Introduction

The 1.3 release of jclouds includes results of 3-months effort by our contributors. A total of 57 Issues were addressed between jclouds 1.2.0 and the current revision of jclouds 1.3 (1.3.1).

Notable updates include

• support for Citrix CloudStack 2.2.13+
• support for vCloud Director 1.5 endpoints
• support for OpenStack Nova via our eucalyptus support

This release also supports more locations than ever including:

• introduction of Ninefold compute in Sydney and HP Cloud Object Storage in SuperNAP (vegas)
• new aws-ec2 regions in Oregon and São Paulo
• new ElasticHosts zones in Toronto and Los Angeles

We also have a few new tricks for power users

• image-id and login-user properties allow you to customize the default ComputeService template.
• support for adding/removing nodes from Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers
• solid state drive (SSD) support for Cloudsigma
• support for aws-s3 Reduce Redundancy Storage
• new property to automatically assign elastic IP addresses (handy for OpenStack Nova).

As always, we keep our examples site up to date so you can see how to work this stuff. Also, check out recent jclouds integrations including Abiquo 2.0, Apache Camel, ElasticInbox, and GigaSpaces Cloudify.

Please submit your own ideas and let us know if there are features you'd like to see, need help on, or are interested in contributing. Make sure you follow us on Twitter for updates. If you are interested in learning about jclouds 1.3 IRL, come to our training in Stockholm or our next meetup at Jfokus

Credits

Special thanks to Alcatel Lucent for sponsoring the majority of our CloudStack implementation, and the CloudStack community for answering hundreds of questions over the last year! Additional thanks to Jeremy Daggett from HP for contributing HP Cloud Object Storage support, and setting stage for further OpenStack improvements in future releases. Also thanks to Jesse Wilson from Gson, who took time with us to hone our use of Gson to the point where we no longer require patches.

Finally, thanks to everyone who contributed their time and effort in order to make this release happen. Check out who's been busy here.

API Breakers and Upgrades

Deprecated methods have been removed in this release. We will remove compute.clj and blobstore.clj next release in favor of the compute2/blobstore2 out for a while now. We have upgraded all of our dependencies including guava 11.0.1, gson 2.1, and sshj 0.7.0

Cool Stuff

We've improved our development process to include simulating api server responses. Check out our provider testing page for more.

Tracking

Status of release 1.3.1 is tracked in issue 817

Test Results

maven dependency	abstraction	iso 3166 codes	result	notes
o.j.p/aws-cloudwatch		US-VA,US-CA,US-OR,BR-SP,IE,SG	1/1
o.j.p/aws-ec2	compute	US-VA,US-CA,US-OR,BR-SP,IE,SG	153/153
o.j.p/aws-s3	blobstore	US,US-CA,US-OR,BR-SP,IE,SG	103/103
o.j.p/azureblob	blobstore	US-TX,US-IL,IE-D,SG,NL-NH,HK	94/95	failures
o.j.p/bluelock-vcloud-zone01	compute	US-IN	123/123
o.j.p/cloudfiles-uk	blobstore	GB-SLG	88/88
o.j.p/cloudfiles-us	blobstore	US-TX	89/90	failures
o.j.p/cloudloadbalancers-uk	loadbalancer	GB-SLG	8/8
o.j.p/cloudloadbalancers-us	loadbalancer	US-IL,US-TX	8/8
o.j.p/cloudonestorage	blobstore	US-GA,US-TX	63/71	failures
o.j.p/cloudservers-uk	compute	GB-SLG	151/152	failures
o.j.p/cloudservers-us	compute	US-IL,US-TX	151/151
o.j.p/cloudsigma-zrh	compute	CH-ZH	139/149	failures
o.j.p/cloudsigma-lvs	compute	US-NV	138/146	failures
o.j.p/elastichosts-lax-p	compute	US-CA	129/129
o.j.p/elastichosts-lon-b	compute	GB-LND	129/129
o.j.p/elastichosts-lon-p	compute	GB-LND	129/129
o.j.p/elastichosts-sat-p	compute	US-TX	129/129
o.j.p/elastichosts-tor-p	compute	CA-OR	129/129
o.j.p/eucalyptus-partnercloud-ec2	compute	US-CA	117/130	failures
o.j.p/eucalyptus-partnercloud-s3	blobstore	US-CA	100/108	failures
o.j.p/hpcloud-objectstorage-lvs	blobstore	US-NV	88/88
o.j.p/go2cloud-jhb1	compute	ZA-GP	128/129
o.j.p/gogrid	compute	US-CA,US-VA,NL-NH	115/116	failures
o.j.p/greenhousedata-element-vcloud	compute	US-WY	123/134	failures
o.j.p/ninefold-compute	compute	AU-NSW	113/113
o.j.p/ninefold-storage	blobstore	AU-NSW	63/69	failures
o.j.p/openhosting-east1	compute	US-VA	128/129
o.j.p/rimuhosting	compute	NZ-AUK,US-TX,AU-NSW,GB-LND	PASS/TOTAL	failures
o.j.p/savvis-symphonyvpdc	compute	US,CA	FAIL/FAIL	unless tests stabilize, we should move this back to sandbox
o.j.p/serverlove-z1-man	compute	GB-MAN	129/129
o.j.p/skalicloud-sdg-my	compute	MY-10	128/129	failures
o.j.p/slicehost	compute	US-IL,US-TX,US-MO	129/144	failures
o.j.p/softlayer	compute	SG,US-CA,US-TX,US-VA,US-WA,US-TX	129/129
o.j.p/stratogen-vcloud-mycloud	compute	GB	125/130	failures
o.j.p/synaptic-storage	blobstore	US-VA,US-TX	63/65	failures
o.j.p/trmk-ecloud	compute	US-FL,US-VA,NL-NH,BR-SP	142/150	failures
o.j.p/trmk-vcloudexpress	compute	US-FL	142/151	failures

maven dependency	abstraction	endpoint tested	result	notes
o.j.a/atmos	blobstore		pending
o.j.a/byon	compute		pending
o.j.a/cloudfiles	blobstore		pending
o.j.a/cloudservers	compute		pending
o.j.a/cloudstack	compute	http://72.52.126.25/client/api	120/188	re-run w/global access
o.j.a/deltacloud	compute	https://api.deltacloud.org/	fail	jclouds needs to be updated to 0.4.1
o.j.a/elasticstack	compute		pending
o.j.a/eucalyptus	compute		pending
o.j.a/filesystem	blobstore		pending
o.j.a/nova	compute		pending
o.j.a/swift	blobstore	https://region-a.geo-1.objects.hpcloudsvc.com/auth	88/88
o.j.a/vcloud	compute	https://zone01.bluelock.com/api	33/34	failures
o.j.a/walrus	blobstore		pending