word-break: break-all

[Peter]

Hi,

I find it terrible that the website has the following CSS on the body
element:

word-break: break-all;

This makes words break anywhere, not just at white space (word
boundaries), and unlike in books you read, it has no hyphen at the end
of the line. It looks bad and is annoying to read. I have never
encountered another web site where this setting is used for normal
paragraphs. Please fix it. Just remove this setting, or set it to
"normal". (see css reference here
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_word-break.asp)

Thanks,
Peter

authentication CloudStack 4.3

[Peter Nicholls]

Hi! I have seen that is available CloudStack 4.3 in the cloudstack.apache.org. 
Does this new version includes improvements in the user authentication? Does it 
include integration with keystone, saml, etc.? Otherwise, these topics are in 
development in a branch?
Thank you.

Local simulation of Apache Cloudstack instances/API endpoints: state of the art, target groups and use cases

[Muryshkin, Peter]

Hi all,

from what I can find, there are  three more or less established/already well 
elaborated approaches to simulate a CloudStack instance locallly.
Depending on the target group and their goals, they can have different levels 
of fidelity and usability.

1. Obviously CloudStack developers confgure a KVM development environment to 
work inside it, this is part of the Apache CloudStack Hackerbook kindly shared 
by ShapeBlue. [1]
2. For test scenarios, Hackerbook describes a mocked simulator approach [2]
3. For users for whom the whole cloud system is just a "black box", especially 
cloud beginners, there is a single integrated Docker container. [3]

With the rise of CI/CD and infrastructure as code automation practices,  where 
you just need more or less on demand one or even many versions of the 
CloudStack API,
 [3] appears to be a crucial building block in the cloud userspace before just 
"trying out CloudStack".

So it appears that there might be much demand on a Apache CloudStack 
containerized instance:

1. Demand from potential new adopters, for their "Apache CloudStack to go" demos
2. Demand from DevOps/GitOps/SRE/you-name-it enabled teams who implement their 
virtual infrastructure for example with Terraform and the CloudStack provider 
plugin and want to simulate rollout scenarios.

However, is this true?

* the container simulator hasn't been updated on DockerHub since a couple of 
years; is there another place in meantime or will this approach dumped for some 
reason?
* there is not so much discussion about this asset on mailing lists; so there 
is not so much demand as one might assume?

What do you think?

kind regards

--

Peter Muryshkin
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
https://www.linkedin.com/in/muryshkin/