CloudStack CA Framework | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction The CloudStack management server listens by default on port 8250 for agents, and this is secured by one-way SSL authentication using the management server’s self-generated server certificates. While this encrypts the connection, it does not authenticate and validate the connecting agent (client). Upcoming features such as support for container/application cluster services require certificate management, and the emerging […]
Host-HA for KVM Hosts in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Intro What is HA? “High availability is a characteristic of a system, which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. ” — Wikipedia HA in CloudStack is currently supported for VMs only. In order to have it enabled, the service offering of the VM should […]
Dynamic Roles in CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
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 […]
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 […]
CloudStack 4.7 Metrics View | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
CloudStack 4.7 (which is due in the coming weeks) will introduce a new metrics view feature throughout the familiar CloudStack interface. We built this functionality to help system architects and admins comprehend resource utilisation and drill into the data to find performance hotspots. Whilst metrics have always been available via the CloudStack API a lot of information hasn’t been […]
XenServer Native HA with CloudStack | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Update – Following community feedback, Timeout Settings have now been added to the script Update – The HA settings in this post also apply to XenServer 6.5.0 onwards Warning: If you have applied Hotfix XS62ESP1004 to your XenServer 6.2 infrastructure and have not enabled Pool HA, in the event of your Pool Master going down, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
