Each week, we'll summarize the most important issues and developments in the Apache CloudStack (incubating) community. This week, the vote on accepting Marvin tests, Apache CloudStack bylaws, issues with features for 4.1.0, and upcoming events.

Major Discussions and Issues

• Project Bylaws were discussed previously and after a substantial discussion on cloudstack-dev have passed. The bylaws are intended to go into effect once Apache CloudStack graduates from the Apache Incubator. (Note that a vote on graduation is not currently pending.)
• Discussion about whether CloudStack should make a concerted effort to get into Linux distros.
• There are some concerns about where development is happening for major features being targeted for CloudStack 4.1.0. A number of features have been developed outside of the community, and may need to go through IP clearance to be accepted into master for 4.1.0.
• Discussion on how CloudMonkey should be released, whether it makes sense to release CloudMonkey out-of-band via pypi or stick with major releases.
• Reminder to developers to update status, risk, and issues in Jira items.
• Vote to accept Marvin automated tests from Citrix started on January 9th the vote passed and now will begin going through IP clearance.
• Minutes from QA Scrum on 8 January 2013.
• Minutes from CloudStack IRC Meeting 9 January 2013 and the full log.

Upcoming Events

CloudStack will be represented at a number of events in the next few weeks:

• OSSI DHS Industry Day David Nalley is on a panel and will talk about Apache CloudStack at the OSSI Industry Day in Linthicum, Maryland on Monday, 14 January 2013.
• DC Riak Users Group David Nalley is speaking about CloudStack at the DC Riak Users Group in Washington DC on Wednesday, 16 January 2013.
• PuppetCamp Silicon Valley: David Nalley is speaking about CloudStack at PuppetCamp Silicon Valley on Friday, 18 January 2013.
• PuppetCamp Sydney: Joe Brockmeier is speaking about Apache CloudStack at PuppetCamp Sydney on Thursday, 24 January 2013.
• Linux.conf.au: Joe Brockmeier is speaking about Apache CloudStack during the Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf on Monday (28 January, 2013).
• FOSDEM: Sebastien Goasguen is speaking about Apache CloudStack features and tools during the cloud DevRoom at FOSDEM on Sunday (3 February, 2013).
• Build a Cloud Day (BACD): Full day workshop on CloudStack co-located with Puppet Camp in Ghent, Belgium (1 February, 2013).
• UK/European User Group Meet-up : Shapeblue is organizing a meet-up. (January 16th, 2013)

Jira

In the last 30 days (as of 11 January, 2013) 345 issues have been created in Jira, and 85 have been resolved.

• Unassigned Issues: 299 as of 11 January, 2013. Please see if any of the issues are something you can help with.
• There are 84 open issues affecting 4.1.0.
• 75 issues are of blocker, critical, or major status.

New Committers and PPMC Members

• Sebastien Goasguen and Kelcey Damage were welcomed as new committers.

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the 4.0.0-incubating release of the CloudStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud orchestration platform. This is the first release from within the Apache Incubator, the entry path into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

Apache CloudStack is an integrated software platform that allows users to build a feature-rich IaaS. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for managing the compute, networking, accounting, and storage for private, hybrid, or public clouds. The project entered the Apache Incubator in April 2012.

The 4.0.0-incubating release represents the culmination of more than six months work by the CloudStack community. The release includes more than a dozen new features, many bugfixes, security fixes, and a fully audited codebase that complies with ASF guidelines.

New Features:​

• Inter-VLAN Routing (VPC)
• Site-to-Site VPN
• Local Storage Support for Data Volumes
• Virtual Resource Tagging
• Secure Console Access on XenServer
• Added the ability to create a VM without immediately starting it (via API)
• Upload an Existing Volume to a Virtual Machine
• Dedicated High-Availability Hosts
• Support for Amazon Web Services API (formerly a separate package)
• AWS API Extensions to include Tagging
• Support for Nicira NVP (L2)
• Ceph RBD Support for KVM
• Support for Caringo as Secondary Storage
• KVM Hypervisor support upgraded to work with Ubuntu 12.04 and RHEL 6.3

Downloads​

The official source code release can be downloaded from:

http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/downloads.html

In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download page.

CloudStack Collaboration Conference​

The CloudStack project will have its first collaboration conference in Las Vegas, from November 30th through December 2nd at The Venetian. The conference will provide an opportunity for the community to learn more about CloudStack, share best practices for deploying CloudStack, and discuss ideas for upcoming releases.

Learn more about the CloudStack Collaboration Conference at:

http://collab12.cloudstack.org/

Incubating​

Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.

The CloudStack Collaboration Conference schedule is now up! You can find it at:

http://collab12.cloudstack.org/schedule/

A big thank you to everyone who's submitted talks, and to David Nalley, Chip Childers, and John Kinsella for helping wade through the submissions. We were initially concerned about the quantity of submissions given the short run-up to the conference - but we were blown away by the quality *and* quantity of the submissions.

We'll be announcing keynotes shortly, and the evening events. A lot of really good stuff coming for the conference - I hope to see many of you there, you really don't want to miss it!