Hi all, I thought everybody would like to know that my colleagues and I at ShapeBlue have been recently working on a Kubernetes CAPI provider for Apache CloudStack (CAPC, https://github.com/aws/cluster-api-provider-cloudstack) in a joint collaboration with AWS (Amazon Web Services).
It is virtually finished and we’re in the process of donating the CAPC provider [1] to CNCF licensed under Apache Public License v2. Further development will be done under the Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle SIG community [2][3]. The Kubernetes Cluster API (https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/) simplifies provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters into specific target infrastructures using a consistent and declarative way. A CAPI provider for Apache CloudStack makes CloudStack one of those target infrastructures (https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/reference/providers.html). The provider is ready for use and has gone through extensive testing against CloudStack 4.14-4.16 across KVM, VMware, and XenServer/XCP-ng hypervisors [6] and has passed the e2e as well as k8s conformance tests. After the donation of CAPC is complete, like other providers, we'll work towards creating a proper docs website on how to participate, collaborate, use and develop CAPC, work on installation and usage guides and tutorial/training videos; for now, if anybody is interested in a demo our David has created a 10-min video [4]. We would like to ask all of you for your support - testing the CAPC provider and sending feedback – would also be interested in hearing if people here will find this useful. If anybody is interested in collaborating on the future development, you may participate on the k8s sig-cluster-lifecycle mailing list https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-cluster-lifecycle and soon you may join a new #cluster-api-cloudstack slack channel [5] under the Kubernetes project slack (users/developers can get an invite via http://slack.k8s.io, we've requested k8s project to create this new slack channel which is pending approval [5]). [1] https://github.com/aws/cluster-api-provider-cloudstack [2] https://github.com/kubernetes/org/issues/3279 [3] https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-cluster-lifecycle/c/sg46hgaIzJs/m/KcAqxSt5AQAJ [4] https://shapeblue-engineering-videos.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/capc/capc-demo-acs416.mp4 [5] https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/6427 [6] http://download.cloudstack.org/templates/capi-test/ Regards.
