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Our team is taking part in CSEUUG meetup for the first time. We are going to present our CloudStack-UI there and uncover important discoveries we found during our way of implementing it which influence Apache CloudStack core functionality and can have significant role for future ACS adopters. Since we develop the CloudStack-UI from the perspective of an end user experience it requires a lot different helping mechanisms to make it flawless and we are going to discuss them with CSEUUG participants because many of them are core committers to ACS.

We often develop highly available, scalable systems for different markets like fintech, adtech and internet services. Those systems are developed with industry proven, solid open source products and architectures which efficiently solve common demands. Specifically, there are a lot of well-known players here, like lambda-architecture for streaming data processing or microservice architecture for horizontally scalable high performance services, noSQL solutions like Redis, Aerospike, MongoDB, message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), distributed coordination and discovery servers (Apache Zookeeper, Consul) and others. Those building blocks guarantee successfull application delivery in most of the cases and project team doesn’t spend development efforts for delivery of low level components, spending most of the time for the requirements development.

Sometimes, however the tasks occur which hardly can be solved with generic, well known building blocks mentioned before, and the need takes place in the development of the middleware or the search of appropriate very specialized means. The story is about our experience solving such kind of tasks.

We are happy to announce next ongoing release of the CloudStack-UI — 1.0.5. The release includes a lot of bug fixes and usability improvements. We have spend two months improving the code, implementing new features and fixing bugs found after the initial release. We missed the announces about 1.0.1 — 1.0.4 releases waiting while the most of the found bugs to be fixed. The code was switched to Angular 4 to support the latest stack. The release can be found at GitHub releases, also, the prepared Docker image is available at Dockerhub. It can be pulled from Dockerhub with:

docker pull bwsw/cloudstack-ui:1.0.5

In the mid 2014 we decided to move our VPS services from used at that moment OpenQRM platform due to several considerations. First and foremost, OpenQRM platform was initially chosen without deep analysis of business needs and therefore, neither satisfied manageability nor operational demands. Then, clearly, the development approach of the OpenQRM platform creators was quite odd — the product was based on bunch of bash scripts, PHP code and plain workarounds. In short, our customers were unhappy, service wasn’t much cop and rather incurred losses than earned profits.

We are happy to announce the release of our new open source product Cloudstack-UI that provides Apache CloudStack users with enhanced user-friendly interface.

Cloudstack-UI is our in-house open-source product first released in the April, 2017. It enables IaaS, PaaS providers, system integrators and other solution providers using ACS as a part of their products to give their end users modern, easy to interact with cloud management UI developed with up-to-date technological stack (Angular 2, Typescript, MDL). We consider it especially suitable solution for the companies that plan to launch public AWS-style cloud for IaaS or PaaS products.