The Apache Stratos community is pleased to announce the availability of Apache Stratos 4.1.0.
Apache Stratos is a PaaS framework that is designed to address the various challenges currently faced in the Cloud PaaS space. For developers, Stratos provides a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable applications. IT providers benefit from high utilization rates, automated resource management, and platform-wide insight including monitoring and billing. You can read more about Stratos and its features at website: http://stratos.apache.org/ Changes ------------ The most notable changes in this release are: * Composite application model to create complex cloud applications * Application bursting * Mock IaaS for testing Stratos in a development environment * A lightweight cartridge agent written in Python * Plug-gable extension points for Python cartridge agent * Docker support for Stratos via Kubernetes * Google Cloud Engine support for Stratos * New Stratos UI theme * Communication model for cartridges using meta-data service * MQTT as the default message broker communication protocol Release notes can be found at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12328713&styleName=Html&projectId=12314521&Create=Create&atl_token=A5KQ-2QAV-T4JA-FDED%7C7431424f28fb609bb9ecbfc90839326a3a77f48c%7Clout Try downloading it from: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/stratos Setup your own cloud using the getting started guide: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/STRATOS/4.1.0+Quick+Installation+Guide The binary distribution's samples directory has bunch of different examples for various cloud infrastructure providers (EC2, OpenStack, Kubernetes etc.) that you can use to setup a cloud. Try it out and let us know what you think! We would like to thank all the contributors who made this release possible. Thanks, The Apache Stratos team
