1.
What's Coming In CloudStack
4.18
by Boris Stoyanov

2.
About me
Software Engineer in Test
Joined CloudStack in 2016
PMC @ Apache CloudStack since 2019
Married, Dad of 2

3.
About CloudStack 4.18
• LTS
• Expected Q4/Q1
• Lots of new features
• Kudos to Daan!

4.
Disclaimer - it is work in progress
• There is no
fi
xed ETA yet
• Some of features might not make it
• Community effort

5.
Volume Encryption
• Supported for KVM only
• Supported storage: NFS, Local storage, Shared mount point,
ScaleIO
• All Volume/VM lifecycle operations supported except live storage
migration and extraction
• Offering based - root/data disk offering

6.
Secure KVM VNC connection using
CA framework
• Uses CloudStack CA framework - KVM only
• TLS authenticated and encrypted connection between CPVM and
guest VM
• All messages CP<>VM secured

7.
Standardized API driven console
access
• New API for console proxying a VM
• One-time session
• Extra security token for session generation

8.
VM Autoscaling
• ScaleUp/Down policies
• De
fi
ne AutoScaler Group: Template, Offering, Network/LB
• Custom counters: CPU, MEM, IN/OUT traf
fi
c, connections
• Group attributes: min/max members, duration/cooldown
min/max members etc.

9.
Loose host anti-af
fi
nity/af
fi
nity group
• Strict af
fi
nity groups
• Non-strict af
fi
nity groups
• ConsiderLastHost

10.
Edge Zones
• Ability to add remote compute resource
• Lightweight zone - no SecStorage, no network con
fi
guration
• Available with local storage and direct download templates
• KVM only

11.
UserData as
fi
rst class resource
• CRUD APIs
• User data entity - name, userdata, parameters, domain, account
• Deploy VM facilitates the changes

12.
UserData as
fi
rst class resource

13.
UserData as
fi
rst class resource

14.
Safe ACS Shutdown Feature
• Shutdown feature from UI
• Safely stop the management server
• Maintenance mode of speci
fi
c management server
• Monitor pending jobs via Infra tab

15.
Logic driven global settings
• Categories
• UI improvements
• Input validation - revert to default

16.
Improve guest OS support framework
• Guest OS management in the UI
• New APIs to facilitate add/remove GuestOSs
• Validation of the mapping per hypervisor support

17.
Additional OS support
• EL9 (Rocky/Oracle Linux 9)
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Both for KVM hosts and management servers

18.
Some more features
• Con
fi
gurable MTU for VR
• Custom DNS per for networks
• 2FA framework - starting with Google Authenticator
• Resource Metrics Framework
• Live Storage Migration for ScaleIO

19.
Bug
fi
xes
• Many bug
fi
xes as part of LTS
• About 90 issues and PRs merged
• About 60 still open

20.
Questions?