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 […]
CloudStack Test Automation with Trillian and Jenkins
In the previous post, we introduced and described Trillian that can build various environments in which we could deploy a CloudStack zone and run Marvin based integration tests. In this post, we’ll describe how we are using Jenkins and Trillian to test CloudStack builds in various environments. Build Pipeline Our build pipeline can be seen in the attached […]
CloudStack Container Service – Available for Download
Today we are delighted to announce General Availability of CloudStack Container Service (CCS): software that gives Cloud Service Providers a Container as a Service (CaaS) offering within their existing IaaS environments.. The software is immediately available for trial or commercial license. After the first release of the CloudStack Container Service in May, we have had […]
Trillian: Flexible, On-Demand Cloud Environment Creation
Marvin: “I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.” Trillian: “Well, we have something that may take your mind off it.” Marvin: “It won’t work, I have an exceptionally large mind.“ Trillian was born from the need for us to create environments which we could run CloudStack’s Marvin test framework against, but the […]
CloudStack European User Group – June 2016 | Event Roundup
The Summer meetup on June 16 found us in Berlin, hosted by our friends from BIT.group. One of the reasons for meeting here was to build the CloudStack community in Germany and the surrounding countries, and with all tickets for the event reserved, we certainly achieved that with a packed room! People from all over […]
Granular Access Controls in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
An oft-cited limitation in Apache CloudStack is the lack of granular access controls. Historically, when creating an account, there have been four built-in roles to choose from: Root Admin, Resource Admin, Domain Admin, and User. Unfortunately, these built-in roles have been insufficient for the needs of many organizations, who have resorted to various workarounds. Thankfully, this will change in […]
Webinars: Delivering Containers as a Service with CloudStack Container Service | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
The CloudStack Container Service allows service providers and enterprises to create a Container as a Service offering quickly and easily in their existing IaaS environments. ShapeBlue in conjunction with Skippbox are delighted to announce a series of educational webinars to explore this new technology and introduce the tools and techniques used to allow your users […]
Shapeblue harness the power of Kubernetes and CloudStack to give Cloud Service providers a seamless Container as a Service offering
Shapeblue, The CloudStack Company, and Skippbox today announced the first release of the CloudStack Container Service: software that gives Cloud Service Providers a Container as a Service (CaaS) offering within their existing IaaS environments. The software gives end-users the ability to use multiple container engines such as Docker and rkt, and hosted container registries like […]
