Monday, February 11, 2013

WSO2 Stratos-2.0.0 Beta-1 Released

WSO2 Stratos-2.0.0 Beta-1 is Released - 11th February 2013!

WSO2 Stratos2 team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2 Stratos 2.0.0 Beta-1 version.

WSO2 Stratos 2.0.0 Beta-1 is now available for download at [1] and the documentation is available at [2]. Stratos 2.0.0 Beta-1 installed, Oracle VirtualBox image, is downloadable at [3].
WSO2 Application Server Cartridge (LXC based), which is required at the run-time of the Stratos 2.0.0 Beta-1 VirtualBox image, is downloadable at [4].

WSO2 Stratos 2.0.0 is the next major version of WSO2 Stratos 1.x, the most complete, enterprise-grade, open PaaS, with support for more core services than any other available PaaS today.

Key Features
  • Artifact Distribution Coordinator (ADC) with Git and Git-hub integration support
  • Plug-able architecture support for adding new cartridges
  • PHP and MySQL and WSO2 carbon cartridges(ESB, AS etc) support
  • Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with Cartridge support
  • Autoscaling into different IaaSes (EC2, Openstack)
  • S2 Cloud Controller
  • Multiple IaaS support (EC2, Openstack) through jclouds API's
  • Git based deployment synchronizer
  • Interactive CLI for tenants to manage subscriptions
  • UI for tenants to manage subscriptions
  • Custom domain mapping support
  • Script based Multi-node Installer
  • Local deployment setup
  • Examples
  • Documentation(Stratos2 Installation Guide, User Guide, Architecture Guide, Cartridge Development Guide and Openstack Installation Guide) 
  • Demo Ready Oracle VirtualBox image

You can report issues at [5] and [6].

Road to Stratos 2.0.0 Beta-1 (from Alpha)

Improvements

  • [SPI-16] - [Cloud Controller] Persist node details to registry
  • [SPI-41] - Cli list command results are not aligned properly.
  • [SPI-47] - ELB should pick the configuration via topology sync
  • [SPI-73] - Apply manager GUI improvements suggestions on feedback
  • [SPI-77] - Improve catching exceptions in ADC service side and Improve all cli error messages to inform the user about real error
  • [SPI-81] - Keep the maximum value of instances per cluster in back end configuration for Beta
  • [SPI-100] - Subscribe fails on concurrent requests

Bug Fixes

  • [SPI-17] - 'Alias' is already taken message isn't propagated and shown by the CLI client
  • [SPI-24] - When scaling down, instances are terminated below minimum number of instances
  • [SPI-25] - unsubscribe operation, when autoscaling option is enabled, doesnt remove the member from ELB
  • [SPI-26] - When Cloud controller is restarted topology info gets reset
  • [SPI-28] - Can't access lb url after subscribed by provided url
  • [SPI-30] - Missing Keypair Name in User Guide
  • [SPI-31] - CLI client should give a more appropriate error when user doesn't add required environment variables
  • [SPI-35] - Management Console in Manager node is not functioning properly
  • [SPI-36] - "virtual host only interface" its define as "vboxnet4"
  • [SPI-37] - INFO logs need to be replaced by DEBUG logs
  • [SPI-39] - Command line tool show wrong help when an action with mandatory arguments is called without the mandotory arguments
  • [SPI-40] - After subscribing to a cartridge GUI it goes to an error page
  • [SPI-42] - Domain mapping entry in Registry is not removed when the tenant unsubscribed to that cartridge.
  • [SPI-44] - Topology Builder thread spinning issue
  • [SPI-45] - Error in setup-demo script (w.r.t. keyPair property of a cartridge).
  • [SPI-46] - Incorrect log in hosting-mgt's repo notification service when there's only 1 active IP
  • [SPI-52] - Cloud controller path description given in setup-demo.sh is not correct
  • [SPI-61] - Info command should display repository url of the cartridge as well
  • [SPI-62] - List is not showing correct instance details in latest EC2 image
  • [SPI-66] - Include jars required to agent in default
  • [SPI-67] - Cartridge list command doesn't contain "host name" and "repo url" variables. They are null.
  • [SPI-78] - Changes to be done in carbon image setup file
  • [SPI-79] - When a non-super tenant is logged-in with validation for cli tool, back-end log is wrong. It say tenant domain carbon.super
  • [SPI-88] - "listCartridgeInfo" operation of ApplicationManagementService should throw an exception when the alias provided is not a registered one.
  • [SPI-89] - [Minor] Space is missing in an info log - authenticateValidation operation of ApplicationManagementService
  • [SPI-92] - "addDomainMapping" operation of ApplicationManagementService should throw an exception when the mapped domain is an already taken one.
  • [SPI-96] - Intermittent issue when connecting DB cartridge to php cartridge: Git repo creating error
  • [SPI-97] - Subscribing with a previously subscribed (and unsubscribed) alias wont spawn instances by ELB/ CC.
  • [SPI-108] - Application Server cartridge support in S2

Tasks

  • [SPI-48] - Remove the deprecated cartridge definition as.xml from the demo setup
  • [SPI-49] - Enable autoscaling by default in the EC2 image
  • [SPI-50] - Add mb_server_url entry to loadbalancer.conf of ELB in the set up
  • [SPI-63] - Test autoscaling in an EC2 environment
  • [SPI-70] - Committing the Git Based Depsync Message to Carbon Core
  • [SPI-86] - Make unncessary INFO logs of ApplicationManagementService to DEBUG

[5] Issue Tracker: https://wso2.org/jira/browse/SPI
[6] Openstack IaaS Issue Tracker : https://wso2.org/jira/browse/OZONE


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