MODAClouds: A model-driven approach for the design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds

Abstract

Cloud computing is emerging as a major trend in the ICT industry. While most of the attention of the research community is focused on considering the perspective of the Cloud providers, offering mechanisms to support scaling of resources and interoperability and federation between Clouds, the perspective of developers and operators willing to choose the Cloud without being strictly bound to a specific solution is mostly neglected. We argue that Model-Driven Development can be helpful in this context as it would allow developers to design software systems in a cloud-agnostic way and to be supported by model transformation techniques into the process of instantiating the system into specific, possibly, multiple Clouds. The MODA-CLOUDS (MOdel-Driven Approach for the design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds) approach we present here is based on these principles and aims at supporting system developers and operators in exploiting multiple Clouds for the same system and in migrating (part of) their systems from Cloud to Cloud as needed. MODACLOUDS offers a qualitydriven design, development and operation method and features a Decision Support System to enable risk analysis for the selection of Cloud providers and for the evaluation of the Cloud adoption impact on internal business processes. Furthermore, MODACLOUDS offers a run-time environment for observing the system under execution and for enabling a feedback loop with the design environment. This allows system developers to react to performance fluctuations and to redeploy applications on different Clouds on the long term.

Integrated Mobility: A Research in Progress

“…Finally, as future goal, with a cloud based service as IRMA, users will, ideally, plan their mobility in any urban area across the world. Also, a global coverage implies several advances in clouds, as interoperability among cloud offerings with federating applications running on different clouds [25], and combine pull and push approaches by integrating Service Oriented and Event Driven architectures. Finally, IRMA can be platform for a global virtual ticket.…”

Towards a Generic Autonomic Model to Manage Cloud Services

“…Recent work have proposed the use a Model-driven Engineering for engineering the Cloud services. Some for reusing existing deployment procedures (Mastelic et al, 2014), other for optimizing VM conguration (Dougherty et al, 2012) or managing multi-cloud applications (e.g., migrate some VMs from a IaaS to another that offers better performance) (Ardagna and al., 2012). These approaches typically focus on supporting either IaaS or PaaS conguration, but do not address SaaS layer nor cross-layer modelisation.…”

Systematic Literature Review of the Cloud-ready Software Architecture

“…However there were multiple articles that were discussing architectural approaches for development of cloud-ready applications (Sodhi et al (2011)), principles (Andrikopoulos et al (2012)), patterns (Wilder (2012), Fehling et al (2011, 2014). Later works in this area were more related to conventional application migration to the cloud (Andrikopoulos et al (2013)) or development methods or frameworks (Inzinger et al (2014), Ardagna et al (2012)). …”