Great news in Chameleon-land!

I hope everybody is enjoying the nice weather and hopefully a more relaxed schedule for the summer! Read on to find out what we’ve been up to last month.

Great news in Chameleon-land!

Here are the most important features we added since the public release of our new hardware in mid-March:

To better serve the user community, we have completed a major update of the documentation for Chameleon. It's available at https://chameleoncloud.org/docs

We are pleased to announce immediate availability of the first installment of new hardware for phase 2 of Chameleon!

Did you ever find yourself spending half of your 7 day lease iterating on the environment configuration for your experiment and worried that the remaining 4 days are not enough to run it? If so read on: we are aware that configuring your experimental environment can be a bit of a journey and have packed the system with tools and features that will make it smoother.

One of Chameleon's newest features is metrics using Gnocchi. In this post, we will cover how to quickly get started with Gnocchi, including how to access collected metrics and customize which metrics are reported from your Chameleon instances.

If you are a distributed systems, networking or HPC researcher, you may be interested in Chameleon's Orchestration capabilities. Orchestration allows you to perform "one click" deployment of Complex Appliances - clusters of bare metal machines with user defined networking.

Now that you have successfully launched a Chameleon instance, you may want to take a snapshot of it. Snapshots are a great way of saving your work in progress, especially if you have done a lot of configuration to your bare metal instance and you need to preserve the work beyond your lease.

The New Year Chameleon is back -- along with a few new features to help you run your experiments in the New Year! 

Are you a first time Chameleon user? In this article, we're going to feature on-boarding videos from Chameleon's YouTube channel. It's a great way of learning how to sign up for an account, reserve hardware and launch and access your first Chameleon instance.