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Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Exploring Alternative Hypervisors with Apache CloudStack | Episode #82

Great Things with Great Tech Podcast

Anthony Spiteri

Tech News, News

5 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Not a hypervisor, but a management platform with hooks into many virtualization stacks... #Apache CloudStack orchestrating #IaaS environments across cloud infrastructures including public, private, and hybrid setups, containers and more! Join us in Episode 82 of Great Things with Great Tech, featuring Rohit Yadav, VP of Engineering at Apache CloudStack. Rohit and I talk about the evolution of Apache CloudStack from its early days at cloud.com to the Citrix acquisition, to donation to the Apache Cloud Foundation to now, becoming a key player in providing turnkey, scalable cloud solutions across various industries. Apache CloudStack has matured into a robust cloud orchestration platform, enabling enterprises and service providers to efficiently manage large-scale cloud environments. With its comprehensive support for multiple hypervisors, seamless Kubernetes integration, and low total cost of ownership, CloudStack continues to be a pivotal force in the cloud computing sector. Technology and Topics Mentioned: Apache CloudStack VMware, KVM, XenServer Kubernetes Integration CloudStack UI Enhancements Terraform and Ansible Multi-tenancy and High Availability Open Source Licensing: GPL and Apache Virtualization Technologies Storage Solutions: NFS, Ceph, MinIO Network Virtualization and MPLS Support VMware and Broadcom Developments Cloud Computing Platforms: OpenStack, OpenNebula ☑️ Web: https://https://cloudstack.apache.org/ ☑️ Crunchbase:https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/apache-cloudstack ☑️ Support the Channel: https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt ☑️ Technology and Topics Mentioned: Truebit, Blockchain, Offchain Verification, Web 3.0, Decentralized Applications, Game Theory, AI, Supply Chain, Compliance. ☑️ Be on #GTwGT: Contact via Twitter @GTwGTPodcast or visit https://www.gtwgt.com ☑️ Subscribe to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GTwGTPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 ☑️ Subscribe to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Y1Fgl4DgGpFd5Z4dHulVX • Web: https://gtwgt.com • Twitter: https://twitter.com/GTwGTPodcast • Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1519439787?mt=2&ls=1 ☑️ Music: https://www.bensound.com

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0:00.0

Back in 2010, I was working on a project to find our next generation of cloud control plan for our infrastructure as a service platform.

0:08.6

One of those was cloud.com or cloudstack.

0:11.3

And while I didn't choose it back then, if I had my time again and we were looking at this today, Apache Cloudstack would be top of the list.

0:18.4

Let's take a listen.

0:19.8

This is episode 82 of Great Things with Great Tech.

0:29.5

Hello and welcome to episode 82 of Great Things with Great Tech, the podcast highlighting company

0:34.6

doing great things with great technology. My name's Anthony Sputeri and in this episode we're talking to a technology stack, not so much

0:41.7

a company, one that's versatile and scalable in the open source cloud orchestration world

0:46.7

that supports multiple infrastructure as a service platforms underneath it.

0:51.1

It can handle various types of cloud environments, including public,

0:55.6

private, hybrid and edge technologies. Key features include deep hypervisor support, which is

1:02.9

very important in this day and age, platforms like KVM, VMware, Zen server, XCPNG,

1:10.0

all highly scalable and in a multi-tenant virtual networking model.

1:14.8

That platform is Apache Cloud Stack and joining me today is Rohat Yarder, VP of Engineering

1:19.8

at Shape Blue, the former VP of Apache Cloud Stack and a member of the ASF and on the

1:25.9

project management committee. That's a lot to get through. Welcome to the show, Rowett.

1:30.3

Thank you, Anthony. Pleasure to see you and meet you.

1:35.3

I've seen your podcasts in the past. So always, you know, good to see you and I love it to be here with you.

1:42.3

Good stuff. We're on it now. We're together talking about Apache CloudStack.

1:46.3

So before we get into that world, and it is a fascinating world in a world where I've had

1:50.5

some historical interactions as well with it, which we'll touch on later.

1:54.1

If you like great things with great tech and we'd like to feature in future episodes,

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