The Apache CloudStack Project releases Apache CloudStack v4.15, an open-source enterprise cloud orchestration platform. Apache CloudStack offers an entire stack of features: compute orchestration, Network-as-a-Service, user and account management, full and open native API, resource accounting, and a first-class user interface. The Apache CloudStack Project also stated that the new release includes more than 200 new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
New features:
- A new, modern user interface at general availability
- vSphere advanced storage capabilities to support VMware storage policies, vSAN, VMFS6, vVols and datastore clusters
- VMware “deploy-as-is” templates with OVF properties support for deploying virtual appliances in CloudStack clouds
- Secondary storage management tools
- Roles based users in projects
- Dynamic roles enhancements for more granular RBAC
- Support for CentOS 8, Ubuntu 20.04, XCP-ng 8.1, and MySQL 8
- noVNC console for performance improvements to VM console access
- Redfish support for out of band management
- Unmanaging guest VMs
- PVLAN support for L2 networks
- Boot into hardware setup (VMware)
- Configure root disk via service offering