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| title: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v4.16 |
| date: '2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: cloudstack |
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| <b>The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v4.16</b>
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| "In the past years, CloudStack has been proving a mature and
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| easy-to-use platform. The released 4.16.0.0 LTS adds new features,
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| enhancements, and bug fixes that will help tech-savy companies stay up
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| to date." said Gabriel Brascher, Vice President of Apache CloudStack.
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| "I'm pleased to see another innovative release of Apache CloudStack
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| from the community. CloudStack continues to evolve both in terms of
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| functionality, integrations and also ease of management and stability.
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| It is great to see new integrations to major storage vendors and so
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| many other features developed by community members from a broad range
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| of organisations, reflecting CloudStack's increasing adoption across
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| both service provider and enterprise organisations.”, said Giles
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| Sirett, Chairman, CloudStack European User Group and Apache CloudStack
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| PMC Member.
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| Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 is a 4.16 LTS release with 22 major new
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| features, and 244 enhancements and fixes since 4.15. Some of the
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| highlights include:
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| Additional OS Support for Management Servers and hypervisor hosts:
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| - Support for OpenSuse
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| - Support for Rocky Linux
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| New vendor integrations to allow CloudStack to leverage advanced
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| storage capabilities:
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| - Dell EMC PowerFlex storage plugin integration
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| - LINSTOR storage plugin integration
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| UI Improvements:
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| - Structured comments on objects in the UI
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| - Custom Resource Icons to allow visual representation of most object types
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| - The ability to perform bulk actions through the UI
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| Enhancements to CloudStack Kubernetes Service:
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| - Support for Kubernetes Autoscaling through the CloudStack Kubernetes provider
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| - Kubernetes Clusters now based on System VM, giving simplified
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| ongoing management
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| Improved tools & management:
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| - Granular control of dynamic scaling of VM’s CPU/RAM
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| - Import and export of VMware virtual machines through the UI
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| - CloudStack-setup-databases script improvement to give more stable upgrades
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| - L2 Networks Persistent modern
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| - mac learning mode added to network offerings
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| - HA improvements allow a host to be marked as Degraded
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| - New API endpoint to update pod management network IP range
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| - New API endpoint to update VLAN IP range
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| # Documentation
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| The full list of new features can be found in the project release
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| notes at https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html
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| The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from
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| previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at:
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| https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.16.0.0/upgrading/index.html
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| The official installation, administration and API documentation for
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| each of the releases are available on our documentation page:
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| https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/
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| # Downloads:
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| The official source code for the 4.16.0.0 release can be downloaded
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| from our downloads page: https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html
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| In addition to the official source code release, individual
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| contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the
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| Apache CloudStack download page, and can be found at:
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| https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/
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| https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/
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| https://download.cloudstack.org/centos/8/
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| https://download.cloudstack.org/suse/15
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| https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/
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| Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services,
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| including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant
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| leaders. Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source
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| Cloud Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of
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| service provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational
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| corporations. A list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at
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| https://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html |
