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 is deployed, the operations team must organize maintenance windows to allow the redeployment of every customer’s VR. Depending on the number of existing networks, planning and execution […]
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, most providers will need to switch to IPv6, which not only provides a much bigger address space but also offers many other advantages over IPv4, such as improved security, […]
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 and Network specifications to be consumed by users when creating their resources. Previously, when users deployed a new Instance, the Root Volume definition was included in the Compute Offering, including disk size, IOPS and storage […]
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 Apache CloudStack (affected versions) environments that have the SAML plugin enabled. Summary Apache CloudStack enables authentication through SAML 2.0 by providing a SAML 2.0 Service Provider Plugin. This plugin is disabled by […]
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 tasks which may otherwise require admin intervention at regular intervals. Though quite useful, events in CloudStack had a major inconsistency regarding information of the resource (ie. Instances, Templates, Volumes, Networks, Accounts, etc.). To identify […]
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 in theory – as of CloudStack 4.16 – all other EL8 variants including e.g. Alma Linux 8) – for both management servers and hypervisors. Similarly, support for Ubuntu 20.04 was added […]
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. Apache CloudStack 4.17 is the latest release of the cloud management platform from the Apache Software Foundation and is a result of months of work from the development community. Apache CloudStack 4.17 […]
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), the Database and the Usage server. This is a quick overview for operators. It does not replace a full-fletched monitoring system. Use Case It is now possible, within the Apache CloudStack, to […]
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 of authorized keys of a virtual machine either during or post-deployment. Users can either generate these SSH Keys via the CloudStack UI or register existing public […]
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 multi-hypervisor, multi-tenant, high-availability Infrastructure as a Service cloud management platform. CloudStack is a virtualization platform that provides a cloud orchestration layer, giving automation of the creation, provisioning and configuration of IaaS components […]
