Release Notes for Cloudjiffy 5.7

In this document, I will find all of the new features, enhancements and visible changes included to the Cloudjiffy PaaS 5.7 release

1.  Dashboard Search-

Starting with the platform 5.7 release, Cloudjiffy PaaS provides built-in search functionality for the developer’s dashboard. The core functionality is straightforward - access the Search form at the top-right corner (or use the Ctrl+F/Cmd+F shortcut), type a search term(s) and hit Enter. For example, I can locate a container by its IP/ID; or search for the particular deployed project/environment; or deploy applications from Cloudjiffy Marketplace.


Herewith, the implemented search engine is highly customizable, allowing me to get the most accurate results for the requests. Among the main options:

• special characters for search expression (e.g. “-” prefix to exclude a term or “*” wildcard)
• search source (either whole account or the current environment group)

• categories filter to search among the selected entities (e.g. exclude the Marketplace packages or look for IPs only)

We highly recommend reading the help hint within the search form (circled in the image above) for a detailed overview.

2. Extended Marketplace Search -

Cloudjiffy Marketplace is an excellent source of the numerous managed solutions, which can be installed in one click on the platform. In order to help with locating the required package, the search option was improved for the appropriate frame and within the dashboard search. For now, the provided phrase is looked for in the package description as well as in its name.

Also, the position of the search box was adjusted, allowing to utilize space within the Marketplace frame with higher efficiency.

3. NFSv4 support

The Network File System (NFS) is a widely used protocol for data sharing, as it allows accessing files over a network in the same way as on a local machine. Herewith, Cloudjiffy PaaS provides out-of-the-box support for the functionality for all of the containers (NFSv3), allowing to easily share data between instances through the mount points.

In the present 5.7 platform release, the Shared Storage Container was updated to fully support the latest (fourth) version of the NFS protocol, allowing to use it as NFSv4 server. For now, new exports from the shared storage are configured over NFSv4 by default, while existing ones should be re-created to get the benefits of the latest version - improved performance (especially for a large number of files), stronger security, support of the FUSE directories export, and more.

The ESTABLISHED and RELATED connections are accepted via container firewall on all of the Cloudjiffy nodes by default. In the present 5.7 platform release, the appropriate rules (for both IPv4 and IPv6) were moved to the top of the iptables list. Such adjustment speeds up access over the already established connections (by preventing the traffic flow through a whole list of rules).