We have released new Linux contextualization packages (ver. 5.4.2) with wider platform support, a few improvements and bugfixes. This release is a major update. New packages are available for download on the GitHub with updated documentation for KVM/vCenter environments. Packages are compatible with the OpenNebula versions from 4.6 to 5.4.

The main focus of this release was to come again with updated packages for the Amazon EC2 environments used via OpenNebula Cloud Bursting; these packages weren’t updated for some time. Currently, only main systemd platforms CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9 are supported via the dedicated one-context-ec2 packages, but other similar systems should work as well. Also, we have aligned the support for Alpine Linux contextualization (formerly maintained in the separate repository) and merged the required changes into the general Linux contextualization repository. From this release on, we provide the Alpine Linux package for easy setup. A fix contributed by Dmitry Tyzhnenko ensures the sudo configuration is created, if the contextualized user (specified via context parameter USERNAME) is different to root. There are also several bugfixes in the scripts, dependencies, and package creation. Please see the complete release notes on the download page.

On top of that, new KVM appliances with Alpine Linux 3.6 and Fedora 27 were added, and most of our existing generic Linux KVM appliances were updated on the OpenNebula Marketplace.

We have added the very new EC2 contextualized appliances on the OpenNebula Marketplace for a quick start with the OpenNebula Cloud Bursting on the Amazon EC2! These are available for the current generation of the EBS based HVM instances in the EC2 region us-east-1.

In case of any questions, you can use our public forum or submit an issue on the GitHub.