CubeOS - Release Note

Abstract

Bigstack CubeOS 2.3.0 is a major release for CubeOS cloud operating system. This release provides the following updates to Bigstack CubeOS version 2.2.0:

New functionality

• Cloud Computing
  • Deployment: extension pack for services and base images
  • App Exchange: AppFramework for Cube Application management
• Storage
  • CLI options to allow add/remove ssdpool in specified group
  • NFS export: nfs-ganesha on Ceph
• Hybrid Cloud Management (See Cube_HybridCloud_Portal for details)
  • Cube Hybrid Cloud Portal User Interface
    • Instance management
    • Kubernetes management
    • Image management: base and custom images
    • Volume management: attach/detach instance volumes
    • Share management: NFS and CIFS shares
    • Network management
    • Floating IP management and reservation
    • Firewall management
    • Load Balancer management
  • Cube Hybrid Portal Management Interface
    • Multi-tenant (or project) management
    • Instance management: instance flavors and base images
    • Volume management: volume types and size
    • Quota management by tenants/projects
• VDI Integration (See Cube_VDI_Driver for details)
  • Cube VDI driver for Virtual Desktops capabilities
• Operation and Management
  • service validation on DNS and Time services
  • login banner and node/cluster information in Cube local console
  • image import and instance export functions on LMI
  • cluster level fixpack installation Enhancements
• Upgraded Rancher to 2.6.5
• Replaced conventional device names with UUID boot
• Refined Email format for notifications
• Enhanced virtual machine provisioning
• Enhanced retention policies for InfluxDB
• Security Updates
  • CVE-2021-44228 Log4Shell - Remote Code Execution - log4j
  • CVE-2021-45046 - Mitigated CubeOS components subject to CVE-2021-44228 Log4Shell - Remote Code Execution Deprecated features
• HybridCloud replacement
  • Removed HybridCloud (ManageIQ), replaced by Cube HybridCloud Portal
• Removed API Management (Tyk) Fixed defects
• Bug Fixes since Cube 2.2.0, including fixpacks and hotfixes. Announcements The Bigstack CubeOS cloud operating system version 2.3.0 is generally available in September, 2022. Compatibilities The following Cube related products are currently supported by Cube 2.3 and can only be run against Cube 2.3 or above.
• Cube HybridCloud Portal 1.3.10
  • Prerequisites: Cube 2.3 with AppFramework deployed
• Cube VDI Driver and integration
  • Prerequisites: Cube 2.3 and Cube VDI essentials

Operating Software

• CentOS 8 Stream

OpenStack Version

• Wallaby Release (April 2021 / OpenStack 23rd release)

OpenStack Services

Web Frontend

• Horizon (Dashboard)

Share Services

• Keystone (Identity)
• Glance (Image)
• Barbican (Key Store)

Compute

• Nova (Virtual Machine)
• Ironic (Bare-metal)

Networking

• Neutron (SDN/NFV, VPN as a Service)
• Octavia (Load Balance as a Service)
• Designate (DNS as a Service)

Storage

• Cinder (Block Storage)
• Manila (File Storage)
• Swift (Object Storage)

Orchestration

• Heat (Orchestration)
• Senlin (Auto-scaling)

Monitoring

• Monasca (Telemetry)

High Availability

• Masakari (Instance HA)

Resource Optimaztion

• Watcher (Infrastructure Optimization)

Rancher

• v2.6.5

Ceph

• v16 (Pacific Release)

Software-Defined-Network

• OVS/OVN (v2.12)

Cube Infrascope

• ELK
  • Elasticsearch (v7.10)
  • Logstash (v7.12)
  • Kibana (v7.10)
  • Filebeat (v7.13)
  • Auditbeat (v7.13)
• TIGK
  • Telegraf (v1.17)
  • Influxdb (v1.8.6)
  • Kapacitor (v1.5.7)
  • Grafana (v7.5.9)
• Data Pipeline
  • Zookeeper (v2.13)
  • Kafka (v2.7)

Identity

• Keycloak (v17.0.1-legacy)