Closing out 2018…and welcoming in 2019!!

2018 has been another exciting year for OpenNebula. It has brought continued developments and advancements in the OpenNebula product capabilities. At the same time, we’ve seen a fervor and a steady commitment by the User Community which continues to bring unmatched value. At OpenNebula Systems, we have our sights set on continued improvement for 2019, and we are excited about several promising, emerging developments. But again, one of the key dynamics of the project is that we wouldn’t be able to grow without you.

For that reason, one of the recent developments in the community has been our request for your participation in our 2018 User Survey.  This is a simple vehicle to allow us to learn about the use cases, platforms, and overarching technical needs of the OpenNebula User Community.  We look to remain in synch with your needs, and to develop alongside with you. Fill it out, and share your thoughts!

Speaking of developments…

Among the various version releases this year, we released version 5.6 “Blue Flash” with a huge set of improvements both at the core level, as well as for vCenter integration. And from there, we have jumped right into focused development on the upcoming version 5.8.  In it, we have been working on many different features – a long-awaited support for LXD containers, being one of them.

2018 has seen a certain dedicated focus on the emerging developments surrounding Edge Computing, and while we have been working closely with customers and partners, learning the details of evolving use cases, we have also made developments around integrations with OpenNebula along “the edge”.  Earlier this year, we released an initial prototype of “oneProvision”, allowing users to provision and deploy bare-metal resources directly within an OpenNebula cluster.  Upcoming development of oneProvision will include being able to deploy not only one host, but a cluster of hosts.  At the same time, we partnered with Packet to demonstrate our continued focus in bringing capabilities to the edge.

Recent releases of new capabilities like miniONE and VirtualNetwork Scheduler, and the Image Converter to/from VMDK and QCOW2 all demonstrate our driven effort to making OpenNebula the easiest-to-use platform out there.

The “Calendar of Events”

In 2018, we held several OpenNebula TechDay events throughout Europe – in Sofia hosted by StorPool, in Barcelona hosted by CSUC, and in Frankfurt hosted by LINBIT – and in the US – in Santa Clara, CA hosted by Hitachi Vantara and in Cambridge, MA hosted by OpenNebula Systems.  We also held our OpenNebulaConf in Amsterdam.  We thank our sponsors and hosts for collaborating to put these events together.

Events schedule in 2019

The lineup for OpenNebula TechDays for this coming year will tentatively be in the following locations, with dates and details to be determined:

• Frankfurt
• Barcelona
• Vienna
• Sofia
• Boston

And plan to attend our 2019 OpenNebulaConf in Barcelona on October 21-22, 2019.

Great support from the Community

Lastly, as we continuously try to make clear, the OpenNebula project would not have the vitality nor the reach it has if it weren’t for our dedicated User Community.  We’ve seen a continued growth of OpenNebula Champions.  Throughout the year, users have taken the time to publish tutorials like these from Pandora FMS, Virtuozzo 7, and CSUC.  Our OpenNebula Blog has been used by many from the Community to publish share insight and experiences. This year, we also created our Partner Ecosystem, another instrument to show and share integrations between ONE and other great technologies.

This has been an exciting year for OpenNebula! We give you our utmost thanks, and we look forward to our collaboration going into 2019!!

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