Portable Service Management Deployment over Cloud Platforms to Support Production Workloads

With the emergence of public cloud platforms from all the major vendors, adapting cloud platforms to deploy and manage production workloads will become a key requirement for enterprises looking to leverage cloud for optimizing IT budgets. Production workloads require support for critical service management processes. Managed services cloud environments support associated service management practices with relevant tools and processes. Majority of the cloud platforms do not provide these services as part of the offering and the customers are expected to overlay necessary processes and tools required for managing these environments. In this paper, we discuss an approach based on TOSCA to model service management layer deployment and orchestration that is portable across cloud platforms that support TOSCA standards. We also present a sample modeling for deploying monitoring process for provisioned servers leveraging IBM Tivoli technology components.