Please contact rac-admin@cybera.ca if you have any questions or would like further details. ## Sept 24, 2020 New Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 images are available New CentOS 7, 8, Ubuntu 18.04, and 20.04 GPU images with CUDA 11 preinstalled are now generally available ## Aug 31, 2020 New CentOS 8 and updated CentOS 7 standard images now available ## July 24, 2020 A new, encrypted at rest by default SSD volume type is now generally available Due to resource constraints, new users will NOT receive a floating IP quota. A new dashboard panel has been created to make requesting a floating IP more straight forward should IPv6 not work. ## June 2020 Keystone, Glance, and Heat have all been upgraded to OpenStack Queens. ## April 2020 A new GPU option is now available - the g3.* flavors allow users to launch a GPU instance using Titan RTX cards The Rapid Access Cloud due to security concerns now will automatically notify and disable any internet wide open rules to ports 42, 88, 135, 137, 138, 139, 389, 445, 1512, 3268, 3389, 5985, 5986, 6379, 9200, and 27017. ## July 2019 Nova, Neutron and Cinder have been upgraded to OpenStack Queens ## April 4, 2019 New Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and CentOS 7 images are now available for our GPU nodes with CUDA 10.1 preinstalled. New Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and CentOS 7 standard images now available ## July 4, 2017 New Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and CentOS 7 images are now available for our GPU nodes with CUDA preinstalled. ## May 21, 2017 OpenStack Neutron has been deployed in both regions of the Rapid Access Cloud. You can now create your own networks, subnets, and routers. In addition, early support for creating Firewalls and Load Balancers is available, but should not be considered fully functional yet. ## January 25, 2017 The Rapid Access Cloud now offers GPU nodes for GPU-based computing. You can read more about how to use the GPU nodes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1flvtij7HPBl63qraxQjtHg7i-GYlUCqnS0IsEtAbdH4/edit# ## January 12, 2017 OpenStack Swift, the Object Storage service, now uses encryption at rest. This means that all information stored in the Object Storage service will be encrypted on the underlying storage disks. ## November 9, 2016 OpenStack Designate (DNS as a Service) is now available. Designate allows you to host your own domains / DNS zones in the Rapid Access Cloud. In addition, all instances will now automatically have unique domain names which is useful to access instances instead of using an IP address. Instances that do not have a Floating IP are only resolvable by an IPv6/AAAA record. Instances that have a Floating IP are resolvable with both a IPv4/A and IPv6/AAAA record. ## October 31, 2016 We are now using a new set of storage servers for the Block Storage service. You will see these labled as "lvm" under the "Type" column, while previously created volumes will be labled as "glusterfs". There is no functional difference between the two, the new LVM volumes just reside on a new storage system. Please be aware that we will be turning off support for the original "glusterfs"-based volumes. Further communication has been sent to users about this. ## September 8, 2016 The Rapid Access Cloud now has a beta/labs region called Area 51. This region will now show in the normal region drop-down box. Instead, you can access it directly at https://a51.cloud.cybera.ca. Please be aware that this region will not be available all of the time. ## November 19, 2015 The dashboard has been upgraded to the OpenStack Kilo version. Included in the upgrade is the beta version of the Launch wizard. ## August 29, 2015 OpenStack Kilo was installed in the Calgary Region. Swift is now available in the Edmonton region. You can sync containers between the regions using Swift's container sync feature. ## August 21, 2015 OpenStack was upgraded to the Kilo release in the Edmonton region. ## May 15, 2015 Fedora 21 is now available as an image. ## May 14, 2015 Recently, a security vulnerability known as Venom[1] was made public. This vulnerability affects QEMU, a core component in the virtualization stack of most OpenStack clouds -- including the Rapid Access Cloud. At this time, there are no known ways to exploit this vulnerability, and we have not seen any malicious behaviour in Cybera’s cloud environment. Our team patched the Rapid Access Cloud as soon as the QEMU updates were made available. We have also taken measures to ensure that all virtual machines in the cloud are not vulnerable to future exploits of Venom. [1]: http://venom.crowdstrike.com/ ## April 24, 2015 Added a new flavor called "m1.micro". This flavor allows the creation of instances with 1gb of RAM and 1 CPU. ## April 2, 2015 Added a new panel to the dashboard: RAC Usage. This panel displays graphs of project and instance resource usage in the cloud. Raw date can also be downloaded in JSON and CSV format. ## February 20, 2015 Enabled users to run nova diagnostics. This command allows users to see statistics on their instance. * http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/instance_usage_statistics.html ## January 15, 2015 New base images available. Helper scripts have been added to Ubuntu and CentOS images that allow users to easily modify the images for additional functionality such as enabling security auto updates, installing OpenStack tools, and enabling local software updates. Documentation can be found in the motd message, the quickstart guide, and the CLI lab: * http://bit.ly/RAC_Quickstart * http://bit.ly/RAC_CLI_Lab