Hello everybody,

Two days left for beta and new features are already here!

As you may have already noticed, new things have popped up on your ~okeanos-global Web UI. And new things are under the hood too. Let's take a quick tour:

1. Active CPUs and RAM

Starting today, we introduce a new, more sophisticated tracking mechanism for your CPUs and RAM that will allow you to create even more machines. How does it work?

We now track only your active CPUs and RAM. This results in CPU and RAM usage only when your machine is running. If you shutdown your machine, CPUs and RAM get automatically freed and you will see their usage dropping to zero. This way, with the same CPU and RAM limits, you can create more machines and start only the ones you need each time.

2. CPU and RAM resizing

A lot of our users have been asking whether they can resize an existing machine with regard to its CPU and RAM. Well now you can!

A new action button called 'Resize' has appeared along with the other action buttons available for your machines. Just click it and select your new CPU and RAM flavor. That simple.

Please note that you can resize a machine only if it is shutdown.

3. Public IPs

Next to your 'machines' and 'networks' two new tabs just appeared. The first one reads 'public IPs'. Until now, every machine that you created got connected to the public network (Internet) and was automatically assigned a public IPv4 by the ~okeanos infrastructure. Although this was sufficient for most of you, our advanced users asked for even greater flexibility. So, we introduce Public IPs for everybody:

Public IPs are a new ~okeanos-global resource and you own them.

This means that now you have the power to decide which IPv4 goes to which one of your machines. You can create new IPs, destroy them, attach them and detach them to/from machines, whenever you wish. Since Public IPs are your new resource, you are able to track their usage under your Dashboard -> Usage tab, as happens with all your other resources. Finally, you now have the choice to create machines without IPv4 connectivity at all and connect them only to Private Networks.

4. SSH keys tab

The second tab next to 'public IPs' has to do with SSH key management as you already know it. There is no new functionality here; we just moved everything in a dedicated tab and created new icons for improved uniformity and usability.

5. Hotplugging

A major change in ~okeanos-global internals now allows you to connect/disconnect machines to/from networks and attach/detach public IPs on-the-fly, without the need for a machine reboot, as happened until now. All changes will take effect instantly with new NICs appearing automagically inside your machines after a successful action. Connect and you're on!

Finally, if you are an ~okeanos-global advanced user that depends on IPv6, note that you may experience some intermittent connectivity issues until tomorrow night, since we are also preparing some IPv6 related features that will be announced and introduced alongside ~okeanos-global beta.

Thank you all for your overwhelming interest,
the ~okeanos-global team