[ANNOUNCE] Deltacloud API 1.0 release notes

Hi guys, On 19 June we announced a new milestone version of Deltacloud API, 1.0.0. This version came with a **huge** list of improvements[1]. This is a quick wrap-up of the most important additions: * Deltacloud API now comes with Amazon EC2 API front end. This should help customers who already have EC2-based infrastructure to easily switch between providers without reworking their codebase. This front end is experimental and just few limited features are supported, like launching an instance, querying images/instances and managing instance state. Ability to run multiple frontends (deltacloudd -f ec2, cimi, deltacloud) * Deltacloud is now a modular[2] Sinatra application and can be used as an extension for any Rack-based application by mounting. As a side effect, we now expose our drivers API as a Ruby library, so clients can now use Deltacloud without starting a web server. The blog[2] post I mentioned above includes examples of how to use this feature. Please mind that this feature is also experimental, and we can't guarantee that the drivers API does not change in future (which is unlikely ;-)) * A new collection, 'metrics', was brought in to support Amazon CloudWatch metrics. To use this feature, you need to enable 'CloudWatch' support when launching the instance by using the 'metrics=1' parameter. * We're now in process of switching from different testing suites (rspec, test::unit, cucumber, etc...) to use purely 'minitest'[3]. * A lot of Ruby 1.9<=>1.8 compatibility bugs have been fixed and Deltacloud API should now run smoothly on MRI 1.9, including all our testing suites. * A lot of small improvements have been made in various drivers. OpenStack drivers now come with v2 API support (and keystone authentication), EC2 adds a new hardware profile (m1-medium), RHEV-M and VSphere are now more precise in error reporting, etc. * A new driver was contributed from Fujitsu (Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform - FGCP)[3] * Tons of networking stuff have been done on the CIMI front-end side, and the CIMI client application got support for additional drivers. * The website got fresh new look and content update[4] (big thanks to Dagmar!!!) There are other minor changes which are not mentioned here. If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to ask on #deltacloud-internal or #deltacloud @ freenode IRC channels or contact us. The packages for Fedora 17 and Fedora 18 are ready for testing here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/deltacloud-core-1.0.0-1.fc17 [1] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=deltacloud.git;a=blob;f=NEWS [2] http://mifo.sk/deltacloud-as-library-and-more [3] http://www.fujitsu.com/global/solutions/cloud/solutions/global-cloud-plat... [4] http://deltacloud.apache.org/ Michal Fojtik http://deltacloud.org mfojtik(a)redhat.com