AUTOGENIC: Automated Generation of Self-configuring Microservices

Stefan Kehrer, Wolfgang Blochinger

2018

Abstract

The state of the art proposes the microservices architectural style to build applications. Additionally, container virtualization and container management systems evolved into the perfect fit for developing, deploying, and operating microservices in line with the DevOps paradigm. Container virtualization facilitates deployment by ensuring independence from the runtime environment. However, microservices store their configuration in the environment. Therefore, software developers have to wire their microservice implementation with technologies provided by the target runtime environment such as configuration stores and service registries. These technological dependencies counteract the portability benefit of using container virtualization. In this paper, we present AUTOGENIC - a model-based approach to assist software developers in building microservices as self-configuring containers without being bound to operational technologies. We provide developers with a simple configuration model to specify configuration operations of containers and automatically generate a self-configuring microservice tailored for the targeted runtime environment. Our approach is supported by a method, which describes the steps to automate the generation of self-configuring microservices. Additionally, we present and evaluate a prototype, which leverages the emerging TOSCA standard.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kehrer S. and Blochinger W. (2018). AUTOGENIC: Automated Generation of Self-configuring Microservices.In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-295-0, pages 35-46. DOI: 10.5220/0006659800350046

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer18,
author={Stefan Kehrer and Wolfgang Blochinger},
title={AUTOGENIC: Automated Generation of Self-configuring Microservices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2018},
pages={35-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006659800350046},
isbn={978-989-758-295-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - AUTOGENIC: Automated Generation of Self-configuring Microservices
SN - 978-989-758-295-0
AU - Kehrer S.
AU - Blochinger W.
PY - 2018
SP - 35
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0006659800350046