Keynote by Prasanna Santhanam, 1 November 2012, CloudStack Hyderabad Meetup, Lemon Tree, Hyderabad

1. Apache
CloudStack (incubating)
Prasanna Santhanam
tsp@apache.org
Prasanna.Santhanam@citrix.com
How the Apache community works

2. The Apache Foundation
● Open collaborative projects developed under
the umbrella of the ASF
● Provide legal guidance, advice to the
foundation's projects
● Promote Meritocracy

3. Projects
● Top Level Projects
○ Apache HTTP Webserver
○ Apache Tomcat
○ Apache Cassandra
○ Apache Hadoop
● Incubator
○ Apache CloudStack
● Labs
● Attic

4. Roles
● User
● Developer
● Committer
● PPMC - Member and Chair
● ASF Members
● Project Management Committee (PMC)
Many Hats!

5. Yes! the ASF is great!

6. Apache CloudStack status
● In incubation for around 6 months now
● Apache CloudStack 4.0 - Imminent first
release!
● Bugtrackers and Wiki moving to ASF Infra
● Code repos moved to Apache GIT
● Many non-Citrix contributors, committers,
and PPMC members

7. Who's participating
● Caringo contributes object store plugin
● Nicira controller by Hugo
● Ceph/RBD support by Wido
● CLVM for KVM by Marcus
More ...
● CloudEra (Hadoop backed Object Store)
● Midokura (SDN Controller)
● Basho - Object store
● Interests from CloudByte

8. Working towards 4.1
● Improved package management
● DevCloud improvements
● Re-arch, Event handling,
● Storage Re-arch work
● Auto Provisioning via Kickstarts
● Expanding test coverage
● Documentation for all this and more!

9. How to contribute?
● It's not just about code!
○ Discussions - Design, Use Cases, Deployments
○ Documentation
○ Bug Reports and Feature Requests
○ Code Review
○ Feedback
○ Wiki and Website management
○ Build, Tools and Infrastructure
○ Helping out on the IRC
○ Spreading the word
● It's your voice!

10. The future needs you!
● Project website:
○ http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html
○ www.cloudstack.org
● Mailings Lists
(cloudstack-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org,
cloudstack-users-subscribe@incubator.apache.org)
○ All decision making, consensus - [DISCUSS | RFC]
○ Democratic / Voting - [VOTE]
● IRC
○ irc.freenode.net : (#cloudstack, #cloudstack-dev, #cloudstack-
meeting)
○ Wednesday - 10:30 PM IST, 5:00 UTC

11. Apache CloudMonkey