We want to let you know about what we are up to with the main news from the last month regarding the OpenNebula project, including what you can expect in the following months.

Last few days have been very hectic for the OpenNebula Team due to the second edition of the OpenNebula Conference 2014. Shortly we will post a summary of our experiences in the conference, as well as the videos, presentations and photos.

Technology

As part of our commitment to deliver the best possible cloud experience, the OpenNebula team released this month the stable version Fox Fur 4.10.

A couple of weeks later a number of bugfixes were developed and some minor features as well, so a new maintenance version was also released, 4.10.1. These bug fixes covers different OpenNebula components, like for instance the command line interface, the Cloud View self service portal, OpenNebula Core and several drivers (Auth, Storage), OneFlow and more. The full list of bug fixes are displayed in the development portal.. OpenNebula 4.10.1 also comes with several new features related to the new vCenter integration that made its debut in 4.10, like encrypting password of VCenter hosts in templates, search for templates recursively in vCenter Folders and context for vCenter VMs.

This past November was particularly busy for the OpenNebula team, with the release of vOneCloud 1.0 RC, a CentOS Linux virtual appliance for vSphere that contains all required OpenNebula services optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments. vOneCloud is for companies that want to create a self-service cloud environment on top of their VMware infrastructure without having to abandon their investment in VMware and retool the entire stack, allowing to deploy an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud just in a few minutes. vOneCloud is capable of turning infrastructures managed by already familiar VMware tools, such as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager, into full feature clouds where the provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy cloud features are offered by OpenNebula.

A new maintenance version of AppMarket was also released (we’ve told you we’ve been busy), solves issues reported by the community and has been verified to work with OpenNebula 4.10.

Moreover, this last month OpenNebula turned 7 years old! And we thought it was time to revisit and explain again what “open”, “simple”, “scalable”, and “flexible” mean for us.

But the OpenNebula team never (well, almost never 😉 ) rests, in a few days we will deliver a maintenance 4.10.2 release. And of course we are already working on a 4.12 release for the end of January.

Community

Our community is constantly surprising us, while at the same time creating great contents, sometimes even lowering the difficulty to understand and deploy OpenNebula, like this french tutorial explaining how to install OpenNebula in easy steps.

We want to thank Vincent for their amazing contribution of Ansible playbooks to deploy a fully functional OpenNebula cloud:

We are very pleased with both projects as they aim to keep things simple which is important to us since we are a very small team and have to move forward at a rather fast pace.

We will also give a warm welcome to the guys from Control Engineering, very glad you like OpenNebula and we are sure you will make the most out of your hardware with it.

And last but not least, we love community contributions that extend and create a rich ecosystem. A very good example comes by then hand of our friends at BlackBerry, with the release of a Test Kitchen Driver for OpenNebula.

Outreach

We held the second edition of the OpenNebula Conference this past week in Berlin, Germany. It was a great success, with amazing talks from folks from PuppetLabs, E-Post, Deloitte and many more;as well as, borrowing words from Karanbir Singh, an excellent hallway track. Shortly we will post a summary of our experiences in the conference, as well as the videos, presentations and photos.

OpenNebula team members were on the road this last month to spread the OpenNebula word. For instance, in association with the University of Extremadura an OpenNebula tutorial were given last 11 and 12 of November.

We have upcoming TechDays in future months, if you are interested in OpenNebula you can check the project page. Send us an email to events@opennebula.org or the community discuss mailing list if you are interested in hosting a TechDay event. We would also like to invite you to join us in the upcoming FOSDEM’15, check out the details.

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.