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Scalr 2.0 - Scale on more clouds and more platforms! - Completed

  • Scalarizer
    • Complete rewrite of the lightweight Scalr agent that sits on your instances and collects data
    • Makes it possible to add support for any server, on any platform (Ubuntu, Fedora support at first)
  • Scalr kernel
    • Abstraction layer between EC2 and Scalr
    • Makes it possible to add support for different infrastructure clouds
  • UI Improvements
    • Faster user interface

Scalr 2.0.1 - Stabilization - Completed

  • Feature freeze while we stabilize the new Scalr 2.0 codebase.

Scalr 2.1 - Multi-cloud scaling! - Completed

  • Multi-image Roles
    • Scale across multiple resource pools by mapping multiple images to a Role
    • Set policy and priorities on each Role for each resource pool
  • Eucalyptus support (version 1.6 and above)
  • Scaling based on custom metric
    • Define your own criteria for scaling, such as Daily Active Users, pageviews, or persistent connections to your application 

Scalr 2.1.1- Stabilization - Completed

  • Feature freeze while we stabilize the new Scalr 2.1 codebase. 

Scalr 2.2 - Scale on Rackspace Cloud! - Completed

  • Rackspace support
    • Scale on Rackspace Cloud, with Fanatical Support™
  • Nimbula support
    • Scale on Nimbula, the private cloud software built by the creators of EC2
  • Multiple regions for Eucalyptus
    • Install Eucalyptus in all your datacenters, and have Scalr manage distributed applications across them
  • Chef-based Role builder
    • Use the power of Chef to manage configuration on your instances
  • Major UI overhaul
    • Servers, Roles and a few other objects can be managed without page reload
    • Pretty URLs like /servers/view or /server/%SERVERID%/edit
    • Almost all code responsible for UI on the server side is being rewritten
  • Safe shutdown
    • Trigger a script prior to shutdown to authorize Scalr to terminate the server
  • HTTPS support for ELB
  • Ability to delete roles 

Scalr 2.2.1 - Stabilization - Completed

  • Feature freeze while we stabilize the new Scalr 2.1 codebase. 

Scalr 2.2.2 - Deployments management  - Completed

  • Command-line tools to deploy applications, and more 

Scalr 2.3 - Completed

  • Scalable PostgreSQL database
  • SSH keys manager
    • Key management can get messy. Enter Keychain!

Scalr 2.4 - Completed

  • Accounts and Environments
    • Add team access to your Scalr account, with read/write permissions to your infrastructure
    • Add multiple Environments to your Scalr account, to use dedicated keys for your development and production environments, or to manage your client
  • More Clouds support
    • Cloud.com's CloudStack joins the ranks of supported IaaS
  • NoSQL databases
  • Support for RabbitMQ
    • World-class message queue
  • Support for CloudFoundry
    • VMware's platform as a service 

Scalr 2.5 - Completed

  • NoSQL databases
  • Chef integration for the Farm Builder
    • Pull recipes from Chef-server to build and manage your infrastructure
  • Server farm Run Rates
    • See how much your server farms cost you each hour, how much it has cost this month, and projected total cost this month.
       

Scalr 3.0 - Completed

Scalr 3.5 - Completed

  • RAID over EBS
    • EBS is a performance bottleneck on EC2. Scale further with raid arrays of EBS volumes!
  • "Mission Control" Dashboard
    • Load Graphs - choose a server farm, and add its load graph as a widget
    • Resource usage breakdown - see how many instances you have running, ebs volumes, elastic ips, etc.

Scalr 4.0 - Completed

  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Private clouds support
    • CloudStack 2.2.15 and 3.0.5
  • Public clouds support
    • IDCF (Japan)
  • Cost optimization
    • Integration with Cloudyn
  • Orchestration engine
    • Custom triggers & events

Scalr 4.1 - Completed

  • Private clouds support
    • OpenStack (Folsom, Grizzly)
  • Public clouds support
    • Enter (Italy)
  • Orchestration engine
    • Custom targets / Extended execution scopes
    • Global variables / Extended variable library

Scalr 4.5 - Planned for Q2. 2013

  • Monitoring and alerting
    • Disk space, CPU utilization, memory and more
  • Public & private clouds support
    • Google Compute Engine
    • Rackspace Next-Generation
    • OpenStack
  • Fully managed, automated, scalable services
    • Tomcat
    • Nginx (v2)
    • Apache (v2)
  • Network security
    • Amazon VPC support
  • Orchestration engine
    • Alerting
    • Enhanced Chef integration
  • Collaboration
    • Audit logs
    • Revision histories

Coming 2013

Suggestions, considerations, and work in progress here.

  • Fully managed, automated, scalable services
    • HAProxy
    • MySQL Cluster (w/ Percona)
  • Orchestration engine
    • Custom workflows
  • DNS
    • Private DNS support
    • Third party vendor integration
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