Session Description: VP of Apache CloudStack welcomes the CloudStack India User Group meetup attendees in Bangalore and walks through the current state of the Apache CloudStack community, composition of committers and PMC members, release activities, contributor trends on mailing lists and GitHub, and update on community initiatives and upcoming events. Speaker Bio: Rohit is the current VP of the Apache CloudStack project, as well as a PMC member. For work, Rohit works as the VP of engineering at ShapeBlue, where he provides leadership and mentorship to the ever-growing Engineering Team. --------------------------------------------- On Friday 18th August, the Apache CloudStack India User Group 2023 took place in Bangalore, seeing CloudStack enthusiasts, experts, and industry leaders from across the country, discuss the open-source project. The meetup served as a vibrant platform to delve into the depths of Apache CloudStack, share insights, and forge new connections.

1. Lunch and Wifi
Join “WeWorkGuest” Wifi
Enter your name, email and phone
number to receive OTP. Connect to
join wifi.
Lunch: Pizzas incoming - pl advise
any specific requirements to us.
Twitter hashtag:
#CloudStackIndiaMeetup2023

2. Agenda
● 12:00 PM – 1.00 PM: Pizzas, Networking and Registration
● 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM: Welcome and State of Apache
CloudStack Community, Rohit Yadav, VP Apache
CloudStack
● 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM: What's Coming in CloudStack 4.19,
Abhishek Kumar
● 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM: Deploying Kubernetes Clusters on
Apache CloudStack, Kiran Chavala, Vishesh Jindal
● 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: CloudStack Object Storage
Framework & Demo, Kishan Kavala
● 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: CloudStack Managed User-data &
Demo, Harikrishna Patnala
● 4.10 PM – 4.35 PM: Ceph Storage Use Cases with Apache
CloudStack, Ravichandran, Stackbill-AssistanZ Networks
● 4:35 PM – 5:00 PM: Mitigating Common CloudStack
Instance Deployment Failures, Jithin Raju
● 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Farewell to community and
Networking

3. Welcome and State of
Apache CloudStack
Community
Rohit Yadav
PMC Chair and VP Apache CloudStack

4. Twitter hashtag:
#CloudStackIndiaMeetup2023

5. Project Composition
● Founded: 2013-03-20 (10+ years ago)
● Community Health Score (Chi): 10.00 (Super Healthy)
● There are currently 130 committers and 52 PMC members
in this project.
● Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:2
● Last addition was Ivet Petrova on 2023-02-11
● John Bampton was added as committer on 2023-08-01

6. Apache CloudStack Release Activities
● 4.19.0.0 planned in Q4 ‘24 (RM - Abhishek Kumar)
● 4.18.1.0 planned in Q3 ‘24 (RM - Wei Zhou, RC1
expected by end of August, or early September)
● 4.18.0.0 was released on 2023-03-20
● 4.17.2.0 was released on 2022-12-16

7. Other CloudStack Releases:
● CloudMonkey (cmk) CLI
v6.3.0 - 28 April 2023
● Terraform Provider
v0.4.0 - 2 Feb 2022
● CloudStack-Go SDK:
this month (community
tagged)
Related Community Releases:
● CAPC (Cluster API
Provider for
CloudStack):
v0.4.8: 21 Oct 2022
v0.4.9-rc6: July 2023
● mbx:
v0.4 -> Aug 2023

8. Mailing List Trends

9. Github Activity

10. Blog Migration and New Website
● Docusaurus based blog/website system
● Github Actions led automated publication
● Blog migrated at
https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog
● Website migration under discussion and
review, staging available for review:
https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org/

11. CCC 2023 Paris!
The annual community organised
CloudStack Collaboration conference
has been announced with registration
and CFP open. The two-day hybrid
event will be taking place on November
23-24th in Paris and online.
https://www.cloudstackcollab.org

12. Agenda
● 12:00 PM – 1.00 PM: Pizzas, Networking and Registration
● 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM: Welcome and State of Apache
CloudStack Community, Rohit Yadav, VP Apache
CloudStack
● 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM: What's Coming in CloudStack 4.19,
Abhishek Kumar
● 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM: Deploying Kubernetes Clusters on
Apache CloudStack, Kiran Chavala, Vishesh Jindal
● 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: CloudStack Object Storage
Framework & Demo, Kishan Kavala
● 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: CloudStack Managed User-data &
Demo, Harikrishna Patnala
● 4.10 PM – 4.35 PM: Ceph Storage Use Cases with Apache
CloudStack, Ravichandran, Stackbill-AssistanZ Networks
● 4:35 PM – 5:00 PM: Mitigating Common CloudStack
Instance Deployment Failures, Jithin Raju
● 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Farewell to community and
Networking