ApacheCon EU 2014

Apache jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud and utilizes your Java or Clojure development skills. The jclouds API gives you the freedom to use portable abstractions or cloud-specific features. It's a multi-cloud toolkit that works with both public and private clouds.

There is a great community behind this toolkit working together to provide a better experience for developers in the cloud. Their goal is to simplify the control of many different clouds while still giving you the freedom to use cloud-specific features. The result is a toolkit that allows developers to write better code, in a shorter period of time, that works with supported clouds.

Learn about what jclouds can do for you.

Improved OVA support in CloudStack’ is a feature targeted for the 4.5 release of CloudStack. With this feature in place, users will be able to on-board an existing Virtual Machine into CloudStack with all of its disks intact.

The talk will focus on the architectural and design changes that will be made and on the new concepts that will be introduced into CloudStack as part of this feature. In addition, the talk will cover what the initial approach to the problem was and how based on community feedback it evolved into a better solution that aligns with how resources are traditionally created and orchestrated in CloudStack. It will also shed some light on how we could leverage this development work to add new functionalities going forward for e.g. adding support for other information encapsulated in an OVA like ISOs, networks, device controller types etc.