Towards a Goal-oriented Approach to Adaptable Re-deployment of Cloud-based Applications

Patrizia Scandurra, Marina Mongiello, Simona Colucci, Luigi Alfredo Grieco

2016

Abstract

Due to the on-demand and dynamic nature of Cloud, there is an increasing interest for automated management of adaptation and (possibly) re-deployment of cloud applications to realize quality requirements and evolution needs autonomously at run-time. This paper proposes a fast and automated approach for adapting and redeploying a cloud application at run-time as dictated by evolution needs and sudden changes in the operating environment conditions. The proposed approach exploits a graph-based model and an algorithm that extracts a sub-graph identifying the adaptation processes to be executed according to evolution changes. The approach is general enough to be implemented by any cloud application management framework. A TOSCA-based description of the structure and management aspects of the cloud application may be updated according to the above mentioned sub-graph. Then, this description may be processed by a TOSCA-compliant runtime environment to effectively adapt and possibly re-deploy the cloud application in an automated manner. The paper also illustrates the instantiation of this generic approach for adapting an e-commerce cloud application.

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Scandurra P., Mongiello M., Colucci S. and Grieco L. (2016). Towards a Goal-oriented Approach to Adaptable Re-deployment of Cloud-based Applications . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-182-3, pages 253-260. DOI: 10.5220/0005861602530260


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@conference{closer16,
author={Patrizia Scandurra and Marina Mongiello and Simona Colucci and Luigi Alfredo Grieco},
title={Towards a Goal-oriented Approach to Adaptable Re-deployment of Cloud-based Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2016},
pages={253-260},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005861602530260},
isbn={978-989-758-182-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Towards a Goal-oriented Approach to Adaptable Re-deployment of Cloud-based Applications
SN - 978-989-758-182-3
AU - Scandurra P.
AU - Mongiello M.
AU - Colucci S.
AU - Grieco L.
PY - 2016
SP - 253
EP - 260
DO - 10.5220/0005861602530260