[dev] [ANNOUNCE] Apache libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 release

[anthony shaw <an...@gmail.com>]

Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
multiple cloud provider APIs. It allows users to manage cloud services
(servers, storage, loadbalancers, DNS) offered by many different providers
through a single, unified and easy to use API.

We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2!

Release highlights

* Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold,
IBM SCE more details
* The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use region codes instead
of separate drivers for each region
* Introduce new list_regions class method on the base driver class
* Support for Dimension Data backup
* Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS drivers
* Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers
* Added Outscale storage driver

Full change log can be found at
https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/v1.0.0-rc2/CHANGES.rst

Download

Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 can be downloaded from
http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html
or installed using pip:

pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2

Upgrading

If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:

pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2

Upgrade notes

A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/upgrade-notes.html.

Documentation

API documentation can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/latest/.

We also have a new Sphinx documentation which can be found at
https://libcloud.apache.org/docs/.

Bugs / Issues

If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD>.
Don't forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your problem.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full list of
people who contributed to this release can be found in the CHANGES file
https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/v1.0.0-rc2/CHANGES.rst.

We would like to thank the following community members for their
contribution to this release:

Jeff Dunham
Max Illfelder
Ken Dreyer
Sam Song
Oltjano Terpollari
Javier M. Mellid

Re: [dev] [ANNOUNCE] Apache libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 release

[Samuel Marks <sa...@gmail.com>]

Thanks. Useful contributions as always. Your requests move allowed me to
fix cert validation on Windows, no more hacky workarounds!

Finally integrated this version into my code base just now (upgrading from
0.20.1). Was very fiddly to get the location attribute set, ended up
rewriting my JSON DSL to include `availability_zone` in addition to
everything. Like so:

  hardware:
    options:
      -
        id: "t1.micro"
        name: "Micro Instance"
        provider:
          name: "EC2"
          region: "ap-southeast-2"
  location:
    options:
      -
        provider:
          name: "EC2"
          region: "ap-southeast-2"
          availability_zone:
            name: "ap-southeast-2a"
            zone_state: "available"
            region_name: "ap-southeast-2"

The annoying thing here was the indirection around region_name and provider
name. Namely—pun intended!—working with *ap-southeast-2* and
*ap-southeast2a*.

Looking very much forward to the 1.0 release proper ^_^,

Samuel Marks
http://linkedin.com/in/samuelmarks

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:47 PM, anthony shaw <an...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Libcloud is a Python library that abstracts away the differences among
> multiple cloud provider APIs. It allows users to manage cloud services
> (servers, storage, loadbalancers, DNS) offered by many different providers
> through a single, unified and easy to use API.
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2!
>
> Release highlights
>
> * Deprecated drivers that were no longer available such as Ninefold,
> IBM SCE more details
> * The Amazon EC2 driver has been changed to use region codes instead
> of separate drivers for each region
> * Introduce new list_regions class method on the base driver class
> * Support for Dimension Data backup
> * Added NSOne, LuaDNS, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET DNS drivers
> * Added Aliyun compute, load balancer and storage drivers
> * Added Outscale storage driver
>
> Full change log can be found at
> https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/v1.0.0-rc2/CHANGES.rst
>
> Download
>
> Libcloud 1.0.0-rc2 can be downloaded from
> http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html
> or installed using pip:
>
> pip install apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
>
> Upgrading
>
> If you have installed Libcloud using pip you can also use it to upgrade it:
>
> pip install --upgrade apache-libcloud==1.0.0-rc2
>
> Upgrade notes
>
> A page which describes backward incompatible or semi-incompatible
> changes and how to preserve the old behavior when this is possible
> can be found at http://libcloud.apache.org/upgrade-notes.html.
>
> Documentation
>
> API documentation can be found at
> http://libcloud.apache.org/apidocs/latest/.
>
> We also have a new Sphinx documentation which can be found at
> https://libcloud.apache.org/docs/.
>
> Bugs / Issues
>
> If you find any bug or issue, please report it on our issue tracker
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD>.
> Don't forget to attach an example and / or test which reproduces your
> problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed and made this release possible! Full
> list of
> people who contributed to this release can be found in the CHANGES file
> https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/v1.0.0-rc2/CHANGES.rst.
>
> We would like to thank the following community members for their
> contribution to this release:
>
> Jeff Dunham
> Max Illfelder
> Ken Dreyer
> Sam Song
> Oltjano Terpollari
> Javier M. Mellid
>