Unified Invocation of Scripts and Services for Provisioning, Deployment, and Management of Cloud Applications Based on TOSCA

Johannes Wettinger, Tobias Binz, Uwe Breitenbücher, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann, Michael Zimmermann

2014

Abstract

There are several script-centric approaches, APIs, and tools available to implement automated provisioning, deployment, and management of applications in the Cloud. The automation of all these aspects is key for reducing costs. However, most of these approaches are script-centric and provide proprietary solutions employing different invocation mechanisms, interfaces, and state models. Moreover, most Cloud providers offer proprietary Web services or APIs to be used for provisioning and management purposes. Consequently, it is hard to create deployment and management plans integrating several of these approaches. The goal of our work is to come up with an approach for unified invocation of scripts and services without handling each proprietary interface separately. A prototype realizes the presented approach in a standards-based manner using the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA).

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Wettinger J., Binz T., Breitenbücher U., Kopp O., Leymann F. and Zimmermann M. (2014). Unified Invocation of Scripts and Services for Provisioning, Deployment, and Management of Cloud Applications Based on TOSCA . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-019-2, pages 559-568. DOI: 10.5220/0004859005590568


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@conference{closer14,
author={Johannes Wettinger and Tobias Binz and Uwe Breitenbücher and Oliver Kopp and Frank Leymann and Michael Zimmermann},
title={Unified Invocation of Scripts and Services for Provisioning, Deployment, and Management of Cloud Applications Based on TOSCA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2014},
pages={559-568},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004859005590568},
isbn={978-989-758-019-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Unified Invocation of Scripts and Services for Provisioning, Deployment, and Management of Cloud Applications Based on TOSCA
SN - 978-989-758-019-2
AU - Wettinger J.
AU - Binz T.
AU - Breitenbücher U.
AU - Kopp O.
AU - Leymann F.
AU - Zimmermann M.
PY - 2014
SP - 559
EP - 568
DO - 10.5220/0004859005590568