In total there 42 items that must be reviewed during the first quarterly call. Following is a schedule on how we are setting the time aside for each company based on number of things they have listed, on average - each item gets 1.5 minutes.
The presenter must stop at the time specified in table below for next speaker to proceed.
Please note - this is a very high level talk and we will not be going into finer details of how it will be implemented - due to time constraint.
Development Discussions
9:03 AM PST - 9:05 AM PST
General information on how this call will be moderated
Moderator will give the presenter an option to decide how he wants to manage the time allotted for their projects
If presenter is finished before time allotted - he can choose to hold brief Q&A
Moderator will take meeting notes and update this page
Moderator will ask the audience if they seen any concerns - if they do, their name will be noted and we will ask for presenter to take this discussion on dev list
9:06 AM PST - 9:26AM PST
ShapeBlue - 14 items
9:27 AM PST - 9:40 AM PST
Accelerite - 8 items
9:41 AM PST - 9:50 AM PST
Nuage - 6 items
9:51 AM PST - 9:55 AM PST
ENA - 2 items
9:56 AM PST - 10:00 AM PST
CloudOps - 2 items
Community Discussions
10:01 AM PST - 10:10 AM PST
Accelerite - 5 Items
10:11 AM PST - 10:20 AM PST
ShapeBlue - 5 Items
10:21 AM PST - 10:30+ AM PST
Next Steps
Development Efforts:
Listed by number of items presenters need to discuss, sorted from highest to lower..
Company: ShapeBlue
Feature Name Securing Agent Comms (CA Framework)
Summary The aim of this feature is to provide pluggable CA (certificate authority) management in CloudStack that can fetch/provision certificates to (new) host(s) and systemvms. As a default CA plugin, a root CA plugin will be implement where CloudStack becomes a self-signed Root Certificate Authority. Developers will have option to implement further integration with their TLS/SSL cert providers such as letsencrypt and other vendors.
Summary Aim is to get understandable, actionable errors out of CloudStack, ie not 'insufficient capacity'. BitWork Software have implemented some context based interpretation in their UI. We hope to work with them and others to implement a framework in side CloudStack)
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev D Hoogland
Release Target TBC
Feature Name Enable Dedication of Public IP range to CPVM/SSVM
Summary By dedicating a small public IP range to only CPVM and SSVM, firewall rules can be used to control inbound access to this smaller range without affecting public traffic destined for the VRs. Such security is a general best practice, but also highly desireable in PCI DSS compliant environments
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev TBC
Release Target Q4 2017
Feature Name Multi-disk OVA import + Additional OVA metadata
Summary Many users add data disks to their instances, migration of these between platforms (ie onboarding) is greatly simplified by being able to import mu
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev N Vasquez
Release Target Q4 2017
Feature Name Fix and Update template checksum validation
Summary the obsoletion of the md5 checksum algorithm requires that CloudStack checks downloaded templates by means of an alternative algorithm to the current one. The algorithm type should be configurable and include both the obfuscated MD5 and, as an example SHA256.
Summary Required for any kind of service chaining, currently users have to resort to creating networks with IP allocations that they don't want.
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev TBC
Release Target Q4 2017
Feature Name New UI Framework
Summary Aim is to work with BitWorks and their existing UI to create a flexible framework upon which a next generation UI
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev TBC
Release Target Q4 2017
Feature Name System VM diagnostics API
Summary Enable administrators to perform basic tasks such as ping (over default and specific interfaces) tracert, retrieve logs and configuration files. This will greatly simplify an admin's job by largely removing the need to log into System VMs. Also enable admin to increase/decrease logging verbosity on specific system VMs via API.
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev TBC
Release Target Q1 2018
Feature Name Ability to request a range of public IPs (v4 and v6)
Summary Required for IPv6 routing in CloudStack, and also for users who prefer to deal with a block of IPs rather than individual IPs as this greatly simplifies ACLs.
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev TBC
Release Target Q4 2017
Feature Name CloudStack Metrics Exporter for Prometheus
Summary Several organizations use Prometheus based metrics/monitoring, the aim is to develop a CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus server which can export metrics such as CPU, memory, cores, VMs, volumes, IPs.
Summary CloudStack installation has huge dependency on distro provided tomcat, by moving to embedded jetty (like we do use jetty for development) we can sync how developers develop/test mgmt servers and users use it. In addition, it will be easier to publish pkgs without depending on distro provided dependencies.
Summary Required update, Debian7 is EOL, moving to Debian9 will give; newer kernel, newer packages, Smaller disk footprint (faster deployment and more space efficient) and Systemd should give quicker boot time
Feature Name Enable dedication of public IPs to system VMs (CPVM/SSVM)
Summary Allow a public IP range to be dedicated to CPVM/SSVM, allowing external firewall control of ports which are allowed to connect to CPVM/SSVM from "outside" CloudStack.
FS_Jira TBC
Lead Dev N Vasquez
Release Target Q4 2017
Company: Accelerite
Feature Name Affinity Group at Domain Level
Summary Currently the affinity groups are scoped at account level. The enhancement is to scope it at domain level or project level
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Meeting notes:
Feature Name Bulk Provisioning of VM from UI
Summary Ability to provision VMs in bulk from UI
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Feature Name Strongswan: Multiple subnets in IKEv1
Summary We lost the ability to specify multiple subnets for S2S VPN using Ikev1 after we moved to Stongswan.Would like to enhance this
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Feature Name Hyper-V Snapshots
Summary Ability to create snapshots in Hyper-V setups.
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Feature Name CPU cores per socket
Summary Ability to update CPU cores per socket for a VM.
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Feature Name Cinder Integration
Summary Integrate with Cinder block storage
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Feature Name OVA Import Robustness
Summary Currently there are many issues with OVA import and usage. Will be enhancing to fix all the issues.
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Feature Name Hyper-V Clustering
Summary Support Hyper-V Clustering.
Link to FS and/or JIRA None
Lead Developer
Release target
Company: Nuage Networks
Feature Name Network migration support
Summary Generic network and VPC migration support to a new Physical network (and new network/vpc offering), tested for Native to Nuage networks deployments and v.v.
Summary We want to add baremetal functionality in Cloudstack for advanced networks using MaaS which offers a wide varity of options for provisioning baremetal servers.
Short Summary CloudStack installation has huge dependency on distro provided tomcat, by moving to embedded jetty (like we do use jetty for development) we can sync how developers develop/test mgmt servers and users use it. In addition, it will be easier to publish pkgs without depending on distro provided dependencies.
Lead(s) R Yadav/MA Brothier
Target Date
Subject Debian9 systemvmtemplate
Short Summary Required update, Debian7 is EOL, moving to Debian9 will give; newer kernel, newer packages, Smaller disk footprint (faster deployment and more space efficient) and Systemd should give quicker boot time
Lead(s) R Yadav/W Hollander
Target Date
Subject 4.9.3.0
Short Summary Backport of bug fixes to 4.9 branch and release 4.9.3.0.
Lead(s) R Yadav
Target Date
Subject Winston
Short Summary WIP - PoC of Phase 1 (consolidated data storage) in ShapeBlue Lab - Elasticsearch instance receiving test run data from Trillian & Blue Orangutan. Once it has a decent amount I'll come to community for ideas and feedback (and help). By the time of the conf call I will have updated: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Project+Winston+-+Consolidated+Test+Data
Lead(s) P Angus
Target Date
Subject Marvin Test Categories
Short Summary Enable quicker, targeted test runs in Marvin, by allowing user to specify Which element(s) are touched ie. Networking
Lead(s) B Stoyanov
Target Date
Company: Accelerite
Subject Release Management
Short summary Accelerite has been doing Release management for many releases for Cloudstack. Most recently 4.10. We will continue these efforts
Lead(s) Rajani
Target date
Subject PR Process
Short summary Current PR process takes quite a long for a PR to get merged. Couple of examples (1) there are comments on the PR that were addressed by the author but no one may respond (2) there are comments from reviewers and the author does not respond. The whole process can take potentially a longtime if either the author or the reviewers take time to respond. Can we think about implementing some kind of validating on the Prs.. Bottomline is how can we improve ?
Lead(s) TBD
Target date
Subject Regression Tests
Short Summary There are a number of tests in the integration folder which are not run. Need to group these together and start running them.
Lead(s) Raja/Looking for support
Target Date TBD
Subject Release Qualification
Short Summary RC to Readiness takes quite a bit of time. Can we discuss on ways to improve this.
Lead(s) Raja/Looking for support
Target Date TBD
Subject Performance Testing
Short Summary Add Performance tests. Need hardware where we can run these tests on?