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This month marks Linode’s eighteenth year as a company. Much has changed since the day we started. We’ve seen amazing new technologies emerge, as well as huge growth and adoption of the Internet and of our company along with it. We’ve witnessed cloud computing become the de facto way business gets done. And, from the very earliest days, Linode has played at least some role in making it possible.

Over the last year, people and businesses around the world have relied on the cloud and Linode to adapt to a world that looks nothing like the one they’ve known. Whether it was for hosting personal projects, keeping their business running, or staying connected to friends and family, the cloud made their lives a little easier.

We accomplished much over the past year that makes me proud of the team serving you and our industry:

• We committed $100,000 a year to helping socially-conscious, not-for-profit organizations that promote positive social change in the world.
• We released Custom Images to general availability, making it easier for customers to create, store, and deploy one image across machines.
• We added two free security solutions in Cloud Firewall and Private VLANs to help all customers control traffic to and/or between their Linodes.
• We expanded support for developer tools, introducing official Linode Terraform Provider and Linode Ansible modules.
• We made it easier to authenticate into Linode with support for Google and GitHub.
• Our Support team won five Stevie Awards, including the coveted People’s Choice award.

Those accomplishments are a direct result of your feedback — valuable input that helps us deliver new products and features and a better cloud experience. We’re also excited for what we have coming up:

• Expanding payment options to support Google Pay
• Releasing autoscaling control plane resources in Linode Kubernetes Engine
• Providing support for Cloud Init and a Metadata Service
• Introducing our Bare Metal beta offering
• Upgrading all Block Storage clusters from spinning drives to NVMe
• Incorporating account management tools designed for Linode partners and providers
• Leveling up our network and fleet to ensure all products are available globally in every data center

过去一年取得的成就：

1.承诺每年提供10万美元，帮助有社会意识的非营利组织促进世界积极的社会变革；

2.发布了通用的自定义映像，使客户更容易在多台计算机上创建、存储和部署一个映像；

3.在云防火墙和私有vlan中添加了两个免费的安全解决方案，以帮助所有客户控制到其Linodes和/或其Linodes之间的流量；

4.扩展了对开发人员工具的支持，引入了正式的Linode Terraform提供者和Linode Ansible模块；

5.通过对Google和GitHub的支持，我们使Linode的身份验证更加容易；

6.支持团队获得了五项Stevie奖，包括”People’s Choice award”。

未来将做这些事情：

1.扩展支付选项以支持谷歌支付；

2.Linode-Kubernetes引擎中自动缩放控制平面资源的释放；

3.提供对Cloud Init和元数据服务的支持；

4.增加Bare Metal beta产品；

5.将所有块存储群集从旋转驱动器升级到NVMe；

6.合并为Linode合作伙伴和提供商设计的帐户管理工具；

7.升级网络，确保所有产品在全球每个数据中心的可用性。