Changes for 2014.03

Dasein Cloud 2014.03 is currently in active development with a target release date sometime during March 2014.

New Clouds

• Google Compute Engine (and Drive storage)

Cloud Updates

• Added additional methods to allow support for AWS autoscaling
• Added support for AWS IAM instance profiles

General Changes

• Added the ability to discover what information is needed to connect to a cloud
• Added a completely new mechanism for connecting to clouds (the old mechanism is deprecated)
• Added support for namespaces and looking for unique names within a given namespace
• Added support for looking up and applying naming constraints for a given type of resource
• Altered DNS resolution to be on-demand to reduce unnecessary processing time
• Added support for tagging in subnets
• Added the concept of visible scope to certain resources (Used when resources don't fit in the standard region/data center model)
• Removed lots of obsolete 'abstract' modifier keywords

Compute Services

• Added launching multiple virtual machines in a single API call
• Added the ability to fetch friendly name naming constraints on virtual machines
• Built-in a method for validating host names
• All resource capability indicators have been moved out of the related classes into their own Capabilities classes
• Added support for provider role IDs and to set detailed monitoring
• Added methods to retrieve volume IDs attached to Virtual Machines
• Added method to request automatic provisioning of public IP address on launch of VM (for supporting clouds)

Network Services

• Added the concept of FirewallRuleCreateOptions
• Added a rule authorize method using FirewallRuleCreateOptions
• Added a default implementation of authorize using create options
• Added concept of firewall constraints showing how rules are constrained by a given firewall
• Added support for creating a firewall alongside a set of rules and constraints
• Added deeper support for creating and managing health checks in load balancers

Identity Services

• None

Platform Services

• Added support for data warehousing services like AWS Redshift

Converged Infrastructure Services

• None

Storage Services

• Adjusted signedObjectURL to use ProviderContext values rather than additional key