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CloudStack-UI 1.0.6 is released on July, 25, 2017. The release adds new functions and fixes several bugs. It also includes deep refactoring of VM creation and display component. This release notes document covers main improvements delivered with the release.
Developers have spent more than a week refactoring the old code which was written without proper design on early project phase. Right now this component has been reimplemented from scratch. It helped to introduce new VM filtering and grouping interface. Also, the refactoring was vital because the team is planning to implement additional display mode for all items. Currently the UI supports "cards" view which is great when user has just several VMs, but for a user with lots of VMs list view similar to native ACS interface might be preferable. So in the next releases list view will be introduced for VMs and other objects.
Reorganized VM details tabs. Previously tabs were "keyword" labeled, in this release they were changed to icons. It helps to implement more tabs with a compact and visually self-descriptive labels.
NIC and SG details and configuration are moved to a separate tab which will help implementing additional network operations for advanced CS zones.
Resource usage bar allows switching between "used" and "free" presentations to help users understanding capabilities in a better way.
The release introduces VM tags and Template tags tabs. Unlike the native ACS interface which doesn't use tags, CloudStack-UI uses tags very extensively to provide additional UX capabilities. In the future versions tags will interact with UI plugins to provide additional capabilities like clientless SSH access.
Since Angular Material 2 is mature now, includes better and more beautiful components we decided switching from MDL to Material2 which will be completed in several iterations.
The release can be found at GitHub releases (https://github.com/bwsw/cloudstack-ui/releases/tag/1.0.6)
Prepared Docker image is available at Dockerhub (https://hub.docker.com/r/bwsw/cloudstack-ui/).
You can pull it with:
# docker pull bwsw/cloudstack-ui:1.0.6The project changelog is here: https://github.com/bwsw/cloudstack-ui/wiki/Changelog
Deployment guide and project info can be found at GitHub pages: https://bwsw.github.io/cloudstack-ui/
Version 1.0.7 is planned to be released on August, 7th, 2017. The release is expected to include new functionality as follows:
- Templates to VM tags copy support (client-side);
- Web-SSH plugin, which enables SSH connection facility to VMs without desktop client installed;
- Pulse plugin, which enables displaying of CPU/RAM/IO/NET metrics per VM.
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