Hi Sally, Incoming.... :
Andrija Panic, who recently joined ShapeBlue as a Cloud Architect, said: "After many years of managing a production CloudStack deployments, I consider CloudMonkey a core tool in anyone's CloudStack toolkit, and now also being available for Windows makes me really happy. I can certainly see a major speed improvements, but also having backward compatibility is what is so great with this new release." [email protected] www.shapeblue.com Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue -----Original Message----- From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> Sent: 19 March 2019 13:33 To: Giles Sirett <[email protected]>; Apache CloudStack Marketing <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review request Thanks, Giles. This is great. Ideally we'll have a quote from at least one other user... :-D I can ask someone from the CloudStack community if they can help. Not sure of their availability due to time zones, but I'll keep you posted. Warm regards, Sally - - - Vice President Marketing & Publicity Vice President Sponsor Relations The Apache Software Foundation Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 05:23, Giles Sirett wrote: > Guys, if you want/need a quote: > > > Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue commented "Cloudmonkey is a effective > tool for the operators of Cloudstack environments and it becomes > essential in large-scale Cloudstack deployments. Its great to see this > new version of cloudmonkey: having a CLI that can run on Windows > desktops as well as linux and Mac is important as we see more enterise > adoption of Apache Cloudstack" > > > > Kind regards > Giles > > [email protected] > www.shapeblue.com > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]> > Sent: 19 March 2019 07:37 > To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Apache > CloudStack Marketing <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > request > > Hi Sally, > > > Thanks for reviews, please proceed with the changes you've advised. > > While I've requested people already for their quotes, we don't have > any so far. I've reached out to PMCs again today, so please include > any quotes if they do arrive on this thread (on marketing@ ML). > > > I think let's lock on the date, 20th March 2019. After you can confirm > the announcement, I'll send the email to various lists and put the > same on cloudstack asf blog. > > > Regards, > > Rohit Yadav > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > ________________________________ > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:46:17 AM > To: Rohit Yadav; [email protected]; Apache CloudStack > Marketing; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > request > > Hello again, Rohit --following up on this: > > - we need a headline and subhead; how about > > The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache(r) CloudMonkey(r) v6.0 > > Popular Open Source Command Line Interface Tool Simplifies Apache > CloudStack Configuration and Management > > > - we'll need to update the ASF boilerplate. I can do that on my end. > > If we're aiming to announce on 20 March, we'll need to lock in the > copy no later than 6PM ET (UTC -5) on Tuesday 19 March. Do you have > additional testimonials to include? > > Are there any outstanding issues that I can help with? > > Kind thanks, > Sally > > - - - > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > Vice President Sponsor Relations > The Apache Software Foundation > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > > > [email protected] > www.shapeblue.com > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 04:56, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > All, > > > Kindly review the release announcement for CloudMonkey v6.0.0, and > also share your quotes/comments that we can use in the release wrt > cloudmonkey v6.0: > > > ### START ### > > > > <Date: 20 March 2019> - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 > Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache(r) > CloudStack(r) CloudMonkey v6.0, the latest version of the turnkey > enterprise Cloud orchestration platform's command line interface tool. > > Apache CloudStack is the proven, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy > IaaS platform used for rapidly creating private, public, and hybrid > Cloud environments. Thousands of large-scale public Cloud providers > and enterprise organizations use Apache CloudStack to enable billions > of dollars worth of business transactions annually across their clouds. > Apache CloudMonkey v6.0.0 is the latest major release since the > previous major 5.x release in September 2013. CloudMonkey v6.0.0 is a > rewrite of the original tool in Go programming language, and can be > used both as an interactive shell and as a command line tool that > simplifies CloudStack configuration and management. > > Some of the new features and major changes include: > > > * Rewrite in Go, ships as single binary for Linux, Mac, and Windows > * Drop-in replacement for legacy Python-based cloudmonkey > * About 5-20x faster than legacy Python-based cloudmonkey > * Interactive UX for parameter and arg completion and selection > * JSON is the default output format > * New column based output > * Enable debug mode using set debug true option, file-based logging > removed > * Per server profile based API cache > * New syntax arg=@/path/to/file to pass the content of file as API > argument value similar to curl > * Improve help docs using -h argument > * Removed: XML output, coloured output, several set options > > "This release is the work of over one year of effort and driven by the > people operating CloudStack clouds," said Rohit Yadav, Apache > CloudStack CloudMonkey v6.0 author, and release manager. "I would like > to thank the contributors across all of these organizations for > supporting this release, which reflects both the user-driven nature of > our community and the Apache CloudStack project's commitment to > continue to be the most stable, easily deployable, scalable Open > Source platform for IaaS. Along with ease of installation, usage and > availability of cross-platform dependency-free builds including > Windows builds, v6.0 brings many changes and optimizations such as > more interactive shell for parameter completion, faster API requests > processing, server profile specific API caching, improved API help > docs and a new syntax to pass content of files as API parameter argument." > The background and story of v6.0 effort was recently blogged here: > https://www.shapeblue.com/whats-coming-in-the-new-cloudmonkey-6-0/ > > <stick more quotes from community members, kindly share your > comments!> > > > Downloads and Documentation > > The official source code for CloudMonkey v6.0.0 can be downloaded from > http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. The community-maintained > builds are available at the project's Github release page at > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/releases > > CloudMonkey's usage is documented at > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/wiki > > Availability and Oversight > > Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0 > and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the > project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's > day-to-day operations, including community development and product > releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved > with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and > https://twitter.com/CloudStack > > About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) > > Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than > 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the > world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's > meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 680 > individual Members and 6,500 Committers across six continents > successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade > software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of > software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the > community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring > initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, > trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable > organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors > including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Baidu, Bloomberg, > Budget Direct, Capital One, Cash Store, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, > Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, iSIGMA, ODPi, > LeaseWeb, Microsoft, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red > Hat, Target, Union Investment, and Yahoo. For more information, visit > http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF > > (c) The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "CloudStack", "Apache > CloudStack", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks > of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other > countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their > respective owners. > > > > > ### END ### > > > > Regards, > > Rohit Yadav > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > > [email protected] > www.shapeblue.com > @shapeblue > > > > >
