Giles Sirett of ShapeBlue introduces the European Cloudstack user group to the new featues of cloudstack 4.3

1. European CloudStack User Group
Welcome
Giles Sirett
Group Chairman
giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue

2. CEO of ShapeBlue
PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack
Chairman of this group
#WhoAmI ?

3. Thanks to todays sponsors

4. Giles Sirett – Introduction and CloudStack news roundup (13:15-13:55)
Hugo Trippaers – building SDN in CloudStack (14:00-14:40)
BREAK 14:40 – 15:00
John Gillam – BT and CloudStack (15:00-15:40) Geoff Higginbottom – Building a
CloudStack reference architecture Sebastien Goasguen – Amazon EC2 and Google
(15:45-16:20)
GCE support in CloudStack (1620 – 17:00)
17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !
Agenda

5. Collaborative environment for:
all things CloudStack/ CloudPlatform
Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc
Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
Case studies & ideas
To showcase complementary technologies
To give a strong voice for feedback to Apache developer
community
No pitching !
The aims of this group

6. Apache CloudStack 4.3 has arrived
Unprecedented 9 (nine) rounds of voting
Hyper- V support
Now supports: Xen, KVM, ESXi, OVM, BM and hyper-V
Palo Alto firewall integration
Configure as network service provider
CloudStack News…

7. Dynamic compute offerings
Suitable for “sliding scale” vCPU/mem configs
N-tier apps 2.0
Site to site VPN between VR’s (zone to zone VPN)
LDAP enhancements
Multiple LDAP servers
Browse directories
CloudStack News…..

8. Change to HTTP access to console proxy and
secondary storage VM
Now HTTP by default in 4.3
Beware previous versions
For HTTPS, need to run your own DNS for HTTPS
RealHostIP shutting down June 30
CloudStack News…..

9. Community continues
to grow
Meet-ups getting
bigger
200+ active
contributors, 7o+
organisations
Now 72 86 committers
CloudStack News…..

10. Business community continues to mature
Major vendor involvement
More users “backing” Cloudstack
Will be helped as Citrix align CloudPlatform with core
offerings
CloudStack News…..

11. We still have an awareness problem

12. CloudStack Users

13. CloudStack Users 2.0

14. 14
CloudStack Users 3.0

15. Just a reminder on the real world
20132012

16. And another….

17. Lets learn from Japan

18. Lets learn from Japan

19. Lets learn from Japan

20. Lets learn from Japan

21. Lets learn from Japan

22. What’s so different about Japan ?
日本の優れた人々は、言語と文化の違いによって、
他の国のような執拗なOpenStackのマーケティングと
同じレベルにさらされていない。彼らはそのメリッ
トに基づくテクノロジを選択する可能性が高い
Lets learn from Japan
The good people of Japan, through differences in language & culture, have not be
exposed to the same level of relentless openstack marketing as other countries.
They are more likely to choose technology based on its merits

23. Support the community
Spread the word!
Align your business with the technology – tell the world!
Help your company realise the benefits of community
involvement
Sponsor events
Volunteers always welcome at Apache...
So, what can we do to help

24. Get involved
Developers
Documentation
Just helping people out
Subscribe to:
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dev@cloudstack.apache.org
The Apache CloudStack Community

25. CloudStack Collab NA 2014

26. 400+ registrations & counting
Over 60 CloudStack sessions
Tutorials & Bootcamp training
Co-located with ApacheCon
Next EU Collab in Autumn (again, with ApacheCon)
CloudStack Collab NA 2014

27. Sebastien Goasguen –
Amazon EC2 and Google
GCE support in
CloudStack
Next speaker..