Cloud Application Portability with TOSCA, Chef and Openstack

Author

Katsaros, G. ; Menzel, Michael ; Lenk, Alexander ; Rake-Revelant, Jannis ; Skipp, Ryan ; Eberhardt, Jacob

Author_Institution

FZI Forschungszentrum Inf., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

11-14 March 2014

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

302

Abstract

As the sector of SaaS is being evolved, the need of portability and effective orchestration of Cloud-enabled applications over virtualised infrastructures is more apparent. In this paper we present a proof of concept (PoC) project together with industry partners which deals with the management of portable Cloud applications. Experimentation with a multi-tier Cloud application use case gives insights into the capabilities of the TOSCA specification (version 1). To realize support for a Cloud environment based on OpenStack and Opscode Chef, an environment that allows the execution and management of TOSCA service topologies has been developed. For the evaluation of the implemented system, we orchestrate the un-/deployment of the multi-tier Cloud application use case and in the end we discuss the results and experiences of this exercise.

Keywords

Web services; cloud computing; software portability; virtualisation; Openstack; Opscode Chef; PoC project; SaaS sector; TOSCA service topologies; TOSCA specification; cloud application portability; cloud environment; cloud-enabled applications; industry partners; multitier cloud application; portable cloud applications; proof-of-concept implementation; virtualised infrastructures; Cloud computing; Electronic mail; Servers; Standards; Topology; Virtual machining; Chef; Cloud applications; Openstack; TOSCA; service orchestration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IC2E.2014.27

Filename

6903486