Dynamic Roles in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction Managing user roles has been a pain for a while, as the model of having a commands.properties file that defines roles and their permissions can be hard to comprehend and use. Due to this, not many CloudStack users made any changes to the default harcoded roles and further enhanced roles. Therefore, ShapeBlue has taken the opportunity to […]
CloudStack EU User Group – April 2017 | Event Roundup
The city of Prague was the venue for the spring meeting of the Cloudstack European user group. There was a great turnout for the meeting and a first count showing 14 different nationalities represented; some people having travelled from as far as Ukraine, UK and France. The event was kindly hosted by Interoute Czech. There […]
Migration away from download.cloud.com to download.cloudstack.org may cause problems in exisiting cloudstack installations and versions
Background Cloudstack relies on a fixed download site when it fetches the built-in guest VM templates. That download site has historically been download.cloud.com and is being replaced by download.cloudstack.org. Download.cloudstack.org is now fully functional. The retirement date of download.cloud.com is unknown but expected to be imminent The issue & behaviour After the retirement of download.cloud.com, […]
Inter-VPC connectivity in CloudStack
Introduction In this article Abhinandan Prateek discusses a method for allowing inter-VPC routing in CloudStack utilising Quagga on the VPC Virtual Router. Please note – this feature is currently in development, this is being considered for release in CloudStack 4.10 (please refer to upcoming release notes for details). In CloudStack a VPC acts as a container for […]
Apache CloudStack 4.9.2 LTS (Long Term Support)
ShapeBlue are delighted to confirm that the latest version of CloudStack is now on our support matrix as a fully supported and recommended version for our customers. We have worked extensively with the CloudStack community on quality control and testing, and this release contains more than 80 bug-fixes and improvements on the CloudStack 4.9 release. […]
CloudStack upgrades – best practices
Introduction Upgrading CloudStack can sometimes be a little daunting – but as the 5P’s proverb goes – Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. With planning, testing and the right strategy upgrades will have a high chance of success and have minimal impact on your CloudStack end users. The CloudStack upgrade process is documented in the release notes for […]
CloudStack European User Group – November 2016 | Event Roundup
Our Winter meetup last Thursday, November 24 found us back in London at the BT Centre Showcase, and as usual Europe was well represented with CloudStack users joining us from all over. After lunch and catching up with friends old and new, Giles Sirett (ShapeBlue CEO and chairman of the user group) called the meetup […]
ShapeBlue contributes native support for Kubernetes and Docker to Apache CloudStack
Offers seamless Container-as-a-Service without disruption to user experience or business process Sevilla, Spain — 17 November 2016 — ShapeBlue, the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies worldwide, today announced at ApacheCon Europe that it will be donating its CloudStack Container Service software to the Apache CloudStack project. The technology integrates CloudStack with Kubernetes and Docker […]
Networking KVM for CloudStack
Introduction KVM hypervisor networking for CloudStack can sometimes be a challenge, considering KVM doesn’t quite have the matured guest networking model found in the likes of VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer. In this blog post we’re looking at the options for networking KVM hosts using bridges and VLANs, and dive a bit deeper into the configuration […]
Installing and Configuring an OCFS2 Clustered File System
Last year we had a project which required us to build out a KVM environment which used shared storage. Most often that would be NFS all the way and very occasionally Ceph. This time however the client already had a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) SAN which had to be used, and the hosts were HP blades […]
