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October 17, 2024 Tooling Documentation Update

oapi-cli Documentation

  • New feature

  • Documentation site API / tools

oapi-cli is now documented on this website. oapi-cli is the successor of OSC CLI, providing expanded features and improved user experience. For example: better handling of error responses, Bash autocompletion, and a variable system.

This update includes:

Correlation Between OUTSCALE API and Terraform

  • Improvement

  • Documentation site API / tools

The OUTSCALE API documentation now also includes tabs for the HCL language, which is used by the OUTSCALE Terraform provider. These tabs contain links to the pages of the corresponding Terraform resources or data sources.

This way, if you are a Terraform user, you can better identify the correlations between OUTSCALE API and OUTSCALE Terraform provider.

October 16, 2024 Improved Object Storage Section

  • Improvement

  • Object storage

The introductory About section for OOS has been enhanced. To provide a clearer understanding of how the service works, a thorough overhaul of the section has been conducted. This update includes added context, illustrations, and even advice on how to best interact with and make the most of OOS.

October 11, 2024 New Subregion

  • New feature

  • Infrastructure

A new SecNumCloud Subregion named cloudgouv-eu-west-1c is now available. For more information, see About Regions and Subregions.

October 10, 2024 Nuage public (UGAP) Market

  • New feature

  • Marketplace

3DS OUTSCALE can now define organizations as belonging to the Nuage public market of the Union des groupements d’achats publics (UGAP). Seller partner organizations can create subscription offers for OUTSCALE machine image (OMI) products, and buyer organizations can subscribe to such offers. For more information, see UGAP’s official website (French only), Creating a Nuage public Offer (UGAP), and Subscribing To a Nuage public Offer (UGAP).

October 3, 2024 Subscribing To Microsoft Windows License Offers

Buyer

  • New feature

  • Marketplace

You can now subscribe to Microsoft Windows license offers. For more information, see Estimating the Cost of a Product and Subscribing To an OMI Product > Microsoft Windows License.

September 18, 2024 Cockpit 2.19.10

The following features are now available in Cockpit v2:

EIM Users

  • Improvement

  • Cockpit IAM

  • You can now update the name, email, and path of a user. For more information, see Modifying a User.

  • As a root user, you can now specify the email of a user at creation. For more information, see Creating a User.

  • The email associated with a user now appears in the EIM Users dashboard.

September 16, 2024 EIM Update in OUTSCALE API

New Method: ReadEntitiesLinkedToPolicy

  • New feature

  • IAM API / tools

You can now get information about all the entities linked to a specific managed policy with the OUTSCALE API method ReadEntitiesLinkedToPolicy. For more information, see Getting Information About Entities Linked to a Managed Policy.

Minor Improvements

  • Improvement

  • IAM API / tools

  • You can now assign an email address to an EIM user using the CreateUser and UpdateUser OUTSCALE API methods.

  • Pagination and filters are now available for the ReadUser OUTSCALE API method.

September 16, 2024 TINA OS Update

Appliance in a Net

  • New feature

  • Compute

For security reasons, or because of the capacity of your software solutions, you might want to delegate the control of network traffic to an appliance.

To do this, you can send all external network traffic to a VM running an appliance.

You can follow this tutorial to set up an appliance: Setting Up an Appliance in a Net.

Matching Behavior Between CreateNetPeering (OUTSCALE API) and CreateVpcPeeringConnection (FCU API)

  • Improvement

  • API / tools

The PeerOwnerId parameter of the CreateVpcPeeringConnection FCU method is now added to its corresponding OUTSCALE API CreateNetPeering method under the name AccepterOwnerId.

This integration is done in two steps:

  1. In this version, the AccepterOwnerId parameter is added as optional in the OUTSCALE API. It is included in this release to enable users and tools to integrate it as of now.

  2. In a future version, this parameter will be mandatory in the case of sharing a Net peering connection between two Nets belonging to two different users.

Consistency of the IsSourceDestChecked Parameter

  • Improvement

  • API / tools

In the OUTSCALE API, the value of the IsSourceDestChecked parameter in the primary Network Interface Card (NIC), with 0 as device index, is now consistent with the IsSourceDestChecked parameter of the VM.

This improvement is also applied in the Flexible Compute Unit (FCU) API with the sourceDestCheck parameter of the Flexible Network Interface (FNI) that is consistent with the sourceDestCheck parameter of the instance.

September 10, 2024 Cockpit 2.19.9

The following features are now available in Cockpit v2:

EIM Users

  • New feature

  • Cockpit IAM

  • You can now update the name and path of a user. For more information, see Modifying a User.

Improvements

  • Improvement

  • Cockpit IAM

  • The resource details view can now be displayed fullscreen.

  • Interface buttons, dialog boxes, and form fields have been modernized.

  • The total number of resources is now displayed on every dashboard, next to the documentation link, as follows: IconBadgeResource.

August 8, 2024 Improved Display of API Responses and Nested Elements

  • Improvement

  • Documentation site API / tools

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The layout of the API documentation has been improved:

  • Nested request parameters and nested response elements are now indicated by vertical lines and nodes, instead of indent symbols (») previously.

  • In the response part of each method, the response 200 elements are now directly listed, instead of only having a link to the response schema.

  • When there are more than one examples for a response, the first example is visible by default while the other examples are enclosed in expandable blocks.

Seller Partner

  • Improvement

  • Marketplace

The definition of recommended virtual machines (VMs) when creating an OUTSCALE machine image (OMI) product has been improved. For more information, see Creating and Publishing an OMI Product > Offer.

July 26, 2024 Pagination Tutorial

  • Improvement

  • Documentation site API / tools

The Tutorial: Paginating an API Request page has been updated to include the pagination method for OUTSCALE API calls pertaining to policies, users, and user groups.

July 23, 2024 OUTSCALE Marketplace Updates

Business Provider Contract

  • New feature

  • Marketplace

When creating an outsourced product, you must now read and accept the business provider contract in order to publish the product. For more information, see Creating and Publishing an Outsourced Product > Contractual terms.

Operating System Selection

  • Improvement

  • Marketplace

When creating an OUTSCALE machine image (OMI) product and specifying the Versions form, you must now select the operating system from a list and provide details on it. For more information, see Creating and Publishing an OMI Product > Versions.

July 11, 2024 Cockpit 2.18

The following features are now available in Cockpit v2:

EIM Groups

  • New feature

  • Cockpit IAM

Load Balancers Improvements

  • Improvement

  • Cockpit Network

Other Improvements

  • Improvement

  • Compute Network

Dashboards routing has been updated. You need to replace any previously bookmarked URLs.

  • You can now release an fGPU linked to a VM. For more information, see Releasing an fGPU linked to a VM.

  • You are now provided with an estimation of the VM cost type when creating a VM. For more information, see Creating VMs.

July 10, 2024 Estimating the Cost of a Product on Several VMs

Buyer

  • Improvement

  • Marketplace

You can now estimate the cost of using an OMI product on several virtual machines (VMs). For more information, see Estimating the Cost of a Product.

July 8, 2024 New Sync Feature in OOS Documentation

  • New feature

  • Documentation site Object storage

The OUTSCALE Object Storage (OOS) documentation now includes the sync command. For more information, see Synchronizing Objects to a Bucket.

July 1, 2024 License Agreements of BYOL and Free/Open Source OMIs

Seller Partner

  • Improvement

  • Marketplace

When creating an OMI product whose pricing mode is bring your own license (BYOL) or free/open source, you must now specify a link to the product’s license agreement in the Legal section. For more information, see Creating and Publishing an OMI Product > Legal.

Buyer

  • Improvement

  • Marketplace

When subscribing to an OMI product whose pricing mode is bring your own license (BYOL) or free/open source, you can now view the license agreement of the product in the My subscriptions page. For more information, see Subscribing To an OMI Product.

June 17, 2024 TINA OS Update

CPU Performances

  • Improvement

  • Compute

CPU performance has been improved across all our Regions.

The placement of vCores of new virtual machines has been optimized, through better support for NUMA (non-uniform memory access) zones in Intel processors.

Network Performances

  • Improvement

  • Network

The network performance has been improved across all our Regions.

For the newly created Nets, the network can now handle a larger number of packets per second, and bandwidth capacity has been increased.

Fixes and Minor Improvements

  • Improvement

  • API / tools

  • In the RouteTable methods of the OUTSCALE API, the GatewayId parameter can now return the local value.

  • In the OUTSCALE API, the creation of a Net peering between a Net you own and a Net that belongs to another account has been fixed.

  • You can no longer use outscale-elb-sg as the name of a security group. This name is reserved to OUTSCALE’s usage.

  • The performance of the FCU API DescribeInstances method has been improved. You can now get information from a larger number of VMs simultaneously.

June 17, 2024 New Release Notes Page

  • New feature Improvement Removal

  • API / tools Cockpit Billing IAM Marketplace Compute Network Documentation site Block storage Object storage

For better visibility, the release notes for all the products and services of the OUTSCALE Cloud are now presented on a new page.

On this new page, each entry is categorized with tags on the left column, and you can use the menu on the right to filter the entries by tags.

The release notes from before June 17 are still located in the older pages: