Globo chooses CloudStack for its application development & system management platform | Case Studies
Globo.com, part of GRUPO Globo, embraces CloudStack for cloud infrastructure, gaining flexibility, extensibility, and open-source confidence with ShapeBlue’s guidance.
Troubleshooting CloudStack Virtual Routers
Cloudstack’s multi-tenant virtualised networking model is one of its strongest features. Abstracting complex networking concepts and allowing simple UI/API configuration of networks is something loved by users of Cloudstack clouds. But, as an operator/administrator of a Cloudstack cloud you’ll almost certainly have had to troubleshoot network problems – and that means troubleshooting CloudStack’s Virtual Routers […]
European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Day Roundup
Blog by Ivet Petrova, StorPool. On June 13th, StorPool had the honour and privilege to host and organize the European Cloud Infrastructure and CloudStack User Group together with its partner ShapeBlue. The event was a get together of the local IT infrastructure experts and CloudStack users. Main focus were talks presenting best practices and useful information […]
Ceph and CloudStack – Part 2
In the previous article we covered some basics around Ceph and deployed a working Ceph cluster. In this article, we are going to finish the Ceph configuration needed for CloudStack and add it as a new Primary Storage pool. We are also going to deploy Ceph volumes via CloudStack and examine them. Finally, in part […]
Ceph and CloudStack – Part 1
As well as NFS and various block storage solutions for Primary Storage, CloudStack has supported Ceph with KVM for a number of years now. Thanks to some great Ceph users in the community lots of previously missing CloudStack storage features have been implemented for Ceph (and lots of bugs squashed), making it the perfect choice for […]
CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) roundup – London, March 2019
Our first meetup of 2019 saw us at a new venue – Ticketmaster’s London HQ, and if you’re a music lover it certainly takes the prize for coolest meeting venue yet! Walls covered with pictures of rock stars and a stage complete with guitars and Marshall amps (not to mention pinball machines and a bar) […]
Securing CloudStack 4.11 with HTTPS/TLS
Apache CloudStack is generally considered secure out of the box, however it does have the capability of protecting both system VM traffic as well as management traffic with TLS certificates. Prior to version 4.11 CloudStack used Tomcat as the web server and servlet container. With 4.11 this has been changed to embedded Jetty web server […]
What’s coming in the new CloudMonkey 6.0? | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Background The original CloudMonkey was contributed to the Apache CloudStack project on 31 Oct 2012 under the Apache License 2.0. It is written in Python and shipped using the Python CheeseShop, and since its inception has gone through several refactors and rewrites. While this has worked well over the years, the installation and usage have been limited […]
Datacenter Services choose Apache CloudStack to deliver enterprise grade public IaaS cloud
Datacenter Services choose Apache CloudStack for seamless IaaS deployment. ShapeBlue’s expertise ensures a smooth transition to open-source technology, delivering security, scalability, and 100% uptime.
CloudStack European User Group roundup – London, December 2018
There was a definite feel of Christmas in the air in London as we made our way to last Thursday’s (December 13) winter meetup of the Cloudstack European User Group (CSEUG), and that only increased as we arrived at the BT Centre near St. Paul’s and saw the big Christmas tree in reception! A great […]
