Abstract
Existing cloud resource providers offer heterogeneous resource deployment services to describe and deploy resource configurations. Describing and deploying federated cloud resource configurations over such deployment services is challenging due to dynamic application requirements and complexity of cloud environments. While solutions exist to solve this problem, they offer limited facilities to cater for resource provisioning over federated cloud services. This paper presents a novel cloud resource deployment framework that leverages a unified configuration knowledge-base where process-based notation is used to describe complex configurations over federated cloud services. Based on these notations, a deployment engine generates deployment scripts that can be executed by external cloud resource deployment services such as Puppet and Chef. The paper describes the concepts, techniques and current implementation of the proposed system. Experiments on a real-life federated cloud resource show significant improvements achieved by our approach compared to traditional techniques.
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Weerasiri, D., Benatallah, B., Barukh, M.C. (2015). Process-driven Configuration of Federated Cloud Resources. In: Renz, M., Shahabi, C., Zhou, X., Cheema, M. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9049. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18120-2_20
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