CloudStack Roadmap
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Prior to 3.0, features and bugfixes often accompanied every CloudStack release, and often a new release occurred every month. Going forward, CloudStack is adopting a ~6 month release cycle. Of course bugfix releases will continue to be released as needed, but should not incorporate any additional features. A quick caveat here: these features and the schedule are of course subject to change. Development priorities, particularly in open source software projects often change, so no guarantees.

Status quo:

Hypervisors Supported:

  • KVM
  • XenServer
  • XCP
  • VMware
[Hyper-V support has been requested and will be tracked in Feature Enhancement 4061]

Networking Features:

  • DHCP
  • Routing
  • Management of certain external network hardware (loadbalancer, firewall, etc)
  • VLAN
  • Security Groups
  • VPN
  • Firewall

Current Feature Laundry List

  • Cross-hypervisor support (multiple hypervisors supported in the same cloud)
  • High Availability
  • Overprovisioning
  • Gorgeous Web UI
  • Stable RESTful API with output in XML or JSON
  • Scalable to 20,000 physical compute nodes
  • Ability to manage geographically disparate compute clouds from a single management interface.

2.2.13

3.0 (Acton) targeted Q4 2011

See the full list of bugs and new features here. Here are some highlights from feature targets for this release:

Object Storage integration for Secondary Storage  (test plan, func spec)

Network as a Service  (bug: 8903, 11817)

XenServer 6.0 Support

Projects (allowing users to collaborate and share resources) (bug: 8620 ) 

NetScaler integration (bug: 11417, 11567)

Fine-grained resource reservation limits

Usability/UI enhancements

Security enhancements

LDAP/AD Authentication

Clustered LVM support

 

3.1 (Bonita)  targeted Q1 2012

This is still very much in the planning stages as of this writing, feel free to see the full list here, however the current highlights are:

Support for vSphere 5
XenServer OpenvSwitch support
Distributed vSwitch support for VMware

3.2 (Campo) - targeted Q2 2012

This release is still very much in the planning stages as of this writing:

Advanced Cloud Deployments (Regions, Cloud Zones)

Autoprovisioning network services (i.e. deploy a new Load Balancer for every 10 addresses being load balanced) 

IPv6 support (including dual-stack addressing)

vApps and IT Governance (group multiple VMs for a single application, VM affinity)

Enhanced VMware platform support (DRS, Storage vMotion, FT, etc)

Hyper-V support

Snapshot replication across availability-zones

 

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