This document summarizes an event for the CloudStack European User Group that was held on December 13, 2018 in London. The agenda included welcome remarks from the group chairman, several technical presentations on CloudStack topics from various speakers, and discussions around collaborative opportunities for CloudStack users. Breaks were scheduled throughout the day for networking. The event was sponsored and aimed to provide a forum for sharing ideas, case studies, and addressing problems among the CloudStack user community.
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1. CloudStack European User Group
13 December 2018 – BT, London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett
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.
Linkedin group is only “membership database”
The aims of the CloudStack EUUG
4. 13:15 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett(group chairman)
13:30 How our cloud works, Ingo Jochim & Andre Walter (Itelligence Group)
14:15 XCP-ng A brief update, Olivier Lambert (XCP project)
14:45-15:15 - break
15:15 CloudStack Container Service – an update, Paul Angus (ShapeBlue)
15:45 Advanced S3 compatible storage integration in CloudStack, Adam Dagnall
(Cloudian)
16:30-16:45 - break
16:45 CloudStack – 5 years in production, Andrija Panic (HIAG data AG)
17:30 pub – The Paternoster (across the road)
Todays 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…
13. Cloudstack Adoption
In the last 12 months our MS packages were
downloaded 116,796 times
from 21,202 different IP addresses
Combined results from download.cloudstack.org and packages.shapeblue.com between 1/9/17 and 1/9/18
Our “known user” list shows 219 users
15. 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/
16. Moving towards “zero downtime upgrades”
Ongoing work
4.11.1 Release
https://www.shapeblue.com/working-towards-cloudstack-zero-downtime-
upgrades/
•Environment configuration: In each test we build a simple isolated
network with: 10 VMs
•10 IP addresses
•Firewall rules configured on all IP addresses
17. 4.11.1 –
major refactor of VR, parallel VR restarts
To come:
Advanced parallel VR restarts
Fully negotiated redundant VR restarts
Ongoing work on VR code
The path to zero downtime upgrades
18. C l i c k t o e d i t
Other talks
Rohit Yadav Virtual Router - Past, Present and Future Daan Hoogland Cloudstack backup and recovery framework
Boris Stoyanov Load Balancing CloudStack Agent Connections
Rafael
Weingärtner Community culture, code quality and testability.
Ingo Jochim,
Andre Walter CloudStack with Ansible Automation
Khosrow
Moossavi CloudStack integration with Vault by HashiCorp
Boyan Krosnov The story of building our CloudStack storage integration K B Shiv Kumar
CloudStack Monitoring - In-Depth Checks For
Production Deployments
Dag Sonstebo :CloudStack usage service deep dive Alexander Stock Billing with CloudStack
Nicolas Vazquez Bypass Secondary Storage Pierre-Luc Dion logs and metric collection in Apache CloudStack
Dingane Hlaluku Remote diagnostics in CloudStack
Ernie Janse van
Rensburg
VPC private gateway practical uses and
improvements
Paul Angus Complex Network Topologies in CloudStack
Henko
Holtzhausen Container Service - k8s in your cloud
S. Bretschneider CloudStack + Ceph
Pierre
VACHERAND Billing for Apache CloudStack
Suresh Kumar
Anaparti
Volume and Snapshot Improvements in Apache
Cloudstack
Jean-Francois
Nadeau A Journey to CloudStack
Kris Sterckx
CloudStack : Migrating/Transforming your guest
networks in Apache CloudStack Darren Cole Your Own CloudStack for less than $500
Sateesh
Chodapuneedi GPU/vGPU Support in CloudStack Mike Tutkowski CloudStack: What is Managed Storage? Demo
19. C l i c k t o e d i t
Hackathon
• 40+ Developers in 1
day hackathon
• Subjects covered…..
20. C l i c k t o e d i t
Cloudstack Hackathon
Hyper-V enlightenment VR Programming Optimization
Version 5.x of CloudStack New UI working with API Discovery
KVM IO bursting Network Models refactoring + designer UI
Live VM Migration Unifying regions into consolidated pane of glass
RPC Standard interface to VR
Video series for CloudStack (ex. developers series,
users series)
Getting INFO easily out of the SSVM
Use GitHub to document aspects of CloudStack (how
to build an environment, how to start writing code for
it, etc.)
Deprecate old code
Figure out a process for how we'd like issues to be
opened, assigned, closed, and resolved (using JIRA
and GitHub Issues)
CloudMonkey testing
Create a true REST API (it can use the existing API
behind the scenes).
NoVNC in CPVM
Logic to generate code in particular use cases so you
can focus mainly on your business logic.
CentOS SIG + packaging Use standard libraries that implement JPA, HTTP, etc.
Support IPv6 Remote Meetups every quarter
26. 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
27. CloudStack European User Group
13 September 2018 – London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett