A summary of the activity of the OpenNebula project this last month.

The OpenNebulaConf EU 2017 is around the corner! This month in Madrid, keynote speakers such as BlackBerry, Trivago, Runtastic and the Ministry of the Flemish community, as well as other prominent members of the OpenNebula community will be sharing their experiences with OpenNebula. There are limited seats, register ASAP!

Technology

A new maintenance release of OpenNebula, 5.4.1, has been released this month. This release introduces new functionality:

• Scroll Bar in Sunstone VM Log.
• Add boolean to option list for User Inputs in VM template.
• Additional confirmation level for critical actions and VMs.
• fsck should locate the image based on just the name.
• Add volatile disk should allow user to specify size in MB as well as GB.
• Explain how to add HTTPS to XMLRPC.
• Wild VMs should import NICs and Disks.
• Ease DS selection on VM Template update and instantiation.
• Add scheduled actions to VM Templates.
• When a MarketplaceApp is removed from the MarketPlace it should be removed from OpenNebula.
• Add a custom css so it can be overridden easily for branding purposes.

Also, multiple bugfixes related with vCenter and Sunstone, as well as in other subsystems has been fixed. Take a look at the release notes for an exhaustive list of changes introduced in this version.

Based on OpenNebula 5.4.1, the latest version of vOneCloud (3.0.2) has also been released, bringing all the new functionality to the best cloud manager on top of vCenter.

This month the team is set to prepare the roadmap for the next OpenNebula version, 5.6. It is the perfect time to let us know about the features you’d like to see in OpenNebula!.

Community

Having our community spread the word about OpenNebula is the best thing that can happen to an open source project. It was somewhat of a surprise to learn that in the AWS summit in Madrid,folks from Securitas Direct showcased their development cloud built on OpenNebula and Ansible. Pretty cool stuff!

#SecuritasDirect presenting their hybrid cloud environment based on @Ansible @OpenNebula @VMware @AWScloud and @Oracle VM #AWSSummit

Also, having long time partners like NodeWeavers winning relevant prizes fills us with pride and joy! Kudos from here and thanks a lot for believing in us!

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Outreach

The OpenNebulaConf EU will take place in Madrid, Spain, this October. You can check the agenda for more details, keynotes feature BlackBerry, Trivago, Runtastic and the Ministry of the Flemish community. Also, make sure you register if you’ll be on the area! Watch the talks in the YouTube playlist, download the slides or take a look to the pictures of the first US edition of the OpenNebulaConf that happened in Boston this past June.

This past month members of the OpenNebula team traveled to Ede in the Netherlands to give an OpenNebula TechDay, hosted by BIT.nl. It was a beautiful experience, we are always glad to see that the OpenNebula community in the Netherlands is one of the healthiest! You can check here the list of talks.

Also, check out the list of official training from OpenNebula Systems for this year. If you are new to OpenNebula, or want to improve you knowledge with an in-depth OpenNebula admin course, those are the dates and locations you need to keep in mind.

Remember that you can see slides and resources from past events in our Events page. We have also created a Slideshare account where you can see the slides from some of our recent presentations.