This document contains the agenda for the CloudStack European User Group meeting on October 24, 2019 in London. The agenda includes presentations on Cloud Management Portals, running OpenShift clusters in CloudStack environments, new features in CloudStack 4.13, Smart Communications' journey with CloudStack, and storage-based snapshots for KVM VMs in CloudStack. There will also be discussions on CloudStack news and events. The goal of the user group is to provide a collaborative space for sharing knowledge and experiences using Apache CloudStack.

1. CloudStack European User Group
24 October 2019 – London
Steve Roles
CloudStack community member!
Twitter: @shapeblue

2.  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, usually in London
 LinkedIn group is only “membership database”
The aims of the CloudStack EUG

3. Thanks to today’s sponsors

4.  13:00 Welcome and CloudStack news – Steve Roles
 13:10 Cloud Management Portal - Admin View Andre Walter & Sebastian
Bretschneider (iTelligence)
 13:50 Running OpenShift Clusters in a Cloudstack Environment Sven Vogel (eWerk)
 14:30-14:45 Coffee break
 14:45 New stuff in CloudStack Andrija Panic (ShapeBlue)
 15:30 Our journey with CloudStack Graeme Wright, Smart Communications
 16:15 Storage based snapshots for KVM VMs in CloudStack Slavka Peleva (Storpool)
 17:00 Closing words (all together)
 17:30 Drinks
Today’s 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.  4.12.0 released (April)
 4.12 is not an LTS branch
 c. 200 commits, with multiple new features and fixes
 4.11.3 released (July)
 4.11.x is an LTS branch
 c. 50 fixes on top of the CloudStack 4.11.2.0 release
 4.13.0 released (September)
 4.13.x is an LTS branch
 c. 200 new features, enhancements and fixes since 4.12
 Winter 2019 LTS release (likely to be 4.14) coming soon…
Releases

8. 4.13
 Supporting configuration of virtualised appliances
 VMware 6.7 support
 Increased granularity & control of instance deployment
 Improvements in system VM performance
 Allow live migration of DPDK enabled instances
 More flexible UI branding

9. 4.14
 Kubernetes integration (plugin)
 Backup & Recovery framework
 VM Ingestion
 New system VM management API
 New, modern UI (Primate, just announced and demo’ed at
CCCNA19)

10. More details?
Listen to Andrija’s talk later!

11. C l i c k t o e d i t
* Recognised by Newsweek in their inaugural list of Best
Business Tools in the 'Cloud Services' category
* The recognition was for:
* Willingness to recommend the brand to colleagues
* Trustworthiness
* Reliability
* Fulfilment of service promise
* Continuous improvement
* Security
* https://www.newsweek.com/best-business-tools-
2019/cloud-services

12. CloudStack Events

13.  Next meeting of this group:
 January 2019, location TBC
 Registration open soon
 CFP: speakers required
CloudStack European User Group

14. CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2019

15. CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2019
* Fantastic turnout (ApacheCon report 2nd highest ever registration)
* New UI announced and demo’ed
* All (well, 21/24) talks recorded and available here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU2OcwpQkYCyONTMOg3tAcphtgCVOHcW1
* Short promotional video created: https://youtu.be/k3uD69fajCU

16.  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 !
*Known user list: http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html
Specific calls to action

17. Our first speaker(s)
 Andre Walter & Sebastian Bretschneider (iTelligence)
 Cloud Management Portal - Admin View