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This notification concerns scheduled maintenance on the Fuga platform which will take place on Tuesday 23 February from 00:01 until 04:00 CET. Google and Red Hat have released a patch for a critical security vulnerability in the widely used GNU C library (glibc). The leak allows an attack, whereby, through a stack-based buffer overflow, arbitrary code can be executed. More information about the vulnerability can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7547 Due to the seriousness of this issue, we have decided to patch this vulnerability during a maintenance window scheduled ahead of our regular maintenance windows.

There are three ways to interact with your Fuga OpenStack environment: through the Horizon web interface, using the OpenStack CLI tools and directly from your application using a RESTful API. Using Horizon is by far the easiest, but also the most restrictive in terms of possible automation. Using the CLI tools gives you more options, and the most possibilities can be gained by directly interacting with the API from within your application.

Last week, we updated and improved our cost overview page within the ‪‎OpenStack‬ dashboard. From now on, it’s very easy to view your monthly costs, interactively divided by compute, storage and network. Besides this it’s possible to view a forecast for the next month. Visit your dashboard to experience the improvements or create a Fuga account today.

2016 has just started, but we can already tell you that we have many exciting things planned for its first three months. For example: OpenStack Liberty We’re working hard on the implementation of the latest OpenStack release (Liberty) to our production environment. We’d hoped to have the upgrade in place by now, but ran into unforeseen problems when testing the upgrade on our staging environments. This version has hundreds of new features and improvements, which you can find at the OpenStack website.

Yesterday, the OpenSSH project reported a client side vulnerability affecting OpenSSH versions 5.4 to 7.1. The vulnerability could cause an SSH client to leak key information, potentially exposing users to man-in-the-middle attacks. The vulnerability could allow a malicious SSH server to make the OpenSSH client leak memory contents, including data such as private keys. The vulnerability exists only after a client has successfully authenticated with a malicious SSH server. The vulnerability only exists in the client, not the server software itself.

On February 16 we will organize an intermediate level workshop with the subject ‘working with OpenStack API’s’. The workshop will take place at our office in Alkmaar and starts at 16:00 hrs. On March 8, we will organize another beginner course; ‘Start working with OpenStack’. We are also working on an advance level course, which will take place in Q2.

From today, it is possible to have a live insight into the status of the Fuga cloud. We have launched a page where you can find information on disruptions and maintenance. https://status.fuga.io

We’re currently testing and implementing live chat functionality for Fuga sales support. If one of our operators is online, you should now find a live chat feature at the bottom right on the Fuga website. After we’ve tried this out for a time, we’ll also consider adding the same feature for technical support.

Second availability zone is coming in 2016 At the moment, we are working on a second availability zone for Fuga, because we believe that it is important to offer our customers a redundant solution. We will provide you with more details and a planning as soon as we have more information. Public OpenStack Cloud Workshop On December 1, we organized our first public OpenStack cloud workshop at our office in Alkmaar.

During the night of 16 on 17 December, we will perform maintenance to the Fuga platform to upgrade the hardware configurations of the compute nodes. This maintenance window starts at 00:01 CET and will end around 04:00 CET. We will add additional memory to the servers in small, carefully selected batches. We will bring each server and all instances on it down, add memory to the server, and reboot. We expect the downtime for servers and instances to be about 15 minutes each.

Costs overview Within the next 2 or 3 weeks, it’s possible to have a look into the costs generated by your instances and storage. We consider it important for our customers to be able to see how much they are spending. This will prevent bill shock and should prevent unpleasant surprises. Preparing the Fuga platform for Liberty Two nights ago we performed major OpenStack maintenance on the Fuga platform. All OpenStack components gained updates, many of which are preparations for the upgrade to OpenStack Liberty.

On Tuesday 1 December, we’re organizing the new Fuga Training Tuesday at our office in Alkmaar. It’s the first edition of a new initiative in which we offer workshops and trainings to both new and experienced users of Fuga and OpenStack. Training Tuesday is a small-scale event in order to give attendees the personal attention they may need and give them a chance to ask any questions they might have.

Our development team is currently in the final stages of adding functionality to the Fuga dashboard for live insight into the costs generated by your instances and storage. Because we’re now live with Fuga, we consider it important for our customers to be able to see how much they’re spending. This will prevent bill shock and should prevent unpleasant surprises. At the moment, we’re still working on the latest functionality and are rigorously testing for possible bugs.

OpenStack Liberty released On October 15, the new version of OpenStack, Liberty, has officially been released. We have already started looking into the new release to flag the features we find most interesting and we will test them as soon as possible. We’ll create an internal proof of concept of the new release, perform compatibility tests and do a security review. Like with all previous releases, we intend to upgrade to this latest version as soon as we’ve tested the stability and new features.

On the 17th of September we attended the OpenStack Benelux Conference in Bussum to present Fuga. At the conference, Tjebbe de Winter, our CTO, joined John Zannos of Canonical on stage during his keynote presentation at the main podium. After this keynote, Fuga officially became a fact, since this was our first public appearance. Later in the afternoon, Tjebbe also gave a presentation for a smaller audience, where he explained a bit more about our development process, the design choices we made and the technologies we used to build Fuga.

We are thrilled to inform you that we have gone live with our public OpenStack cloud. Since yesterday, you can start working on our OpenStack cloud that goes by the name of Fuga. This means that the beta testing period has come to an end. To get started with the Fuga cloud, you have to create a new account on our website. You need an invite code, which you can find below.

This is just a quick update regarding information you’ve probably been waiting for. Today, we’ve published pricing and features on our OpenStack website (which is still a work in progress). We’re fairly certain this pricing is final, but it may still change nevertheless.You can also find a list of all the OpenStack features that will be part of the initial release of the service. A few are still in beta and will be added to the service when they are stable and secure enough.

Good news! We’re almost there! We’ve made significant progress on almost all aspects of our OpenStack platform and we’re nearly ready for an official launch. This week, we’ve performed one final major test and maintenance cycle on the platform in order to find and fix any remaining flaws. We’ve updated configurations and software, done some serious stress testing, and conducted disaster recovery tests. Naturally, we hoped to encounter as few weaknesses as possible.

To our OpenStack testers: We trust you’re still enjoying the test period of our OpenStack platform. We’re steadily approaching the moment the service will be able to go into production. In the meantime, if you have any questions and suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. This week, starting tomorrow, we’ll be performing some major maintenance and tests on the OpenStack platform. This will surely have an impact on your instances and test environment.

We’ve just released a new beta image for Cyso OpenStack for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE. To give you an understanding in what went into creating this image, we’ve posted an article about it on our blog. Read it here. The image can now be found in the image library.

We’ve had a really busy period with lots of OpenStack things going on. During the past month we’ve more than doubled the amount of beta testers on our platform, upgraded the entire platform to the latest OpenStack release, have worked on more features and made a great deal of progress on accounting and administrative functionality. Putting the platform through its paces Some of our new testers on the platform have been really pushing the platform and the I/O performance; we’ve had one instance of a user copying data at a speed of over 800 MB per second.