A Comparison of Multi-cloud Provisioning Platforms

Domenico Calcaterra, Vincenzo Cartelli, Giuseppe Di Modica, Orazio Tomarchio

2019

Abstract

Although cloud computing has been around for over a decade now, many issues of the first hour still persist. Vendor lock-in, poor interoperability and portability hinder users from taking full advantage of main cloud features. On the industry side, the big players often adopt proprietary solutions to guarantee a seamless management and orchestration of cloud applications; on the research side, the TOSCA specification has emerged as the most authoritative effort for the interoperable description of cloud services. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of a TOSCA-based orchestration framework for the automated service provisioning. We also compare this approach to two open-source orchestration tools (Heat, Cloudify) with respect to the deployment of a two-tier application on an OpenStack environment. Test results show our method performs comparably to the aforementioned tools, while maintaining full compliance with TOSCA.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Calcaterra D., Cartelli V., Di Modica G. and Tomarchio O. (2019). A Comparison of Multi-cloud Provisioning Platforms.In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-365-0, pages 507-514. DOI: 10.5220/0007765005070514

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer19,
author={Domenico Calcaterra and Vincenzo Cartelli and Giuseppe Di Modica and Orazio Tomarchio},
title={A Comparison of Multi-cloud Provisioning Platforms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2019},
pages={507-514},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007765005070514},
isbn={978-989-758-365-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - A Comparison of Multi-cloud Provisioning Platforms
SN - 978-989-758-365-0
AU - Calcaterra D.
AU - Cartelli V.
AU - Di Modica G.
AU - Tomarchio O.
PY - 2019
SP - 507
EP - 514
DO - 10.5220/0007765005070514