Apache CloudStack

Isaac Chiang

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Agenda

• CloudStack Community

• Build your own development environment

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CloudStack Community

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• 2009: Cloud.com, 100% proprietary

• 2010: Cloud.com, open core, GPL v3

• 2011: Citrix Systems, 100% open, GPL v3

• 2012: ASF, 100% open, Apache License 2

CloudStack History

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The Apache Way

• Not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

• Encouraging collaborative development.

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Home Page

• http://cloudstack.apache.org

• Document / WIKI site

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CloudStack University

• https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+University

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JIRA• Issue tracker

• Bugs

• Improvement

• Good place for starting your contribution

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Review Board

• For committers reviewing the patch

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• Top-level project(TLP) of Apache

• Chip Childers is the current Vice President of Apache CloudStack and chair of the PMC.

• CloudStack 4.0.2 release

• CloudStack 4.1 release

Current Status

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CloudStack 4.1 Release Note

• An API discovery service that allows an end point to list its supported APIs and their details.

• Added an Events Framework to CloudStack to provide an "event bus" with publish, subscribe, and unsubscribe semantics. Includes a RabbitMQ plugin that can interact with AMQP servers. Introduces the notion of a state change event.

• Implement L3 router functionality in the Nicira NVP plugin, and including support for KVM (previously Xen-only).

• API request throttling to prevent attacks via frequent API requests.

• AWS-style regions

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CloudStack 4.1 Release Note

• Egress firewall rules for guest networks.

• Resizing root and data volumes.

• Reset SSH key to access VMs.

• Support for EC2 Query API.

• Autoscaling support in conjunction with load balancing devices such asNetScaler.

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Build your own development environment

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DevCloud Introduction

• DevCloud is a virtual appliance shipped as an OVA image which runs on VirtualBox

• DevCloud I by Edison Su

• CloudStack 4.0 and before

• DevCloud II by Rohit Yadav

• CloudStack 4.1/4.2

• DevCloud-KVM/DevCloud-KVM

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Why DevCloud

• To solve the problem of infrastructure availability for development and testing

• Don't need to install hypervisor, primary/secondary storage, e.t.c.

• Platform-independent Sandbox

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Why DevCloud

• To solve the problem of infrastructure availability for development and testing

• Don't need to install hypervisor, primary/secondary storage, e.t.c.

• Platform-independent Sandbox

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Dom0 / DomU

• Host = Domain0 = Dom0

• Guest = DomainU = DomU

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DevCloud Architecture

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DevCloud Comparison

DevCloud1 DevCloud2

SupportCloudStackVersion

Base OS

Networking

CloudStack 4.0 and Before

CloudStack 4.1+

Ubuntu12.04 Debian Wheezy 7.0

NAT Host-only network

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Usage Scenarios

DevCloudXen

Dom0

DomU...

ManagementServer

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Usage Scenarios

DevCloud

Xen

Dom0 DomU..

OS

ManagementServer

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Step by Step• Install Oracle Virtualbox

• Download & Import DevCloud2

• http://rohityadav.in/logs/devcloud/

• Configure the network

• Clone CloudStack source code

• Compile and run!

• mvn clean install -P systemvm,developer

• mvn -pl developer,tools/devcloud -Ddeploydb -P developer

• export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=500m -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n"

• mvn -pl client jetty:run

• Deploy a user vm

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References

• Apache Software Foundation

• http://www.apache.org/

• CloudStack Project

• http://cloudstack.apache.org/

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2013 CloudStackCollaboration Conference

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Where Can You Find Us

• http://www.cloudstack-tw.org/

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The EndQ&A

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