Presentation about Apache CloudStack 4.1 and 4.2 for the CloudStack NYC Meetup group on April 10th, 2013.

1. 4.1, 4.2 and Beyond!
Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF
chipchilders@apache.org | Twitter: @chipchilders | IRC: chipc on freenode
http://chipchilders.com

2. Hi, I’m Chip.
Nice to meet you.
Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF
chipchilders@apache.org | Twitter: @chipchilders | IRC: chipc on freenode
http://chipchilders.com

3. 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

4. But first, a bit about
the 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!

5. 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!

6. 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

7. 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…

8. New Features in 4.1
API, 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

9. New Features in 4.1
Networking:
 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

10. New Features in 4.1
Compute:
 Support for passing custom VMX settings to vSphere on VM
create
 Adding and removing Virtual NICs from VMs
 Reset SSH key within a VM

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

12. 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)

13. A sampling of New Features
coming in 4.2…
 Midonet and BigSwitch SDN  Zone-wide primary storage
integrations  Security group isolation in
 Enhanced Baremetal Advanced Network zones
provisioning  Dedicating resources to domains
 VM I/O Throttling and accounts
 Hyper-V 2012 Support  IP Address reservation w/o a
 LXC Support vNIC allocation
 Cisco VSG integration  Improved synchronization
 Cisco ASA 1000V between CloudStack and what’s
actually running on the hosts
 VM Affinity Rules
 vSphere DVS support
 Eliminate NFS layer for S3
secondary storage  UI Plugin framework

14. We’re just getting started
though…

15. Enough about us, let’s talk
about you!

16. 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

17. Thanks!
(any questions?)
Slides posted on slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/chipchilders/
Chip Childers, Principal Engineer @SungardAS & VP Apache CloudStack @TheASF
chipchilders@apache.org | Twitter: @chipchilders | IRC: chipc on freenode
http://chipchilders.com