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We will be happy to host a CloudStack Hackathon during the CloudStack Collaboration Conference. The Hackathon will start on the first event day and will continue throughout the whole event. However, the Hackathon Room will be open only on certain hours. Please, check the event agenda, so that you can get the right timing. Hackathon results will be announced at the last event day, before the official closing.
Government Digital Services have brought a revolution in how nations communicate with their citizens and enable entire countries to become more socially, financially and digitally inclusive. Digital India is a flagship program of the Government of India with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It was conceptualized to ensure government service are readily available to the citizens in every corner of the nation through a robust online infrastructure and extensive connectivity network. CSC E-Governance has been on the forefront when it comes to realizing the goals of Digital India through strengthening of governmental service delivery, streamlining beneficiary interactions, and enabling community participation & collective action. The extensive and far-reaching CSC network with 4 lakh village level entrepreneurs across 29 states and 7 union territories across India, makes us an agent of social change through a bottom-up approach with key focus on the rural populace. In this keynote, Abhishek Ranjan will talk about the strategy & vision of Common Service Centers to become a dependent and reliable network of citizen service points connecting people with government programmes and businesses which is changing the shape of rural India.
In this talk, Giles Siret, PMC Member of Apache CloudStack and Chairman, CloudStack European User Group will present the new capabilities and features of CloudStack 4.16.
Ceph is the leading open source software defined storage solution. As an extremely portable and flexible way to deploy object, block, and file storage, it's an ideal candidate to use as a backing store for virtualisation platforms. In many ways Ceph fits alongside CloudStack like a hand in a glove. In this talk I will provide a brief introduction to Ceph, and how you can use it to integrate with CloudStack.
Speaker 1: Harikrishna Patnala Speaker 2: Nicolas Vazquez This talk introduces the recent changes on the Vmware vSphere integration with CloudStack. These changes make the CloudStack vSphere integration more efficient and extend it by introducing many features which were not supported by CloudStack and would be beneficial to the operators of vSphere-based CloudStack clouds. The vSphere integration improves different operations benefiting from the new implementations of the vSphere native AP, for operations such as VM migrations, snapshots, deployment. Apart from the improvements on the existing operations, it now also supports new storage types: vSAN, VMFS6 and VVOLs. Also, it introduces the storage management concepts of Datastore Clusters and Storage Policies into Cloudstack. It also brings support to deploying virtual appliances with a new optional mode of deployment (deploy-as-is) as if they were deployed directly from vSphere, meaning that CloudStack supports different deployment options, configurations, vApp properties, etc; which are parsed from the template OVF file descriptor.
Cloud computing has established itself as a unique paradigm to deliver computing as utility to a wide range of scientific, enterprise, government, industrial and consumer applications. However, there were much concern in both industry and academia about security, performance, resource and usage monitoring for cloud applications. CloudStack has a long proven track record, vibrant community and extensive online documentation. However, topics such as security monitoring, resource usage, host metrics, application metrics and IP address allocation in the cloud are still highly under investigated and poorly covered. In this talk, we consider a typical SMB private cloud use case with Apache CloudStack as a cloud orchestration tool. We are going to show how to set up Prometheus metrics exporter and visualize a critical cloud application metrics with Grafana. We will run a live monitoring for important resources like CPU/RAM/Storage usage, IP pools usage and VM metrics.
CloudMC is an edge orchestration platform which specialises in the productization of infrastructure services, such as CloudStack. In this demo we will show how CloudMC can orchestrate both Kubernetes and CloudStack, in a self-serve multi-tenant environment. Additionally, we will illustrate how CloudMC helps monetise your services through the use of a product catalogue, pricing, reporting, and reseller functionality which includes custom branding. Come see how CloudMC can help you take your CloudStack services to market.
‘State of the (CloudStack) Union’, talking about latest releases and features, the community, and how CloudStack is evolving. Learn more for how the community is growing, which companies adopted CloudStack recently, how the market dynamics is changing and more.
Historically, the Apache CloudStack community has relied on Travis and Trillian for development, QA and CI/CD purposes. mbx is a next-gen CI/CD tool for CloudStack that allows building packages and deploying nested CloudStack dev-test environments on KVM using pre-built templates. This demo-oriented talk will review CI/CD automation tools in the community, what led to the development of mbx, and go through the different features and use-cases of mbx.
The goal of this session is to demonstrate the deployment of a virtual infrastructure from the hypervisor, XCP-ng to the deployment of the datacenter management too - Cloudstack.
This session walks attendees through the idea of using Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes to orchestrate and run a production-ready CloudStack deployment, across bare-metal and virtualised infrastructure with minimal human operator involvement. We'll also discuss the pros and cons of such an approach vis-a-vis the traditional method where CloudStack's management server and compute nodes are deployed directly on nodes without containers.
From telecoms to managed service providers, many companies are seeking to capture market share within the fast growing cloud computing market. One of the largest challenges service providers face is around how to best assemble a portfolio of cloud services that they can deliver, operate and chargeback for through a normalized user interface and APIs. Building on the strong foundations of CloudStack, cloud.ca, a regional Canadian cloud provider has been using CloudMC as their platform for many years to service the cloud needs of over one hundred business customers, spanning multiple industry verticals (ie. public sector, healthcare and life sciences, financial institutions and SaaS companies). This presentation is for service providers who want to assemble, deliver, operate and monetize cloud services leveraging CloudStack, as well as complementary cloud services (ie. bare metal, object storage, hyperscale clouds, kubernetes, etc.) to meet the evolving needs of their business customers.
CloudStack supports multiple options for primary storage - local storage, NFS, Ceph, iSCSI, etc. Not all types of storage support all features on all hypervisors. Live migration between different storages is also not widely supported. In this presentation, we’ll show the capabilities and limitations of the most popular storage types and will present the new options of live storage migration between some of the storage types that are currently under development by our company.
Many web hosting company who are into the business of selling dedicated servers have their own hardware's but they don't have a easy entry into the Public Cloud since they don't have a cost effective Management portal to offer to their customers. We have already started the development of a ACS Management Portal which is going to be very cost effective and easy for the companies who want's to make entry into Selling Public Cloud using CloudStack. We will be offering it at very optimal cost with very user friendly UI/UX.
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is rapidly changing the networking landscape, virtual network functions (VNFs) are replacing classical hardware based network functions and moving the 'brains' of the network from dedicated hardware to virtual machines. The rise of VNFs allows for complex network functions to be deployed to locations previously inaccessible at the edge of networks, allowing for enterprises to control their networks at the border and not only at the core, which is especially important with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical systems (CPSs). VNFs can be used for functions such as routers, load balancers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices (IPS/IDS), WAN accelerators, VPN endpoints, SD-WAN, session border controllers, route reflectors and many others. Apache Cloudstack can be leveraged in order to enable and automate the deployment of VNFs in datacentres and at the edge, ACS can also consume VNFs driven networks by using SD-WAN, WAN optimization and other technologies to create the underlying networking infrastructure on top of which ACS stands.
System-relevant institutions, especially those that operate critical infrastructures, face a wide range of challenges: Immensely sensitive data, high certification requirements for service providers, and they must be able to fulfill the permanent functioning of IT systems with multiple emergency scenarios. However, their legacy systems are often outdated and the modernization of IT landscapes is much more complex than in the free, non-regulated economy. This is exactly where open source technologies can be a solution to various requirements and challenges. Sven Vogel outlines the problem horizon and shows how cloudstack technology comes into play.
CloudStack is a great platform to run your Database as a Service (DBaaS). The platform provides a plethora of infrastructure features to help make your life easier - we will dig into the features/assets that you should be actively leveraging. In this talk, we will talk about how ScaleGrid, a Database as a Service solution, integrates with CloudStack. We will also discuss the common architecture patterns you need to have in place to be successful with your databases on CloudStack, including high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), scaling, performance etc.
A quick introduction on how to setup a Linstor Cluster and integrate it as a primary storage-pool for Cloudstack. Rene Peinthor was one of the first developers seeing a DRBD resource deployed by LINSTOR and is software developer at LINBIT since 2017. He started his carrer in the IT/Software developement business in 2005 and has experience in most programming languages and all kind of environments.
In this workshop, we will show how to configure the underlying OS and install Apache CloudStack, using KVM as the hypervisor. We will configure the required underlying networking (i.e. the ethernet and bridge interfaces) in order to support an Advanced Zone with 2 physical networks. The workshop is intended for novice users who are new to Apache CloudStack and/or KVM.
In the previous CCC talk 'The Future of CloudStack VR' by the same speaker, several virtual router and networking improvements, ideas and changes were discussed. This talk is a continuation of same story in which a completely new design and implementation of the next-gen VR will be discussed along with some proof-of-concept demos that aspires to address the issues around CloudStack upgrades, operation, maintenance and development using a new VR agent and a new approach to systemvm template management.
StorPool is a leading software provider that develops the most reliable and speedy storage platform on the market. The software comes as an utterly hands-off solution - we architect, deploy, tune, monitor, and maintain your StorPool Storage system so that your users experience a speedy and reliable service. StorPool has a native plug-in for CloudStack and it is the ideal solution for companies that aim to optimize and grow their business, eliminate data storage issues, or secure fast and reliable access to data to achieve their business goals.
Session will provide an introduction to VM ingestion feature in CloudStack for VMware hypervisor, giving details about importing and un-managing virtual machines. As the ingestion feature was added in 4.14 release, session will cover the improvements and changes been since its addition. It will also give details about the recent changes especially with the UI making importing and un-managing VMs a much simpler process. Finally, the session will discuss future of VM import including support for other hypervisors and the concept of 'Tools' in Apache CloudStack to board/migrate an existing infra.
LINSTOR is a storage orchestrator for Linux that builds useful storage stacks from the well-established building blocks on Linux: LVM, Software RAID, LUKS/DM-crypt, NVMe-oF Target & Initiator, DRBD, ZFS, VDO, and more. With that, it provides persistent, high performant storage volumes for virtual machines in a CloudStack cloud. It is known to scales to many hundreds of physical hypervisor nodes. It goes beyond in-data center synchronous replication by providing async replication (continuous snapshot difference shipping) between data centers and backup to S3 storage functionalities. CloudStack now comes with a Storage Plugin for LINSTOR that seamlessly integrates these two Open-Source gems.
How to build a large scale flexible and reliable network infrastructure using BGP, VXLAN and IPv6 underneath your CloudStack KVM deployment. Deploy like the hyperscalers do!
Session about GSoC, Apache and Cloudstack projects in it. I will be showing what were the projects and the students and mentors involved. Some of the features are: Cloning VM, Sync on network devices, multiple ssh keys and UX improvements
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next generation Internet Protocol which is intended to solve the IPv4 address exhaustion problem and replace IPv4 eventually. CloudStack supports IPv6 in basic zone and shared networks in Advanced zone. We are working on support IPv6 in isolated networks and VPC networks in advanced zone. In this talk, we will introduce what we have tested and discussed in mailing list, including the IPv6 routing (static routing, dynamic routing) and IPv6 addressing, and our development plan to support IPv6. We will explain the design and give a demo of IPv6 static routing in isolated networks and VPC. We aim to have the feature in CloudStack future releases.
What are the challenges to expect when operating a public cloud with Apache Cloudstack? This talk is about sharing personal experience on operating a public cloud over multiple years. Challenge of keeping customers up while upgrading infrastructure, upgrade frequency of CloudStack, improving releasing, running from custom branch; challenge and solutions to stay on latest branch vs periodic rebase.
Currently, CloudStack supports various managed storages, such as SolidFire, Ceph, Datera, etc as the primary storages through their respective storage plugins. Dell EMC PowerFlex (previously known as VxFlexOS and ScaleIO), a distributed shared block storage, is one of the unsupported storages. The support for it as a managed primary storage was recently introduced in CloudStack, for KVM hypervisor. In this talk, Suresh will provide the insights of the PowerFlex storage plugin integration in CloudStack and give a demo of some of the supported VM and Volume operations using the PowerFlex storage pool.
CSC E-Governance India is leading the game in bringing digital inclusion across the nation, & is a crucial enabler of the Digital India Programme. In this talk we would explore how it is harnessing the power of Apache cloudstack to underpin the service delivery, discuss on the reasons for selection of the technology, the benefits cloudstack brings to them as an organization and the challenges faced using cloudstack.
Deployment and management of Kubernetes(K8S) clusters is hard, and managing clusters across different cloud platforms has proven to be an even bigger challenge considering each provider has their own choice of tooling for deploying K8S Clusters. The Kubernetes community saw a need to devise a standardized way to deploy and manage clusters across different infrastructures. Thus, the Kubernetes SIG Cluster Lifecycle created the Cluster API project - which addresses these challenges. It provides a declarative Kubernetes-style pattern to automate cluster deployments. Some of the top cloud providers have extended this model to facilitate consistent and repeatable deployments across infrastructures. With CloudStack adopting this Kubernetes-native style for cluster deployment, one will be able to provision their clusters with minimal effort and will encourage users to manage Kubernetes workloads in hybrid / multi-cloud environments.
An introduction to CloudStack and our journey: - Available Orchestrators and CloudStack advantage (Which includes simplicity and functionalities) - CloudStack’s Importance with community support - Multi-tenancy to offer Public and Private cloud - Network isolation which ensure secured environment - On demand Storage with scalable/flexible storage. - Load Balancing, Flexible IPs, Firewall - Designing of Zone, POD, Cluster and Host. (To manage different Datacenter/cluster with single portal.) - Image management - User friendly CloudStack Portal Rapid product deployment with the help of CloudStack: - API with documentation: Ease for the development of our customer portal, following are some of the features that were deployed with the help of CloudStack: Autoscaling Schedule OneClick App Development of Billing usage feature on our portal.
Since the addition of CloudStack Kubernetes Service, users can deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in CloudStack. This not only makes CloudStack a more versatile and multifaceted application, but also reduces the gap between virtualization and containerization. As CKS matures, new featues are added to provide a holistic and comprehensive Kubernetes managed service. This session is a feature first of the new functionalities added to CKS which include native support for cluster autoscaling, official support of CloudStack as a provider and others. It consists of walkthroughs, demos as well as business benefits with these new additions.
In this talk, Sina Kashipazha, Software Engineer at Leaseweb will present their approach on migrating CloudStack between 2 different datacenters, where they performed live migration of VM including root and data disk(s) to the new site. Leaseweb is a leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider serving a worldwide portfolio of 20,000 customers ranging from SMBs to Enterprises. Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, Cyber Security Services, and Dedicated Servers supported by exceptional customer service and technical support.
Open-source projects solve complex problems via a network of contributors across the world. Being part of such a big project is awesome, but it can be really challenging for a new contributor to get acquainted with the project. This presentation shows the shortcuts and points out some of the aspects involved on the side of those who contribute to the Apache CloudStack. This talk will also showcase how anyone can contribute, from (Java, Python, NodeJS, etc) to developers or system admins to end-users. Anyone who's interested in contributing to Apache CloudStack but it is still figuring out where to start can benefit from this talk.
