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| <h2><a href="/blog/2014/01/27/libcloud-0-14-and-the-new-exoscale-driver.html">Libcloud 0.14 and the new Exoscale driver</a></h2> |
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| <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus on Jan 27, 2014</span> |
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| <p>Libcloud 0.14 which has been <a href="/blog/2014/01/22/libcloud-0-14-0-released.html">released recently</a> includes many new features |
| and improvements. One of those new features is also a driver for the |
| <a href="https://www.exoscale.ch/open-cloud/compute/">Exoscale public cloud</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Exoscale is a public cloud service provider based in Switzerland. Their cloud |
| is powered by an open-source cloud computing platform <a href="https://cloudstack.apache.org/">Apache CloudStack</a>. |
| As such, the new Exoscale driver heavily relies on the existing |
| <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/cloudstack.html">CloudStack driver</a>.</p> |
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| <p>If you want to learn more about how to get started with the new Exoscale |
| driver, you should read <a href="https://www.exoscale.ch/syslog/2014/01/27/licloud-guest-post/">Libcloud 0.14 and Exoscale</a> blog post which has |
| been written by one of our developers and posted on the Exoscale blog.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="/blog/2014/01/23/welcome-to-the-new-website.html">Welcome to the new website</a></h2> |
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| <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus on Jan 23, 2014</span> |
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| <div class="post-content"> |
| <p>Today we are pleased to announce a new, improved and more user friendly version |
| of our website.</p> |
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| <h3 id="background-and-history">Background and History</h3> |
| |
| <p>Original website was developed and published back in 2009 when the project was |
| first announced.</p> |
| |
| <p>A lot has changed since 2009 and during that time the web has been evolving at |
| a rapid pace. Now we have terms such as <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/">responsive web design</a>, great |
| front-end frameworks for building responsive websites such as <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/">Bootstrap</a> |
| and <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/">Zurb</a> and many other new things which didn’t exist or weren’t widely |
| used back when we first launched.</p> |
| |
| <p>During this time we focused most of our efforts on improving the code and |
| making the library better. This meant the website didn’t receive a lot of |
| needed love and attention so design-wise, it was mostly stuck in the 2009 era.</p> |
| |
| <p>Over the years it has become apparent that presentation and documentation is |
| also equally or even more important then the code itself, so we have decided |
| to fix some of the “mistakes” we have made in the past.</p> |
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| <p>A couple of months back we launched a <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">new documentation</a> and today, we are |
| happy to present you a new and much improved website which was built with |
| modern tools and principles in mind.</p> |
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| <h3 id="improvements-and-new-features">Improvements and New Features</h3> |
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| <div class="imginline"> |
| <p><img src="/images/posts/tbd/preview.png" class="img-responsive inline" /></p> |
| <p class="img-caption">Responsive design makes a site pleasure to use on a |
| variety of devices and screen sizes. Image by placeit.net.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p>New website includes many improvements and new features. Some of the more |
| important ones are listed bellow.</p> |
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| <h4 id="more-modern-and-user-friendly-design">More modern and user-friendly design</h4> |
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| <p>New website now features a more modern and user-friendly design. This includes |
| bigger fonts, better typography and so on.</p> |
| |
| <p>On top of that, the new design is fully responsive which means you can now |
| better enjoy the content on smaller devices such as mobile phones and tablets.</p> |
| |
| <h4 id="improved-and-re-designed-landing-page">Improved and re-designed landing page</h4> |
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| <p>We know that landing pages are very important so we have decided to totally |
| re-design and re-organise ours.</p> |
| |
| <p>New landing page now displays all the important information (project features, |
| code examples, showcases some companies and projects using Libcloud) and also |
| features a more clear call to action.</p> |
| |
| <h4 id="blog-section">Blog section</h4> |
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| <p>New website now features a fully-fledged blog.</p> |
| |
| <p>We will use the blog to post important project news, keep you up to date with |
| what is currently going on and post case studies and stories from projects and |
| companies which are using Libcloud.</p> |
| |
| <p>If you are using an RSS reader to stay up to date, we also offer an |
| <a href="/blog/atom.xml">ATOM feed</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h4 id="updated-credits-page">Updated Credits Page</h4> |
| |
| <p><a href="/credits.html">Credits</a> page now features an up to date list of people who have |
| contributed code and documentation.</p> |
| |
| <p>As noted on that page, the list is automatically generated from the CHANGES |
| file so it might not be 100% accurate.</p> |
| |
| <h4 id="search-engine-optimizations">Search Engine Optimizations</h4> |
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| <p>We have made some changes which will make our website a bit more friendly to |
| the web crawlers and search engines. We hope this will make it easier for you |
| to more quickly find the content you are looking for.</p> |
| |
| <p>The changes we have made include improvements to the underlying HTML markup, |
| addition of the <a href="http://ogp.me/">OpenGraph</a> tags and an addition of a sitemap.</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="under-the-hood">Under the Hood</h3> |
| |
| <p>Old website was powered by <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html">Apache CMS</a>. It mostly worked good enough for |
| simple use cases, but a small user base means it lacks a large ecosystem around |
| it which is pretty standard for many other popular content management systems.</p> |
| |
| <p>Because of that, we have decided to switch to <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a>, a Ruby based static |
| website and blog engine.</p> |
| |
| <p>On top of that, the new website is fully responsive and built using |
| <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/">Bootstrap 3</a> front-end framework.</p> |
| |
| <p>Similar to the old website, source code is still stored in an SVN repository |
| so all the benefits we get from version control are preserved.</p> |
| |
| <p>Source code of the new website can be found in the <a href="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/libcloud/site/trunk/">SVN repository</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="conclusion">Conclusion</h3> |
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| <p>We hope you will like and enjoy the new website.</p> |
| |
| <p>We also hope the new website now better reflects the underlying evolution of |
| the library and the direction we are heading.</p> |
| |
| <p>If you have any suggestions on how we can make the website even better, don’t |
| hesitate and share it with us. You can send your feedback to the |
| <a href="/community.html#mailing-lists">mailing list</a>, or you can <a href="/community.html#website-repository">checkout the website repository</a> and make |
| the changes yourself.</p> |
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| <h2><a href="/blog/2014/01/22/libcloud-0-14-0-released.html">Libcloud 0.14.0 released</a></h2> |
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| <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus on Jan 22, 2014</span> |
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| <div class="post-content"> |
| <p>We are pleased to announce a long awaited Libcloud 0.14.0 release.</p> |
| |
| <p>This is a first release in the 0.14 series which means it brings many |
| (and I mean many!) new features, changes and improvements.</p> |
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| <h3 id="release-highlights">Release highlights</h3> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>To make working with providers which support multiple regions easier and |
| more user-friendly, some of the drivers have moved away from the “one |
| class per region” to a single class plus “region” argument model. Those |
| drivers include: EC2, Rackspace, ElasticHosts, Joyent, CloudFiles.</li> |
| <li>Addition of a programmatic way of updating the pricing file and ability |
| to use a custom pricing file. For more information, please see |
| https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/pricing.html#using-a-custom-pricing-file</li> |
| <li>Addition of block storage management methods to the following drivers: |
| OpenNebula, OpenStack, EC2</li> |
| <li>Unification of the extension arguments for handling security groups in |
| the EC2 and OpenStack driver</li> |
| <li>New standard compute API for SSH key-pair management</li> |
| <li>Many new features and improvements in the CloudStack driver</li> |
| <li>New compute and load balancer driver for Google Compute Engine (GCE)</li> |
| <li>Ability to export Libcloud’s DNS zone to BIND zone format</li> |
| <li>and much more!</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Full change log can be found <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-with-apache-libcloud-0-14-0-beta3">here</a> and <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-with-apache-libcloud-0-14-0">here</a> (keep in mind that this |
| release also includes all the changes from 0.14.0-beta3).</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="note-about-backward-compatibility">Note about backward compatibility</h3> |
| |
| <p>Some of the changes noted above are backward incompatible. For more |
| information on what has changed and how to update your code to work with |
| a new release, please visit the <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrade_notes.html#libcloud-0-14-0">Upgrade Notes page</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="download">Download</h3> |
| |
| <p>Libcloud 0.14.0 can be downloaded from |
| <a href="https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">https://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| |
| <p>or installed using pip:</p> |
| |
| <figure class="highlight"> |
| <pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">pip <span class="nb">install </span>apache-libcloud<span class="o">==</span>0.14.0</code></pre> |
| </figure> |
| |
| <h3 id="upgrading">Upgrading</h3> |
| |
| <p>If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:</p> |
| |
| <figure class="highlight"> |
| <pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">pip <span class="nb">install</span> <span class="nt">--upgrade</span> apache-libcloud<span class="o">==</span>0.14.0</code></pre> |
| </figure> |
| |
| <h3 id="documentation">Documentation</h3> |
| |
| <p>Regular and API documentation is available at |
| <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="bugs--issues">Bugs / Issues</h3> |
| |
| <p>If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker |
| <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a>. Don’t forget to attach an |
| example and / or test which reproduces your problem.</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="thanks">Thanks</h3> |
| |
| <p>Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible!</p> |
| |
| <p>Full list of people who contributed to this release can be found in the |
| <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/changelog.html#changes-with-apache-libcloud-0-14-0">Changelog</a>.</p> |
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| <p>Tags: <a href="/blog/tags/news.html" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="/blog/tags/release-announcement.html" rel="tag">release announcement</a></p> |
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| <h2><a href="/blog/2014/01/01/quick-update-about-0-13-3-release-and-digitalocean-vulnerability.html">Quick update about 0.13.3 release and DigitalOcean vulnerability</a></h2> |
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| <span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus on Jan 01, 2014</span> |
| |
| <div class="post-content"> |
| <p>This is a quick update about the recent 0.13.3 security release and the |
| DigitalOcean vulnerability.</p> |
| |
| <p>DigitalOcean updated their blog post. The updated post says that |
| scrubbing is now enabled by default for all the newly issued destroy |
| requests:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote> |
| <p>All Destroys Default to Scrub</p> |
| |
| <p>We have updated the destroy method to scrub on all destroys, both for |
| web and API requests.</p> |
| </blockquote> |
| |
| <p>This means that no action is required on the client side and upgrading |
| to 0.13.3 should not be necessary anymore.</p> |
| |
| <p>References:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/418140046265294848">https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/418140046265294848</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://digitalocean.com/blog_posts/transparency-regarding-data-security">https://digitalocean.com/blog_posts/transparency-regarding-data-security</a></li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>Tags: <a href="/blog/tags/news.html" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="/blog/tags/security-release.html" rel="tag">security release</a></p> |
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