4.1, 4.2 and Beyond!

Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF

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Hi, I’m Chip.Nice to meet you.

Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF

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Let’s Talk about CloudStack’s Upcoming

Releases!

Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF

chipchilders@apache.org | Twitter: @chipchilders | IRC: chipc on freenode

http://chipchilders.com

But first, a bit aboutthe CloudStack Release Process Time-based feature releases ~4 months* Bug-fixes in between Semantic Versioning for release numbers:

Started at version 4.1.0-incubating 4.1.0 will be backward compatible with 4.0.x-incubating

Ongoing feature merges into master

* Specific dates are hard to hit for the actual release, given that we’re volunteers and we want high quality releases!

So when do you get 4.1.0? Real soon now… No really… any day now… (I hope to start the vote in the

next few days) It’ll take a few days after the vote passes to publish the

official release though!

What’s in 4.1? Lots of internal architectural changes (we want to speed up

development of new integrations) 20 new features 24 “improvements” 155 bug fixes

Architectural Changes Converted from custom injection framework to Spring Lots of refactoring:

Storage plugin model Network plugin model API implementation refactored (remains compatible)

There’s a theme here: We are making CloudStack more flexible, both for developers and operators…

New Features in 4.1API, UI and Integration Options: AWS style regions Event pub-sub framework (RabbitMQ implementation) Advanced search within the UI API Server request throttling API Discoverer Service Users resetting their own passwords Users directly changing their API keys EC2 query API Cloudmonkey CLI

New Features in 4.1Networking: Nicira integration adds L3 functionality Persistent networks without a running VM Autoscale (Netscaler implementation) Juniper SRX & F5 Big IP inline mode Egress FW rules for guest networks Open vSwitch support for KVM

New Features in 4.1Compute: Support for passing custom VMX settings to vSphere on VM

create Adding and removing Virtual NICs from VMs Reset SSH key within a VM

New Features in 4.1Storage: Volume resizing S3-backed secondary storage

Great, That’s 4.1… What about 4.2? Many features proposed for 4.1 were moved to 4.2

(Remember that time-based release thing?) 58 New Features scheduled for 4.2!

16 of them are already finished, including testing Some of them won’t make the release (again, time-based!)

40 Improvements (same caveats as features)

A sampling of New Features coming in 4.2… Midonet and BigSwitch SDN

integrations Enhanced Baremetal

provisioning VM I/O Throttling Hyper-V 2012 Support LXC Support Cisco VSG integration Cisco ASA 1000V VM Affinity Rules Eliminate NFS layer for S3

secondary storage

Zone-wide primary storage Security group isolation in

Advanced Network zones Dedicating resources to domains

and accounts IP Address reservation w/o a

vNIC allocation Improved synchronization

between CloudStack and what’s actually running on the hosts

vSphere DVS support UI Plugin framework

We’re just getting started though…

Enough about us, let’s talk about you!

If you’re a CloudStack user,come join us!Ways you can participate:

Build a feature Fix a bug Help other users Review, edit or prepare documentation Feature and release testing Marketing Other ways that you come up with!

If you’re interested, start here:

http://cloudstack.apache.org/contribute.html

Thanks!(any questions?)

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Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF

chipchilders@apache.org | Twitter: @chipchilders | IRC: chipc on freenode

http://chipchilders.com