Head in the Clouds

Since we made the announcement of licensing and governance shift a few weeks back we've been inundated with requests for developer support from individuals and companies who want to develop, extend, integrate with or just hack on CloudStack. Lots of those requests were coming with requests to visit developers in person to get up to speed as rapidly as possible. After setting up several of those meetings in person, we realized it wasn't beginning to sate demand, so in reaction we decided to run a two day event decided to rapidly on-ramp folks, we put the agenda in the hands of two of CloudStack's lead developers/architects. What came out of that is the 'Developer On-ramp - two days of no-fluff CloudStack development and integration - lots of hands on work.. It's free to attend, you just need to register here.

Agenda:

Day 1: Everyone

9:30-12:00 - General CloudStack Architecture
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-14:00 - Storage deep dive
14:00-15:00 - Failure modes, H/A, maintenance planning
15:00-15:30 - Break 
15:30-17:00 - Networking deep dive
17:00-17:30 - Show and tell - see what others in the community are working on
17:30-18:30 - Beer

Day 2- Integrators

9:30-12:00 - CloudStack API deep dive.
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-14:00 - Development environment access 
14:00-17:00 - Building a sample app (bring your own ideas if you want)

Day 2 - Core developers

9:30-10:30 - Setup to contribute (git, IDE, patches, devel environment)
10:30-12:00 - Writing tests, simulator
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-14:00 - Hypervisor and bare metal management
14:00-15:00 - Scalability
15:00-15:30 - Break
15:30-17:00 - Freeform hands on hacking time - (bring your own ideas or squash bugs)

With CloudStack Acton now released, there's precious little time to stop and rest. Instead, we are already rapidly working on the next CloudStack release, codenamed Bonita.


As part of this release we are making a concerted effort to make the entire CloudStack development process far more transparent and inclusive. I do ask that you be patient with us in this process, the level of cultural change is massive. The first step is to at least let folks know what's going on - and Haroon (The project manager for the project) will be posting meeting minutes, status updates, etc. on the cloudstack-devel mailing list. Once we have communication down we'll work on making things far more inclusive and participatory.

So for Bonita - the status from a PM view will be here:
http://confluence.cloudstack.org/display/RelOps/Bonita

You'll also note that Haroon has published meeting minutes from the few meetings that have occurred; for instance you can see Bonita Kick Off Meeting:
http://confluence.cloudstack.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1344273

We welcome your participation as we start work on this release.

After many months of hard work and long weekend hours, we are finally releasing the Acton release.

This is the first major CloudStack release since our 2.2.x series and it includes many new features such as:

- - Network as a Service
- - Projects
- - LDAP Support
- - Openstack Swift Support
- - Netscaler MPX/VPX/SDX Support
- - vSphere 5.0 Support
- - XenServer 6.0 Support
- - Brand spanking new User Interface
- - and many others

I want to take a moment and thank the community for all of their help. The beta process resulted in hundreds of community discovered and reported bugs. This release also had a far greater level of non-Citrix contribution, from bug fixes and even some major feature contribution.

You can find the binaries here: http://bit.ly/x2svsr

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CloudStack is please to announce the release of version 2.2.14. This
release is largely a bugfix release.

While most of our development effort seems to have been directed at
the upcoming Acton (3.0) release as seen by the plethora of
pre-release builds, we have continued to work on the 2.2 CloudStack
releases, fixing bugs and increasing stability.

You can find binaries here:
http://bit.ly/ziBbrE


Release notes (PDF) are here:
http://bit.ly/xbOHCo

You will note that the community has added Portuguese and French
language support to the UI

You will also note that there are separate binaries for EL6.0, EL6.1 and
EL6.2, please make the correct choice if applicable.

The latest version of the CloudStack Acton beta builds is now out and available for consumption.

Things should be getting into pretty good shape now as we wind our way closer to GA.

You can find the binaries here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloudstack/files/Pre-release%20software/Acton_beta_feb1/

You'll also notice several new documents, the first is the new features document showing off all of the cool stuff in Acton, the second is the Admin guide, which has been long awaited by many folks.

Please help test this release - the more bugs we find now, the less that will exist in GA. As always test things that are important to you, but please also consider testing:

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