This document outlines the agenda for the CloudStack European User Group meeting on March 3, 2016. The agenda includes an introduction and CloudStack news roundup by Giles Sirett, followed by several presentations on improving CloudStack for operators, containers and CloudStack, using KVM hypervisor in CloudStack, and securing cloud environments. There will also be discussions on collaborating on CloudStack-related technologies and recent CloudStack releases. The aims of the user group are discussed as well as recent and upcoming CloudStack community events and initiatives.

1. CloudStack European User Group
3 March 2016
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Giles@Apache.org
Twitter: @gilesSirett

2. Thanks to today’s sponsors

3.  Introduction & CloudStack news roundup, Giles Sirett (13:30-14:30)
 Improving CloudStack for Operators, Rohit Yadav (14:30-15:00)
 Containers and CloudStack, Sebastien Goasguen (15:00-15:30)
 BREAK 15:30-16:00
 Using the KVM hypervisor in CloudStack, Dag Sonstebo (16:00-16:30)
 Securing your Cloud Environment, Jon Noble (16:30-17:00)
 17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !
Todays Agenda

4.  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
 No pitching !
 Membership “database” on LinkedIn
The aims of this group

5. How we fit in
Apache
CloudStack
Project
Development,
Governance &
decisions
CSEUUG
Cloudstack
Silicon
valley UG
CloudStack
India UG
CloudStack
NYC
CloudStack
Brasil UG
Cloudstack
Japan UG

6. • 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…

7. CloudStack news

8. Recent Releases
Release Date
4.6 10 Nov 2016
4.6.1 30 Nov 2016
4.6.2 13 Dec 2016
4.7 13 Dec 2015
4.7.1 20 Jan 2016
4.8 20 Jan 2016

9.  Improved SAML plugin & authentication framework
 Redundant Routers for VPC and VR refactoring
 UI: SSH keys and User-Data
 Send statistics collected by StatsCollector to Graphite
 Browser-based Template/Volume upload
 Run CloudStack inside Docker
 Deprecation of awsapi
4.6.x Release

10.  Metrics Views for CloudStack UI
 Quota Service
 Affinity groups within projects
 Updates: VMware sdk 5.5, Niciri/Nuage plugin updates,
vCenter 6.0 support
4.7.x Release

11.  Mainly bug fixes
4.8.x Release

12. Two types of CloudStack user…
Agile User
• Embraces devops
• dev & ops
collaborate
• automate test &
release
• Emphasis on cloud
native apps
• Aspires to
continually deliver
• Like to fail fast
“Less than Agile” user
• Risk adverse
• Heavy with change
control
• Traditional or
unknown
workloads
• Stability always
takes priority
Rapid release cycle LTS releases

13.  Stable master
 Allows a release at any time
 Increased release cadence
 Ultimately working towards removing fork-truck upgrades
 Suits more agile users
New release model

14.  LTS branches cut every 6 months (Jan, July)
 14 months patch backporting
 20 months CVE/Security backporting
 The LTS Branches will AUGMENT the monthly releases
Community LTS initiative

15.  Out of band management (power management)
 Dynamic routed VPC (OSPF)
 Host HA with out-of-band management based fencing
 Dynamic roles for role based access control (RBAC)
 Strongswan based VPN/ipsec
Development On deck

16.  Improve release principles
 Faster release
 LTS initiative
 CI automated & distributed testing
Community initiatives – on deck

17.  Improve Marvin
 Support for Java 8
 Migration to Spring 4.x
 Embedded Jetty
 Less painful and improved database and CloudStack
upgrades
 UI codebase improvements
In planning

18. One specific mention

20. 29%

22. Ecosystem news

23.  Schuberg Philis have decided to
fork CloudStack for their own us
 Welcome…… “Cosmic cloud”
 Full details
https://www.cupfighter.net/2016
/01/welcome-mission-critical-
cloud
Schuberg Philis

24.  This was no surprise
 Big deal ? – we loose 5%
of commits
 The Citrix strategy was
incorrect from the
beginning
Farewell to Citrix

25. Welcome Accelerite

26.  CCCEU15
 7-9th October - Dublin
 www.cloudstackcollab.org
 Presentation Videos
 https://www.youtube.com/pla
ylist?list=PLbzoR-
pLrL6ruJrhXZ-
jSSYw0m3WfK4ea
Videos now published…

27.  CloudStack Collaboration
conference
 Sao Paulo – Brasil
 29/30 Sept 2016
 Hackathon & mini-conference in
planning
 Montreal May 2016
 Cloudstackcollab.org for updates
Upcoming conferences

28.  60 questions/90 minutes
 Certification length 3 years
 Created by LPI, provided by Pearson
Vue
 $150
 http://home.pearsonvue.com/test-
taker.aspx
 Use promocode ACCELpromocodeASF
for $50 rebate to CloudStack project
CloudStack Certification launched

29. Improving CloudStack for
Operators
Rohit Yadav
Next Speaker…

31.  Get involved in the ACS community
 Join a mailing list
 Help
 Be helped
 Engage with the developer
community
Specific calls to action

32.  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
Specific calls to action

33.  Our sponsors: BT, ShapeBlue &
Solidfire/Netapp
 Steve, Neil & Kuldip
 Rohit, Sebastien, Dag & John
 And now…..
Thanks