Cloud service portability opportunities
Date Issued
2013
Author(s)
Kjiroski, Kiril
Abstract
Several open research questions motivated us to conduct this
research: How to wisely choose a cloud host for services and how to
change the cloud provider in an easy manner. Service portability in the
cloud is the ability to move the services from one to another provider in
a simpler manner. It is still an open research area which deserves more
attention.
This paper gives an overview of the current opportunities in the area
of cloud service portability, while giving special attention to TOSCA’s
approach. Our research is based on an adapter model to achieve the cloud
portability. It describes the foundation of a framework which will allow
the services to be described with the usage of XML. The solution is to
build a custom platform (PaaS) capable of accepting installations of any
portable application. The application provider will have to describe: 1)
the installation requirements and application structure in separate XML
files and 2) the platform to perform the necessary installation according
to the XML files, and 3) to automatically deploy the application/services.
research: How to wisely choose a cloud host for services and how to
change the cloud provider in an easy manner. Service portability in the
cloud is the ability to move the services from one to another provider in
a simpler manner. It is still an open research area which deserves more
attention.
This paper gives an overview of the current opportunities in the area
of cloud service portability, while giving special attention to TOSCA’s
approach. Our research is based on an adapter model to achieve the cloud
portability. It describes the foundation of a framework which will allow
the services to be described with the usage of XML. The solution is to
build a custom platform (PaaS) capable of accepting installations of any
portable application. The application provider will have to describe: 1)
the installation requirements and application structure in separate XML
files and 2) the platform to perform the necessary installation according
to the XML files, and 3) to automatically deploy the application/services.
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