Giles Sirett - welcome and CloudStack news. Presentation from CloudStack European User Group, Thursday, April 19, London.

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CloudStack European User Group
19 April 2018 – London
Part of: CloudStack Ceph Day
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett

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#CloudstackCephDay
Does this Venn diagram work?
Todays event

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Thanks again to today’s sponsors

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 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
The aims of the CloudStack EUUG

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 13:15 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett(group chairman)
 13:30 “passing the torch” and CloudStack 4.11 release - Wido den
Hollander (PcExtreme) & Mike Tutkowski
 14:10 Billing the Cloud - Antoine Coetsier (Exoscale)
 14:50 What’s new in CloudStack 4.11 - Paul Angus (ShapeBlue)
 15:30-16:00 BREAK
 16:00 Building a software-defined cloud with CloudStack - Boyan Ivanov
(Storpool)
 16:40 What is Managed Storage? - Mike Tutkowski (Netapp Solidfire)
 17:20 Closing notes with the Ceph guys
 17:30 pub
Todays Agenda

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• 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…

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CloudStack news

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 4.9.3 released - September 2017
 4.9.x is an LTS branch
 4.10 released – September 2017
 4.11.0 released 14 Feb 2018
 4.11.x is an LTS branch
 4.11.1 in planning
Releases

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 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/

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 What didn’t make the press release
 Major refactor of virtual router
 Moving towards “zero downtime upgrades”
4.11 Release
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-
notes/en/4.11.0.0/

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Nearly all of the 4.11 features were
contributed or instigated by users
#VendorLess
What excites me about 4.11

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 Citrix changed the
XenServer licensing
model
 So, this happens:
 https://xcp-ng.org/
 https://github.com/xcp-
ng
XCP-NG

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Upcoming Events
CloudStack Events

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Apache Roadshow

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 Track dedicated to Apache
Cloud
 CloudStack
 Hadoop/ cloud native
 Mesos
 Openwhisk/ serverless
 Solr
Apache Roadshow
https://www.apachecon.com/euroadshow18/index.html

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CloudStack Collaboration Confernce

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

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“Once the hype &
conversation moves
on from Cloud
orchestration to other
things such as
containers, CloudStack
will start to be taken at
face value as the
reliable, scalable, easy
to install platform that
it is”
Giles Sirett, 2015
CloudStack – the best kept secret in the
cloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJiJRnJ_34w

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 WARNING: commercial and community blur approaching:
 http://Packages.shapeblue.com currently running at 800
product downloads per month. Month on month, showing 5%
growth
 ShapeBlue is NOT the official project download site
(http://download.cloudstack.org)
It’s coming true

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 WARNING: commercial and community blur approaching:
 New *private* CloudStack clouds coming this year (with
company revenue for size):
 Large online retailer ($ 8 billion)
 One of the largest physical retailers in US ($12 billion)
 Storage products company ($ 2 billion)
 National/state Broadcaster (unknown)
 Cyber security company (c. £250 million)
Its coming true

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Its coming true

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https://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
We just don’t do marketing well

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 Take Apache Cloudstack seriously
 See through the hype
 Give it the credit it deserves
 Try it !
 Existing users
 Share your story
 Be proud of your CloudStack usage
 Engage with the community
Please help us

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Passing the Torch
VP handover and CloudStack 4.11
release
Wido den Hollander & Mike
Tutkowski
Next Speakers…

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

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CloudStack European User Group
17 August 2017 - London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett

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Thanks to today’s sponsors

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 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 give a strong voice for feedback to Apache developer
community
 No pitching !
The aims of this group

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 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett
 Leveraging VMware Storage I/O Control in CloudStack - Mike Tutkowski,
Netapp/Solidfire
 Policy-Driven SDN in CloudStack – Sigert Goeminne, Nuage Networks
 [Break]
 Cloudstack and NFV - Paul Angus, ShapeBlue
 CloudStack-UI - origin, purpose, roadmap and architectural notes - Ilya
Zolotukhin /Ivan Kudriavtsev, Bitworks
 Monitoring CloudStack and Components - Alexander Stock, Bit.Group GmbH
 Running Cloudstack with IPv6 – Wido Den Hollender, PCExtreme
 Pub for questions !!
Todays Agenda

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• CloudStack European User Group
• 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…

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CloudStack news

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 4.9.2 Released
 4.9.3 about to be cut (should be out very early Sept)
 4.9.x is an LTS branch
 4.10 released
Releases

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 Networking
 Fixes to ACLs, S2S VPN, Private Gateways, Redundant VRs and other optimizations
 Nuage VSP SDN Plugin got a lot of improvements and some new features
 Database
 MySQL connector changed
 DB optimizations and improvements
 Storage
 Enabled fast snapshots for managed storage using XenServer
 Fixes for some RBD issues
 Fixes multiple Swift object store issues
 Improved VMware disk implementation
 Hypervisor
 Support for XenServer 7
 Support for VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5
 Support for Ubuntu 16.04 as KVM host
4.10 Release

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 Usability
 Added user defined roles
 Added configurable root volume size for KVM
 Lots of localization improvements
 Added CentOS 6.x guest OS mappings for VMware
 Operations
 Added Out-of-band power management for hosts (EG: IPMI, iLO, DRAC, etc.)
 Miscellaneous
 Use non-blocking SSL handshake in NioConnection/Link
 Added memory utilization to listVirtualMachines
 Multiple fixes related to usage
4.10 Release

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CSEUUG in Prague April 2017

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CCC Miami

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CCC Miami
 30 + Cloudstack talks
 Free bootcamp training
 Hackathon
 Cloudstackcollab.org

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Leveraging VMware Storage I/O
Control in CloudStack
Mike Tutkowski, Netapp Solidfire
Next Speaker…

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