c-Eclipse: An Open-Source Management Framework for Cloud Applications

Sofokleous, Chrystalla; Loulloudes, Nicholas; Trihinas, Demetris; Pallis, George; Dikaiakos, Marios D.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09873-9_4

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“…Finally, to enable the users to describe and deploy applications with CELAR, c-Eclipse [12], a plugin to the popular Eclipse IDE has been used. The users describe their application with c-Eclipse, using the TOSCA [13] specification language and manage their deployments.…”

Section: System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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CELAR: Automated application elasticity platform

Giannakopoulos

Papailiou

Mantas

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

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Abstract-One of the main promises of the cloud computing paradigm is the ability to scale resources on-demand. This feature characterizes the cloud era, where the overhead of early expenditure for infrastructure is eliminated. Innovative services are thus able to enter the market quicker and adopt faster to new challenges and user demand. One of the main aspects of this on-demand nature is the concept of elasticity, i.e., the ability of autonomously provision and de-provision resources by reacting to changes in the incoming load. An elastic service is able to operate with an optimal cost by expanding and contracting its used resources at runtime and according to demand. This does not only minimizes running cost, but also avoids disruptive outages due to spikes in service usage. While the various layers comprising a cloud service can be scaled, this does not happen in a unified manner. The vision of CELAR is to provide a fully integrated software stack that manages resource allocation for cloud applications in an autonomous, efficient and generic manner. In order to achieve that, CELAR incorporates novel methodologies for describing cloud applications, monitoring the use of various resources, evaluating cost, taking informed decisions and interacting with the underlying cloud infrastructure. Our goal is two-fold. On the one hand is developing the methodologies for achieving multi-grained, automatic elasticity control on both application and infrastructure level. On the other hand is developing the open-source tools that implement those methods in an integrated manner. Hereby we present an overview of the CELAR platform, explaining its architectural components and some basic workflows that show how they interact in order to achieve the core functionalities.

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Section: System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…During this phase, the user interacts with c-Eclipse [12], a user friendly, informative eclipse plugin that serves as a front-end GUI for CELAR. Cloud application portability is of great importance in the realm of cloud infrastructure provisioning.…”

Section: A Application Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

CELAR: Automated application elasticity platform

Giannakopoulos

Papailiou

Mantas

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

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“…Chef [1], CFEngine [11], Puppet [6]. TOSCA [12], CloudMF [13] and c-Eclipse [14] are the advanced tools that support the description and configuration of complex topologies. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder [15] simplifies the configuration of multi-layer applications by packing components into VM appliances.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

SALSA: A Framework for Dynamic Configuration of Cloud Services

Truong

Copil

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

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Contemporary cloud services are constructed from different types of software and deployed on multiple cloud infrastructures, which offer various configuration options, and can change dynamically at runtime. Due to this complexity, such cloud services require substantial configuration efforts. Currently we lack techniques for automating the complex tasks and providing fine-grained configuration features for multi-cloud services. In this paper, we present a novel multi-level configuration approach for complex cloud services on multi-cloud environments. We develop techniques for automating configuration orchestration activities. Our solution enables the fine-grained configuration at different application abstraction levels and supports the dynamic change of cloud services at runtime. We provide the SALSA framework to implement our approach and demonstrate its usefulness with several real-world services.

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