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 […]
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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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