Improve Resource-sharing through Functionality-preserving Merge of Cloud Application Topologies

Tobias Binz, Uwe Breitenbücher, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann, Andreas Weiß

2013

Abstract

Resource sharing is an important aspect how cost savings in cloud computing are realized. This is especially important in multi-tenancy settings, where different tenants share the same resource. This paper presents an approach to merge two application topologies into one, while on the one hand preserving the functionality of both applications and on the other hand enabling sharing of similar components. Previous work has not addressed this due to the lack of ways to describe topologies of composite applications in a decomposed, formal, and machine-readable way. New standardization initiatives, such as TOSCA, provide a way to describe application topologies, which are also portable and manageable. We propose an approach, realization, and architecture enabling a functionality-preserving merge of application topologies. To validate our approach we prototypically implemented and applied it to merge a set of test cases. All in all, the functional-preserving merge is a method to support the optimization and migration of existing applications to the cloud, because it increases resource sharing in the processed application topologies.

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Binz T., Breitenbücher U., Kopp O., Leymann F. and Weiß A. (2013). Improve Resource-sharing through Functionality-preserving Merge of Cloud Application Topologies . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 96-103. DOI: 10.5220/0004378000960103


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@conference{closer13,
author={Tobias Binz and Uwe Breitenbücher and Oliver Kopp and Frank Leymann and Andreas Weiß},
title={Improve Resource-sharing through Functionality-preserving Merge of Cloud Application Topologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={96-103},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004378000960103},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Improve Resource-sharing through Functionality-preserving Merge of Cloud Application Topologies
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Binz T.
AU - Breitenbücher U.
AU - Kopp O.
AU - Leymann F.
AU - Weiß A.
PY - 2013
SP - 96
EP - 103
DO - 10.5220/0004378000960103