Entries by Rohit Yadav

What’s new in CloudMonkey 5.3.0? | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive

The Apache CloudStack community recently released CloudMonkey 5.3.0. In this post, Rohit Yadav Software Architect at ShapeBlue talks about this release and his work on the new server profile feature. For more information on CloudMonkey and its usage click here. At ShapeBlue we offer CloudStack infrastructure support and in doing so we rely heavily on tools such as CloudMonkey which is the official Apache CloudStack command line interface and client. CloudMonkey allows us to quickly slice and dice API outputs, and to find the issue without using the CloudStack web UI. This release aimed to become the greatest release ever with supporting unicode strings […]

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Public CloudStack Packages

ShapeBlue , today, announced that we will be publicly hosting our public CloudStack repository and SystemVM templates. But why have we decided to do this ? Access to our CloudStack product patches Part of ShapeBlue’s CloudStack Software Engineering services, we provide a product patching service to our customers where we  take an official CloudStack release that our customer is running in production and apply bugfixes or enhancements. We try do this work publicly and contribute to the upstream CloudStack project, unless requested by the customer to keep it private. After the whole process of building and testing internally, we package a testing […]

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SAML2 in Apache CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive

In this post, Rohit Yadav, Software Architect at ShapeBlue talks about  his work on the recent implementation of SAML 2.0 based Single Sign-On (SSO) and Single Log-Out (SLO) for Apache CloudStack As part of the ShapeBlue Software Engineering Team, I work on both CloudStack feature  requests for our customers and vendor integrations for CloudStack. However, we  do sometimes identify features that we feel are just simply missing from CloudStack.  They’re missing because no one customer/user has ever had a strong enough need to either develop them or to ask a company like ours to develop them;  these are the “nice to haves”.  So, we’ve […]

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Simple CloudStack Deployment with KVM hosts

In this post Rohit Yadav, Software Architect, at ShapeBlue talks about setting up a Apache CloudStack (ACS)  cloud on a single host with KVM and basic networking. This can be done on a VM or a physical host. Such a deployment can be useful in evaluating CloudStack locally and can be done in less than 30 minutes. Note: this should work for ACS 4.3.0 and above. This how-to post may get outdated in future, so please read the latest docs and/or read the latest docs on KVM host installation. First install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 on a baremetal host or a VM that […]

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Introducing Server Profiles in CloudStack CloudMonkey | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive

The Apache CloudStack community recently released CloudMonkey 5.2.0. In this post, Rohit Yadav Software Architect at ShapeBlue talks about this release and his work on the new server profile feature. For more information on CloudMonkey and its usage click here. At ShapeBlue we offer CloudStack infrastructure support and in doing so we rely heavily on tools such as CloudMonkey which is the official Apache CloudStack command line interface and client. CloudMonkey allows us to quickly slice and dice API outputs, and to find the issue without using the CloudStack web UI. We use CloudMonkey to interact with different CloudStack deployments but, prior to this release,  every time we […]

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Introducing Server Profiles in CloudStack CloudMonkey

The Apache CloudStack community recently released CloudMonkey 5.2.0. In this post, Rohit Yadav Software Architect at ShapeBlue talks about this release and his work on the new server profile feature. For more information on CloudMonkey and its usage click here. At ShapeBlue we offer CloudStack infrastructure support and in doing so we rely heavily on tools such as CloudMonkey which is the official Apache CloudStack command line interface and client. CloudMonkey allows us to quickly slice and dice API outputs, and to find the issue without using the CloudStack web UI. We use CloudMonkey to interact with different CloudStack deployments but, prior to this release,  every time we […]

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