CloudStack Managed UserData – Automating Cloud Services by Maintaining Compliance Policies
UserData is an industry-standard used in IaaS cloud computing and has become a standard tool for cloud administrators and users alike. It provides…
CloudStack Managed User Data l CloudStack Feature First Look
Introduction
When launching a new Instance on Apache CloudStack, users can set a UserData script to be executed by cloud-init during the boot process.…
When launching a new Instance on Apache CloudStack, users can set a UserData script to be executed by cloud-init during the boot process.…
Edge Zones l CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
Edge computing is the talk of the town these days. With the impetus on lowering infrastructure costs, concerns about data protection policies…
Edge computing is the talk of the town these days. With the impetus on lowering infrastructure costs, concerns about data protection policies…
Service Elasticity with CloudStack Autoscaling
Autoscaling enables the automatic adjustment of allocated cloud resources based on traffic spikes and usage patterns. When unused, resources are rigidly…
What’s New in Apache CloudStack 4.18
Apache CloudStack 4.18 is the latest release of the cloud management platform from the Apache Software Foundation and is a result of months of work…
Leveraging Apache CloudStack for Edge Computing
What is Edge Computing?
Edge computing is a distributed computing architecture that brings computing capabilities to the network's periphery, closer…
Edge computing is a distributed computing architecture that brings computing capabilities to the network's periphery, closer…
Reflecting on my Years at ShapeBlue l Meet The Team
Hi everyone, my name is Nicolas Vazquez and I have been working as a software engineer at ShapeBlue for about 5 years now. I live in Uruguay, in Latin…
New to the Community l Meet The Team
Hello all, my name is Jamie Pell. I am from the UK, but I am currently based in Phuket, Thailand. I joined ShapeBlue in March as a Marketing Specialist…
CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 Hybrid Event Roundup
Taking place on 14th-16th November 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 was a hybrid get-together for the global CloudStack…
Kubernetes CAPI Provider for Apache CloudStack by Amazon Web Services and ShapeBlue
The Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) provider for Apache CloudStack allows Kubernetes users to build and manage resources on Apache CloudStack. The provider…
CloudStack Integrations: StorPool Storage – High-performance Primary Storage Platform
Cloud builders worldwide - Managed Services Providers, Hosting Services Providers, Cloud Services Providers, Enterprises, and SaaS Vendors…
VMware Abstraction Using Apache CloudStack
The hypervisor market is in a state of flux. For over a decade, VMware has entrenched itself as the gold-standard virtualisation platform for enterprises.…
ShapeBlue Has Become an Employee-Owned Business
Today we announcе that ShapeBlue is now a 100% employee-owned business: owned by all of its employees, for the benefit of all of those employees.
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Press Release: ShapeBlue, the CloudStack company, has become an Employee Owned Business
LONDON, Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ShapeBlue, the CloudStack company, today announced that it has become a 100% employee-owned business: owned…
Manage Network Permission l CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
In Apache CloudStack, users are organized into a logical structure of Accounts and Domains. In previous versions of Apache CloudStack each…
In Apache CloudStack, users are organized into a logical structure of Accounts and Domains. In previous versions of Apache CloudStack each…
Self-service Shared Networks l CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
In Apache CloudStack it is possible to deploy three types of Guest Networks: Isolated, VPC and Shared Networks. Previously in Apache CloudStack,…
In Apache CloudStack it is possible to deploy three types of Guest Networks: Isolated, VPC and Shared Networks. Previously in Apache CloudStack,…
System VM and Virtual Router Zero Downtime Upgrade l CloudStack Feature First Look
Introduction
Apache CloudStack has always been easier to upgrade than many of its competitors, but a common pain point is that when a new release of…
Apache CloudStack has always been easier to upgrade than many of its competitors, but a common pain point is that when a new release of…
IPv6 Support for Isolated and VPC Networks l CloudStack Feature First Look
The IPv6 protocol is a much-needed next step in the world of the Internet and networking in general. With the depletion of publicly routable IPv4 addresses,…
Flexible Service Offerings l CloudStack Feature First Look
Introduction
Apache CloudStack Service Offerings are sets of capabilities that a CloudStack admin makes available to users, defining Instance, Volume…
Apache CloudStack Service Offerings are sets of capabilities that a CloudStack admin makes available to users, defining Instance, Volume…
ShapeBlue Security Advisory for CVE-2022-35741: XXE vulnerability in SAML 2.0 Service Provider Plugin for CloudStack
18 July 2022 13:30 UTC
Versions Affected
Any version of Apache CloudStack >= 4.5 (including currently supported versions: 4.16.0, 4.16.1, 4.17)
Scope
Any…
Versions Affected
Any version of Apache CloudStack >= 4.5 (including currently supported versions: 4.16.0, 4.16.1, 4.17)
Scope
Any…
Structured System Events l CloudStack Feature First Look
The events notification framework is a key component of Apache CloudStack, facilitating traceability of operations, and enabling cloud operators to automate…
ShapeBlue Advisory on Libvirt 8+ Compatibility Issues with CloudStack
Overview
As of the 4.15 release, CloudStack has supported various EL8 operating systems / hypervisors, namely RHEL 8, CentOS 8, Rocky Linux 8 (and…
As of the 4.15 release, CloudStack has supported various EL8 operating systems / hypervisors, namely RHEL 8, CentOS 8, Rocky Linux 8 (and…
CloudStack and ShapeBlue Help DIMSI to Deliver Public Cloud Solutions
For businesses entering the public cloud market, finding the software and partners that enable rapid deployment for their customers can be a…
What’s New in Apache CloudStack 4.17
* The content in this blog is a reproduction from the Apache CloudStack 4.17 release blog, which can be viewed via this link.
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New Server Status and Metric Views l CloudStack Feature First Look
Overview
In CloudStack 4.17 a brief overview of the status of various services can be retrieved. This includes information on the Management Server(s),…
In CloudStack 4.17 a brief overview of the status of various services can be retrieved. This includes information on the Management Server(s),…
Support for VMs Having Multiple SSH Key l CloudStack Feature First Look
As SSH is the most widely used way to access remote machines, CloudStack provides users with the ability to specify an SSH Key to be added to the list…
CloudStack European User Group 2022 Virtual Event Roundup
Taking place on April 7th, 2022, The CloudStack European User Group was a virtual get together for the European CloudStack Community, hosting 260+…
Telia Utilises CloudStack and ShapeBlue to Maintain a Market-leading Position in the Baltics
The rate of change in the TELCO industry has accelerated over the last few years as customers demand more innovation and faster time-to-market to support…
CloudStack Integrations: LINBIT – Open-source SDS Solution
Apache CloudStack is the leading open-source cloud orchestration platform used by many of the world’s largest public and private clouds. It is a…
Automating Infrastructure with CloudStack and Terraform
Apache CloudStack is one of the most commonly used IaaS platforms, orchestrating infrastructure and maximizing the benefits of cloud computing. Many…
CloudStack vs. OpenStack Comparison – What you need to know before choosing a cloud management system
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is recognized as facilitating speed-to-market and for its ability to drive business agility. When a company demands…
Apache CloudStack 4.16.1.0 Release – Deep Dive
Apache CloudStack 4.16.1.0 is the latest maintenance release as part of the LTS 4.16.x releases. It contains more than 150 fixes and improvements since…
Improvements to VM and Volume Migration | CloudStack Feature First Look
Migration of resources such as virtual machines and volumes is essential functionality for cloud operators, enabling them to load balance or perform…
Granular Control of Dynamic Scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM
Currently, CloudStack allows admins to configure the dynamic scaling of CPU and RAM for the VMs using a global or zone level setting “enable.dynamic.scale.vm”…
CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 Roundup – Virtual, November 2021
Taking place over 5 days (November 8 – 12), the CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 was the first virtual annual get-together of the Apache…
SystemVM template – Upgrade Improvements
When upgrading Apache CloudStack (ACS) to a newer version one must manually register new SystemVM templates before upgrading the packages. Failing…
What’s new in CloudStack 4.16
Apache CloudStack 4.16 is the latest release of the cloud management platform from the Apache Software Foundation and is a result of months of work…
Adding Comments to CloudStack Objects | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack administrators are currently able to add annotations/comments on hosts, domains or virtual machines. This is useful as administrators may…
GSoC 2021 and Apache CloudStack: The Results
With 16,000+ participants from 111 countries and 715 open-source organizations participating, Google Summer of Code is one of the most popular programs…
CloudStack Stability and Reliability Enables KDDI to Deliver 99.999% Uptime to Their Enterprise Customers
Whilst agility and speed of service are key factors in choosing a cloud management platform, it is becoming apparent that the reliability of that platform…
Support for Custom Resource Icons in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature First Look
A CloudStack resource is typically identified by its name or description, and when creating and managing resources, zones are often named by their…
Import Virtual Machines in CloudStack
Since CloudStack 4.14 it has been possible to import virtual machines (VMs) from a vSphere cluster directly into CloudStack, which introduced the concept…
Case Study: IndiQus and ShapeBlue Accelerating Cloud Growth in Emerging Markets
Data localisation is creating multi-million-dollar revenue opportunities for regional ISPs, data centers and telcos. Providing the monetisation and cloud…
The C-level Perspective on Running Open-Source Cloud with Ceph and CloudStack
The cloud and hosting market has experienced a complete transformation during the last decade. While previously there was a range of mid-sized local…
Rocky Linux and openSUSE Support in CloudStack
In December 2020, Red Hat announced major changes to the roadmap of its CentOS distribution, including the early end of life of CentOS 8 in December…
Enable Bulk Actions via the CloudStack UI
Want to start or stop a VM (Virtual Machine), or delete an offering in CloudStack? No big deal. However – what if you need to delete 20 offerings,…
Pricing Your IaaS Offering the Right Way
There is currently enormous market demand for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), with organisations looking for the right solution to host their applications…
vSphere Datastore Cluster State Synchronisation
Apache CloudStack 4.15 introduced several new capabilities for vSphere, including support for datastore clusters. Following production use of the new…
Interview: The story of XCP-ng and its CloudStack Integration
XCP-ng is a high-performance enterprise-level virtualization platform backed up by an active open-source community. Based initially on XenServer it's the…
How to Choose a Cloud Management Platform
As more and more companies build internal private clouds or enter the service provider market with public clouds, the more they will need the right set…
Storage Plugin for Dell EMC PowerFlex | CloudStack Feature First Look
For primary storage, CloudStack supports many managed storage solutions via storage plugins, such as SolidFire, Ceph, Datera, CloudByte and Nexenta.…
Virtual CloudStack European User Group (vCSEUG) – May 27, 2021
Thursday, May 27 was the first-ever vCSEUG, and the first time the community had met since February 2020 (the last pre-COVID meetup in Berlin). It was…
Google Summer of Code – Meet the Mentors
16,000+ students, 111 countries, 16 years and 715 open-source organizations – this is Google Summer of Code! ShapeBlue and the CloudStack Community are…
Customising the CloudStack UI
A lot of work has gone into the CloudStack UI recently, and it is now a modern, role-based UI that not only gives a fresh look to CloudStack but also makes…
XCP-ng 8.2 LTS Support Added to CloudStack
The latest version of XCP-ng - the opensource hypervisor based on XenServer - XCP-ng 8.2 was released in November 2020, and is the first long term support…
Apache CloudStack on RaspberryPi4 with KVM
IoTs have gained interest over recent times. In this article, Rohit Yadav, Principal Engineer at ShapeBlue, explores and shares his personal experience…
L2 Persistent Networks and enhancement of Isolated Persistent Networks | CloudStack Feature First Look
When a network is created in CloudStack, it is by default not provisioned until the first VM is deployed on that network, at which point a a VLAN ID is…
VMware Migration Improvements | CloudStack Feature First Look
Migration of virtual machines between physical hosts or clusters is essential for cloud operators, allowing them to perform maintenance with little or…
Specify VR IP in Shared Networks | CloudStack Feature First Look
If you are a system engineer managing shared networks and deploying virtual machines with CloudStack, you should be aware that currently there is no…
First Few Months at ShapeBlue l Meet The Team
Great team!
Hey there, this is Suresh Kumar Anaparti, from Hyderabad, India. I was born and brought up in the “City of Destiny” (Visakhapatnam)…
Hey there, this is Suresh Kumar Anaparti, from Hyderabad, India. I was born and brought up in the “City of Destiny” (Visakhapatnam)…
Debian replaces CoreOS as CKS template | CloudStack Feature First Look
The CloudStack Kubernetes Services (CKS) uses CoreOS templates to deploy Kubernetes clusters. However, as CoreOS reached EOL on May 26th, 2020 we needed…
CloudStack Kubernetes Service – Cluster Auto-scaling | CloudStack Feature First Look
Since the addition of CloudStack Kubernetes Service, users can deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters in CloudStack. This not only makes CloudStack…
vSphere Advanced Capabilities in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
CloudStack vSphere integration has not kept up with the evolution of vSphere itself, and several functions can be performed natively by vSphere…
CloudStack vSphere integration has not kept up with the evolution of vSphere itself, and several functions can be performed natively by vSphere…
Support Virtual Appliance OVA Templates in VMware | CloudStack Deep Dive
Vendors of virtual appliances (vApp) for VMware often produce ‘templates’ of their appliances in an OVA format. An OVA file will contain disc images,…
Role Based Users in Projects | CloudStack Feature First Look
Projects have proven to be a boon in organizing and grouping accounts and resources together, giving users in the same domain the ability to collaborate…
Dynamic Roles Utility | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack has more than 600 APIs which can be allowed / disallowed in different combinations to create dynamic roles for the users. The aim of this feature…
ShapeBlue enables the University of Sao Paulo to deliver federated cloud services | Case Studies
The University of São Paulo (USP) is Latin America’s largest university and Brazil’s most prestigious academic institution. It produces more doctorate…
Back in the community l Meet The Team
Hello all, I’m Harikrishna, and I’m based in Hyderabad, India. I joined ShapeBlue few months ago and I’m very happy to be part of this amazing team.
I…
I…
Choose Open-Source l Meet The Team
Hi, my name is Vladimir Petrov and I am a Software Test Engineer at ShapeBlue. I started 10 months ago and have now been here long enough to share my ‘first…
Share ISO from UI | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack supports sharing templates and ISOs between accounts and projects through the API ‘updateTemplatePermissions’ and sharing templates through…
CentOS 8 Support | | CloudStack Feature First Look
As of 2021, CentOS 7 will be receiving maintenance updates only, and is end of life in 2024. Considering this, it is important that CloudStack supports…
Support for XCP-ng 8.x | CloudStack Feature First Look
XCP-ng (an open-source hypervisor based on XenServer) has been supported in CloudStack for some time, and support for XCP-ng 8.x will be available from…
Secondary Storage Management | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
In CloudStack, secondary storage pools (image stores) house resources such as volumes, snapshots and templates. Over time these storage pools may have…
Boot into Hardware Setup | CloudStack Feature First Look
Users and administrators sometimes need to change the boot order of a virtual machine (VM) so that they can (for example) force a VM to boot from an ISO.…
Human readable byte sizes | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack puts together many technologies to make managing large datacentres and its resources easy and efficient, but with many complex systems, it is…
noVNC Console Integration | CloudStack Feature First Look
There are a plethora of ways to connect to a remote system, from command-line based protocols like SSH, to graphical user interfaces such as RDP. One of…
Send hypervisor host name via metadata | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows admins to expose the hypervisor host name to a User VM instance either through Config Drive or Virtual Router, based on the user data…
CloudStack Kubernetes Service
For a while, the CloudStack community has been working on adding support for containers. ShapeBlue successfully implemented the CloudStack Container Service…
Enable unmanaging of guest instances | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows CloudStack administrators to unmanage guest virtual machines (VMs) from their CloudStack infrastructure. Once unmanaged, CloudStack…
Hands-on l Meet The Team
Why Alex Mattioli, former Director of Architecture for a global telecoms giant, chose to join ShapeBlue
Hello, I’m Alexandre Mattioli - a Cloud Architect…
Hello, I’m Alexandre Mattioli - a Cloud Architect…
KVM Rolling Maintenance | CloudStack Feature First Look
In a typical scenario prior to this feature, the administrator had to automate the process of setting hosts in maintenance before upgrading, usually using…
Enable PVLAN support on L2 networks | CloudStack Feature First Look
Private VLANs have always been partially supported in CloudStack (for shared networks only), in versions prior to 4.14. Administrators could set up Isolated…
Direct Download agnostic of the storage provider | CloudStack Feature First Look
Introduction
In a previous post, ShapeBlue’s Boris Stoyanov introduced a feature for KVM which allows administrators to register templates and ISOs…
In a previous post, ShapeBlue’s Boris Stoyanov introduced a feature for KVM which allows administrators to register templates and ISOs…
Enable sending of arbitrary configuration data to VMs | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows the sending of arbitrary additional VM configurations to user VMs on CloudStack and is supported by KVM, XenServer and VMware hypervisors.
The…
The…
Hosts stuck in PrepareForMaintenance state | CloudStack Feature First Look
The process of setting a host into maintenance in CloudStack requires an administrator to ask for ‘prepare for maintenance’, either via API or through…
VR Health Checks | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature introduces an easy and integrated way to check the health of virtual routers (VRs) within CloudStack. With the help of these checks, administrators…
Straight into the code l Meet The Team
Hi - David Jumani here, maybe just a typical software engineer so far…
I studied Computer Science and Engineering, and after graduation I worked at…
I studied Computer Science and Engineering, and after graduation I worked at…
Improvements for Template Direct Download | CloudStack Feature First Look
For some time now, CloudStack has supported the direct download of user templates for the KVM hypervisor. This basically allows user to register a template…
VM Ingestion | CloudStack Feature First Look
Apache CloudStack has proved itself to be a great cloud orchestrator and is probably one of the best open-source platforms available for deployment of…
A place for an individual l Meet The Team
Hey there, my name is Pearl d’Silva, and I have recently joined ShapeBlue as a Software Engineer. I’d like to share my ‘two-cents’ and tell you…
CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) roundup – Berlin, February 27, 2020
Our late winter (almost spring) meetup saw us back in Berlin, hosted by iTelligence and Heinlein Support. The last CloudStack user group held here was…
OIS and ShapeBlue Announce Apache® CloudStack® v4.11 To Power CloudSchool Platform | Case Studies
Enables rapid development of cost-effective, scalable Cloud-based educational solutions
Education IT specialist Oakford Internet Services (OIS) announced…
Education IT specialist Oakford Internet Services (OIS) announced…
Telia Latvia use Apache CloudStack to accelerate move to Next Generation Telco
Telia Latvia was founded in 1992 as a telecommunications company with a focus on data communications and internet services. In 2009 they established one…
Project Primate – a new UI for Apache CloudStack
There is currently significant effort going on in the Apache CloudStack community to develop a new, modern, UI (user interface) for CloudStack: Project…
SolidFire with CloudStack
Aside from traditional storage solutions, CloudStack has supported managed storage for some time. In this article, we will touch on SolidFire support in…
CloudStack & Ceph day, Thursday, October 24 2019 – roundup
On Thursday, October 24 2019 the CloudStack community joined up with the Ceph community for a combined event in London, and it was another super day! The…
Machine Learning and Apache CloudStack | Case Studies
Introduction
In this blog we discuss applications of machine learning (ML) in datacenters and how that might integrate with Apache CloudStack (ACS). We…
In this blog we discuss applications of machine learning (ML) in datacenters and how that might integrate with Apache CloudStack (ACS). We…
CloudStack Collaboration Conference, back in Las Vegas, September 9-11, 2019
It’s taken me a couple of weeks to write this blog, and not because it took me that long to recover from a week in Las Vegas! The CloudStack Collaboration…
Openvswitch with DPDK support on CloudStack – Part 2 | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction
In my previous post, I described the new ‘Open vSwitch with DPDK support’ on CloudStack for KVM hosts. There, I focused on describing…
In my previous post, I described the new ‘Open vSwitch with DPDK support’ on CloudStack for KVM hosts. There, I focused on describing…
Ceph and CloudStack – Part 3
Introduction
In the previous two parts of this article series, we have covered the complete Ceph installation process and implemented Ceph as an additional…
In the previous two parts of this article series, we have covered the complete Ceph installation process and implemented Ceph as an additional…
