Authors:
Johannes Wettinger
;
Tobias Binz
;
Uwe Breitenbücher
;
Oliver Kopp
;
Frank Leymann
and
Michael Zimmermann
Affiliation:
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Keyword(s):
Management Plans, Management Operations, Script Invocation, Unified Interface, TOSCA, DevOps.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
API Management
;
Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging and Bursting
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Cloud Interoperability
;
Cloud Optimization and Automation
;
Cloud Standards
;
Fundamentals
Abstract:
There are several script-centric approaches, APIs, and tools available to implement automated provisioning, deployment, and management of applications in the Cloud. The automation of all these aspects is key for reducing costs. However, most of these approaches are script-centric and provide proprietary solutions employing different invocation mechanisms, interfaces, and state models. Moreover, most Cloud providers offer proprietary Web services or APIs to be used for provisioning and management purposes. Consequently, it is hard to create deployment and management plans integrating several of these approaches. The goal of our work is to come up with an approach for unified invocation of scripts and services without handling each proprietary interface separately. A prototype realizes the presented approach in a standards-based manner using the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA).