Here’s our monthly newsletter with the main news from the last month, including what you can expect in the coming months.

Technology

We announced a new rapid release development cycle that will allow us to more quickly deliver new features and innovations to the community as well as incorporate requirements of our users and feedback from the community. Shortly afterwards, we announced the first pre-release of OpenNebula 3.2, with OpenNebula 3.2 Final scheduled for December 20th (the blue-prints for this release can be found at the development portal).

A few days ago, we celebrated OpenNebula’s fourth birthday! We took a look back at how the project has grown in the last four years.

C12G Labs released OpenNebula 3.0 Pro, and a new version of the VMWare addon. In fact, the VMWare addon, with extended features developed by C12G Labs, will now be included with OpenNebula, starting with version 3.2.

Community

openSUSE 12.1 was recently released, with OpenNebula included in their Virtualization and Cloud repository.

OW2 announced its first CompatibleOne Cloud Broker Demonstration, enabling the deployment of applications across different OpenNebula and OpenStack cloud computing heterogeneous infrastructures.

Ken Barber (from Puppet Labs) gave a talk on Puppet and OpenNebula at the London Puppet Users Meetup. You can see a video of his talk here.

The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan’s largest public research organization, was added to our list of featured users.

Finally, we were glad to see that most of the cloud providers in EGI (European Grid Infrastructure) are using OpenNebula.

Outreach

We have the following upcoming events:

• OpenNebula will participate in the Open Source Virtualization and Cloud devroom at FOSDEM 2012 (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting), Brussels, Belgium, February 4-5, 2012.
• A workshop on basic and advanced use of OpenNebula will take place in the Open Source Datacenter Conference (OSDC) in Nuremberg, Germany, April 24-26, 2012

Remember that you can see slides and resources from past events in our Outreach page.