CYCLONE Unified Deployment and Management of Federated, Multi-cloud Applications

Slawik, Mathias; Zilci, Begüm İlke; Demchenko, Yuri; Baranda, José Ignacio Aznar; Branchat, Robert; Loomis, Charles; Lodygensky, Oleg; Blanched, Christophe

doi:10.1109/ucc.2015.81

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“…Organizing the structure of distributed brokers is a critical element, as queries and metric statistics need to propagate in an efficient way among peers (meta-brokers). Therefore, in the modeling phase of the decentralized federation structure [19,20], a systematic and automated approach is required for exchange of the essential metrics among peers regarding the associated resource states. Based on this critical information, meta-brokering peers perform the meta-scheduling of client applications, and manage the dynamicity of federated cloud sites.…”

Section: Brokerage Topology Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Meta-Brokering P2P Overlay for Scheduling in Cloud Federation

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The interconnected cloud (Intercloud) federation is an emerging paradigm that revolutionizes the scalable service provision of geographically distributed resources. Large-scale distributed resources require well-coordinated and automated frameworks to facilitate service provision in a seamless and systematic manner. Unquestionably, standalone service providers must communicate and federate their cloud sites with other vendors to enable the infinite pooling of resources. The pooling of these resources provides uninterpretable services to increasingly growing cloud users more efficiently, and ensures an improved Service Level Agreement (SLA). However, the research of Intercloud resource management is in its infancy. Therefore, standard interfaces, protocols, and uniform architectural components need to be developed for seamless interaction among federated clouds. In this study, we propose a distributed meta-brokering-enabled scheduling framework for provision of user application services in the federated cloud environment. Modularized architecture of the proposed system with uniform configuration in participating resource sites orchestrate the critical operations of resource management effectively, and form the federation schema. Overlaid meta-brokering instances are implemented on the top of local resource brokers to keep the global functionality isolated. These instances in overlay topology communicate in a P2P manner to maintain decentralization, high scalability, and load manageability. The proposed framework has been implemented and evaluated by extending the Java-based CloudSim 3.0.3 simulation application programming interfaces (APIs). The presented results validate the proposed model and its efficiency to facilitate user application execution with the desired QoS parameters.

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Section: Brokerage Topology Paradigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…But most of these solutions work only on statically available cluster and cloud resources, such as Mesos [11], Kubernetes [12] and Docker/Swarm [13]. Some Multi-Cloud deployment solutions, such as CYCLONE [14]…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building an Open-Source Cross-Cloud DevOps Stack for a CRM Enterprise Application: A Case Study

Schork

Zahid

Pradhan

et al. 2019

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Open Source software solutions play a critical role for the SMEs by enabling easy access to reusable software. Also, with the rapid growth in the popularity of the cloud technologies, computational demands of SMEs are cost-efficiently met by the public clouds as users can dynamically acquire resources on demand according to their needs. However, non-standardized cloud interfaces, lack of inter-cloud transparency, and complex cost models, often result in vendor lock-in. Once in vendor lock-in, cloud users have to live with a single cloud provider and accept whatever pricing schemes and SLAs are imposed. Moreover, new regulations covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe require companies to enforce policies regarding secure storage of data in the cloud, as well as restrict moving confidential datasets outside Europe. This situation requires a more transparent use of cloud resources from multiple cloud providers, that conform with user's data privacy needs, service requirements, and budget. In this paper, we discuss challenges and pitfalls of designing a Cross-Cloud DevOps stack for an app-based extension platform of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The fully-automated DevOps stack, based on open source software tools and technologies, has been developed in close coordination with an open source integration project, Melodic. With the help of our DevOps stack, third-party apps in our CRM software are now Multi-Cloud ready, and the data storage in the cloud by the users conforms to potential GDPR requirements. In addition, the deployment time of apps has been reduced to minutes, while the platform is able to scale up and scale down apps efficiently based on the current workload requirements, saving substantial cloud costs.

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“…So, applications deployment automation and movement of large data volumes are the key problems that the research infrastructures need to solve to increase effectiveness of bioinformatics research. While the CYCLONE project (http://www.cycloneproject.eu/) [11] attempts to address bioinformatics applications automation, the dedicated network infrastructure provisioning will require corresponding ZTP functionality from the GEANT network.…”

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“…SlipStream [26] is an open source cloud application manager. is used within the CYCLONE project [11] to deploy cloud applications onto one or more IaaS cloud infrastructures and to manage the cloud resources allocated to the running cloud applications. The core SlipStream component is the deployment engine that is augmented with "App Store", "Cloud Service Catalog", dashboard, and monitoring to provide a complete PaaS environment for applications development and operation also referred to as DevOps.…”

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confidence: 99%

ZeroTouch Provisioning (ZTP) Model and Infrastructure Components for Multi-provider Cloud Services Provisioning

Demchenko

Filiposka

Vos

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering Workshop (IC2EW)

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Abstract-This paper presents results of the ongoing development of the Cloud Services Delivery Infrastructure (CSDI) that provides a basis for infrastructure centric cloud services provisioning, operation and management in multicloud multi-provider environment defined as a Zero Touch Provisioning, Operation and Management (ZTP/ZTPOM) model. The presented work refers to use cases from data intensive research that require high performance computation resources and large storage volumes that are typically distributed between datacenters often involving multiple cloud providers. Automation for large scale scientific (and industrial) applications should include provisioning of both inter-cloud network infrastructure and intra-cloud application resources. It should provide support for the complete application operation workflow together with the possible application infrastructure and resources changes that can occur during the application lifecycle. The authors investigate existing technologies for automation of the service provisioning and management processes aiming to cross-pollinate best practices from currently disconnected domains such as cloud based applications provisioning and multi-domain high-performance network provisioning. The paper refers to the previous and legacy research by authors, the Open Cloud eXchange (OCX), that has been proposed to address the last mile problem in cloud services delivery to campuses over trans-national backbone networks such as GEANT. OCX will serve as an integral component of the prospective ZTP infrastructure over the GEANT network. Another important component, the Marketplace, is defined for providing cloud services and applications discovery (in generally intercloud environment) and may also support additional services such as services composition and trust brokering for establishing customer-provider federations.

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CYCLONE Unified Deployment and Management of Federated, Multi-cloud Applications

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Distributed Meta-Brokering P2P Overlay for Scheduling in Cloud Federation

Distributed Meta-Brokering P2P Overlay for Scheduling in Cloud Federation

Building an Open-Source Cross-Cloud DevOps Stack for a CRM Enterprise Application: A Case Study

ZeroTouch Provisioning (ZTP) Model and Infrastructure Components for Multi-provider Cloud Services Provisioning

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