about CloudStack and related technologies.

1. CloudStack European User Group
13 September 2018 – 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. Early Excellence Centre

6.  13:15 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett(groupchairman)
 13:30 Backup and recovery in Cloudstack- Paul Angus(ShapeBlue)
 14:10 Building a redundant Cloudstack Management cluster- Vladimir
Melnik (Tucha)
 14:50 Discover the story behind XCP-ng, the free communitybuild of
XenServer- Olivier Lambert (XCP-ng)
 15:30-16:00 BREAK
 16:00 Tactical advice on building software-defined clouds- Boyan Ivanov
(Storpool)
 16:40 CloudStack usage service deep dive- Dag Sonstebo(ShapeBlue)
 17:30 pub – Leadbelly’sbar (near Canada Water)
Todays Agenda

7. • CloudStack European User Group
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• CloudStack - Romania
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• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
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• 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…

8.  We went to Berlin
Since we last met
http://www.apachecon.com/euroadshow18/

9. CloudStack news

10.  4.11.0 released 14 Feb 2018
 4.11.x is an LTS branch
 4.11.1 Released 3 July 2018
 4.11.2 release next few weeks
 4.12 in planning
Releases

11.  More than 250 new capabilities
 New host HA framework
 New certificate authority framework
 Integration with Prometheus
 Cloudian Hyperstore (S3) connector
 Deeper integration with Nuage SDN
 Layer 2 networking capabilities
4.11 Release
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-
notes/en/4.11.0.0/

12.  Maintenance Release – 140 fixes
“These include the speeding up of virtual router deployments and fixes for corner
cases effecting the new config drive and L2 features and some hypervisor specific fixes
to improve compatibility with currenthypervisor versions including the XCP-ng forkof
XenServer”
4.11.1 Release

13.  Moving towards“zero downtime upgrades”
 Ongoing work
4.11.1 Release
https://www.shapeblue.com/working-towards-cloudstack-zero-downtime-
upgrades/
•Environment configuration: In each test we build a simple isolated
network with: 10 VMs
•10 IP addresses
•Firewall rules configured on all IP addresses

14.  4.11.1 –
 major refactor of VR, parallel VR restarts
 To come:
 Advanced parallel VR restarts
 Fully negotiated redundant VR restarts
 Ongoing work on VR code
The path to zero downtime upgrades

15.  Last 6 months: c.800 downloads per month of ACS
packages from packages.shapeblue.com*
 80% for 4.11.x
 Most downloads : USA, China, UK, Brazil and South Korea.
 Most users: USA, China, Brazil, Germany and France.
* Total 2400,does not include downloads.cloudstack.apache.org
Adoption

16. Adoption heatmap

17. Upcoming Events
CloudStack Events

18. CloudStack Collaboration Confernce

19. CloudStack Collaboration Confernce
 2 tracks of CloudStack talks
 Under the Apachecon umbrella
 Free training
 Hackathon
 Cloudstackcollab.org
 www.apachecon.com
 Sept 24-28* 2018
 A few free tickets available

20.  Next meeting of this group:
 December 13 2018 at BT
 CFP: speakers required
Next CSEUUG

21. “we’re not sure
about Apache
Cloudstack, we
don’t read much
about people
adopting it”

22. Some time goes by…..

23. you’re now getting
massive value from
Apache Cloudstack
in your business.
Would you help the
project out by being
public about your
usage please?
“That’s a bit
tricky for us,
blah,blah,blah

24.  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

25. Paul Angus
Backup and recovery in
CloudStack
Next Speaker…

26.  13:15 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett(groupchairman)
 13:30 Backup and recovery in Cloudstack- Paul Angus(ShapeBlue)
 14:10 Building a redundant Cloudstack Management cluster- Vladimir
Melnik (Tucha)
 14:50 Discover the story behind XCP-ng, the free communitybuild of
XenServer- Olivier Lambert (XCP-ng)
 15:30-16:00 BREAK
 16:00 Tactical advice on building software-defined clouds- Boyan Ivanov
(Storpool)
 16:40 CloudStack usage service deep dive- Dag Sonstebo(ShapeBlue)
 17:20 pub
Todays Agenda

27. CloudStack European User Group
13 September 2018 – London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter:@gilesSirett