Authors:
Amine Ghrab
1
;
Sabri Skhiri
1
;
Hervé Koener
2
and
Guy Leduc
2
Affiliations:
1
Eura Nova R&D, Belgium
;
2
University of Liège, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Cloud Computing, OCCI, Service Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Interoperability
;
Cloud Standards
;
Fundamentals
;
Service Monitoring and Control
;
Services Science
Abstract:
Migrating services to the cloud brings all the benefits of elasticity, scalability and cost-cutting. However, migrating services among different cloud infrastructures or outside the cloud is not an obvious task. In addition, distributing services among multiple cloud providers, or on a hybrid installation requires a custom implementation effort that must be repeated at each infrastructure change. This situation raises the lock-in problem and discourages cloud adoption. Cloud computing open standards were designed to face this situation and to bring interoperability and portability to cloud environments. However, they target isolated resources, and do not take into account the notion of complete services. In this paper, we introduce an extension to OCCI in order to support complete service definition and management automation. We support this proposal with an open-source framework for service management through compliant cloud infrastructures.