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Release Notes: jclouds Beta 8

Introduction

We resolved 23 issues in our jclouds 1.0-beta-8 release. While mostly a bugfix release we have a few notable features to discuss.

New Features

  • Tested support for a peer1-storage
  • jclouds can now persist credentials of started nodes across contexts, which allows you to run scripts without ever knowing the login credentials of nodes.
  • Integration tests are stronger including os version match tests and running web services on launched nodes
  • Stabalized terremark ecloud support

API Breaking Changes

  • EC2Hardware object has been removed in favor of the base Hardware class.
  • ScriptBuilder.build is now ScriptBuilder.render so that it can implement the Statement interface.

Known Issues

  • trmk-ecloud
    • only the centos template work in ComputeService
  • slicehost
    • note that soft followed by hard reboot ends often throws a server error saying wait.
  • bluelock-vcdirector/vcloud
    • you have to copy vAppTemplates into your catalog from the public one before they can be used.
    • ComputeService has no hooks for changing the hardware yet
  • eucalyptus tests skipped due to no resources on the test cloud
  • the following providers are unstable
    • rimuhosting