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TOSCA-based container orchestration on Mesos

Two-phase deployment of cloud applications using container-based artifacts

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Container virtualization evolved into a key technology for deployment automation in line with the DevOps paradigm. Whereas container management systems facilitate the deployment of cloud applications by employing container-based artifacts, parts of the deployment logic have been applied before to build these artifacts. Current approaches do not integrate these two deployment phases in a comprehensive manner. Limited knowledge on application software and middleware encapsulated in container-based artifacts leads to maintainability and configuration issues. Besides, the deployment of cloud applications is based on custom orchestration solutions leading to lock-in problems. In this paper, we propose a two-phase deployment method based on the TOSCA standard. We present integration concepts for TOSCA-based orchestration and deployment automation using container-based artifacts. Our two-phase deployment method enables capturing and aligning all the deployment logic related to a software release leading to better maintainability. Furthermore, we build a container management system, which is composed of a TOSCA-based orchestrator on Apache Mesos, to deploy container-based cloud applications automatically.

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  1. https://www.docker.com.

  2. https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon.

  3. https://mesos.apache.org.

  4. https://kubernetes.io.

  5. https://github.com/docker/swarm.

  6. https://aws.amazon.com/de/ecs.

  7. https://hub.docker.com.

  8. https://hub.docker.com/_/registry.

  9. https://www.opencontainers.org.

  10. http://www.opentosca.org.

  11. https://alien4cloud.github.io.

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This research was partially funded by the Ministry of Science of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, for the Doctoral Program ’Services Computing’.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Reutlingen University, Alteburgstr. 150, 72762, Reutlingen, Germany

    Stefan Kehrer & Wolfgang Blochinger

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Kehrer, S., Blochinger, W. TOSCA-based container orchestration on Mesos. Comput Sci Res Dev 33, 305–316 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-017-0385-0

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