The document summarizes the agenda for the European CloudStack User Group meeting on October 23, 2014. It includes welcome remarks by Giles Sirett, chairman of the group. The agenda then lists presentations on using CloudStack at BT, CloudStack templates, building test CloudStack environments, and CloudStack storage evolution. It provides updates on recent CloudStack releases and news, including growing community and installation base. It discusses the goals of the user group and calls for members to get involved in discussions, help each other, and spread awareness of Apache CloudStack.

1. European CloudStack User Group
Welcome - 23 October 2014
Giles Sirett
Group Chairman
giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue
@GilesSirett

2. #WhoAmI ?
 CEO of ShapeBlue
 PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack
 Involved in Cloudstack for 3+ years
 Chairman of this group
 Recovering developer

3. Thanks to todays sponsors

4. Agenda
 Welcome & CloudStack news roundup – Giles Sirett, ShapeBlue (13:30-14:00)
 Using CloudStack in BT research - Laurence Forgiel, BT (14:00-14:40)
 CloudStack templates - Lucian-Paul Burlacu (14:40-15:20)
 BREAK 15:20-15:40
 Building simple Cloudstack test environments - Geoff Higginbottom, ShapeBlue
 CloudStack Storage Evolution – Andy Roberts, Solidfire
 17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !

5. The aims of this group
 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 !

6. CloudStack News…
 4.4.0 release
 GA 26 July 2014
 Java version upgraded to Java 1.7
 Support managed storage for root disks
 Root disk resize
 Per primary Storage OverProvisioning
 VMWare Support for DRS
 Region wide Guest networks and VPC
 Virtual Router Service Failure Alerting
 Distributed routing and network ACL with OVS plug-in
 Hyper-V support improvements
 Zone Wide Primary Store in Hyper-V
 VPC support on Hyper-V
 Storage Live-Migration support for Hyper-V

7. CloudStack News…
 4.4.1 release
 GA yesterday
 Bug fix release mainly
 Improved Storage Management
 Virtual Private Cloud tiers can now span guest networks
across availability zones
 Support for VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler
 Improved Support for Hyper-V Zones, VPC and Storage
Migration

8. CloudStack News…
 4.5 release in progress
 SAML2 support
 RVR refactoring
 Lots of other work
 4.3.1 remains most commonly deployed build

9. CloudStack News…
 CloudMonkey 5.2.0 release
 Multiple server profiles
 Windows and Linux versions
 Authored by ShapeBlue

10. New repo hosting
 ShapeBlue.com/packages
 Maintained by ShapeBlue, hosted by BT (thanks guys)
 Upstream: official ACS releases
 Main: will include ShapeBlue patches*
 Testing: Nightly build repository
 System VM templates

11. CloudStack News…
 Current push for complete change in development
approach
 Current: develop on master and then cut an unstable
release branch.
 Releases then go through Q&A, but development
continues on master
 Proposal to maintain a stable master, with
development being merged into master

12. CloudStack News…..
 Community continues
to grow
 Meet-ups getting
bigger
 200+ active
contributors, 7o+
organisations
 Now 72 86 96
committers

13. The good news….
 Install base continues to grow
 300+ known production deployments
 Anecdotal evidence of something changing….

14. Anecdotal evidence….
 “Its now time to look
at something else”
 5 different
CloudStack talks

15. Anecdotal evidence…

16. Anecdotal Evidence
 At ShapeBlue
 Users asking “how can we get involved”
 Users asking for feature development / engineering

17.  So, these guys leaving Citrix
Becomes….
“Citrix Gate”

18. “Citrix Gate”

19. The points they missed
 CloudStack is an Apache project and has been for 2.5
years
 Citrix are a big contributor but that’s down to c.40%
now and continues to fall
 NO organisation has standing in an ASF project
 CloudStack is overwhelmingly populated by users
 NOT ALL FOSS PROJECTS ARE DRIVEN BY VENDORS
 Everybody likes a good headline

20.  Eventually…..
“Citrix Gate”

21. The bad news
 CitrixGate shows us that that is still a
BIG problem with….
 Awareness, awareness, awareness
 It IS being fixed
 Announcement end of November at
Collab

22. CCCEU14
 19-22 November,Budapest
 Schedule confirmed
 64 different talks
 Workshops & training
 Day2: focus on use-case’s
 www.cloudstackcollab.org

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

24. Specific calls to action
 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)

25. Laurence Forgiel
BT
Using CloudStack in BT
research
Next speaker..