ShapeBlue, together with Yotta and LINBIT had the pleasure to support the yearly Apache CloudStack India User Group (CSIUG), which happened in D1 Yotta Data Center in Greater Noida. It was an energy-packed event, bringing together developers, engineers, cloud architects, and contributors from across the region. Held in person, the meetup offered a full day of insightful talks, networking, and hands-on learning — all centered around real-world applications of Apache CloudStack.
ShapeBlue as always is supporting the CloudStack community, with our team contributing several technical sessions and continuing to drive community innovation.
Meetup Kickoff & Welcome – Rohit Yadav, CSIUG Chairman and CTO at ShapeBlue
The day began with attendees connecting and a warm welcome from Rohit Yadav, CSIUG Chairman and CTO at ShapeBlue, who officially kicked off the event and set the tone for a day full of deep technical insights.
The Yotta x CloudStack Advantage: a Scalable, India-First Cloud – Tailored for Sovereignty, Flexibility, Affordability and Innovation – Sunil Gupta, CEO at Yotta
Sunil highlighted the critical role of sovereign clouds in India and how CloudStack enables Yotta to deliver scalable, secure, and compliant cloud services tailored to the Indian market.
Apache CloudStack 201: Let’s Design & Build an IaaS Cloud – Jithin Raju, Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue
A standout session that walked attendees through a live demonstration of building an IaaS cloud from scratch. Jithin provided a clear blueprint for designing and deploying real-world CloudStack environments — a perfect bridge for those moving from basics to production deployments.
Empowering Cloud Providers with Apache CloudStack and Stackbill – Ravichandran Palanisamy, Global Head of Business Development at StackBill
This talk focused on transforming infrastructure into a business platform, showcasing how StackBill layers on top of CloudStack to enable turnkey cloud delivery with improved tenant experience and provider ROI.
Ampere Offers Energy-Efficient Future for AI and Cloud – Vinod Kumar, Sales Director at Ampere Computing
Vinod shared how Ampere’s processors — in partnership with ShapeBlue — are helping reduce power usage and carbon footprint while delivering performance for AI and cloud workloads.
Building and Operating a Private Cloud with CloudStack and LINBIT CloudStack HCI Appliance – Nischal Prabhu, Cloud Engineer at LINBIT
An in-depth look at how LINBIT’s HCI Appliance simplifies private cloud operations, leveraging CloudStack’s orchestration with resilient storage through DRBD and LINSTOR.
CloudStack GPU Integration – Rohit Yadav, CTO at ShapeBlue
Rohit unveiled the latest GPU capabilities in CloudStack, covering passthrough, virtual GPU support, and intelligent scheduling — vital for AI/ML and HPC workloads.
Simplifying End-to-End Apache CloudStack Deployment with a Web-Based Automation Portal – Vivek Kumar, Lead Devops Engineer at Yotta
A technical deep dive into how Yotta has automated complex CloudStack deployments using a custom-built web UI that drives Ansible playbooks interactively.
Extensions Framework (XaaS) – Enabling Orchestrate Anything – Harikrishna Patnala – Lead Software Engineer & Abhishek Kumar – Software Engineer at ShapeBlue
This session demonstrated the flexibility of the new Extensions Framework, allowing operators to integrate custom services, orchestrators, and even third-party hypervisors like Proxmox directly into CloudStack’s lifecycle. A game-changer for extensibility and vendor-neutral operations.
Growing Together
The day concluded with open networking and discussion. From real-world deployments to cutting-edge features, CSIUG 2025 reaffirmed CloudStack’s maturity and ShapeBlue’s ongoing leadership in its evolution.
We’d like to thank all speakers, attendees, and community contributors. And of course, Yotta, who made this event possible by hosting it. We look forward to more collaboration ahead.
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