Towards Open-Source Cloudware

The diversity of Cloud computing services is challenging the application developers as various and non-standard interfaces are provided for these services. Few middleware solutions were developed until now to support the design, deployment and execution of service-independent applications as well as the management of resources from multiple Clouds. This paper focuses on one of these advanced middleware solutions, called mOSAIC. Written after the completion of its development, this paper presents an integrated overview of the mOSAIC approach and the use of its various software prototypes in a Cloud application development process. We are starting from the design concepts and arrive to various applications, as well as to the position versus similar initiatives.

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“…It uses Twitter' streams of updates to subscribed applications. A first-time description is available in [83].…”

Section: Demo Applications For the Api Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

Petcu

Martino

Venticinque

et al. 2013

J Cloud Comput Adv Syst Appl

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“…Petcu et al [17] aim to create an open source API that helps developers to implement portable applications that can work on multiple PaaS platforms (i.e., write once and deploy anywhere). Their project is called mOSAIC (Open Source API and platform for multiple Clouds).…”

Section: B Open Source Apismentioning

confidence: 99%

A Case Study for Deploying Applications on Heterogeneous PaaS Platforms

Hossny

Khattab

Omara

et al. 2013

2013 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data

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CloudPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model provides developers with the ability to deploy and manage their applications remotely through the cloud and pay only for actual usage hours. Currently, there is no standard API for PaaS management and deployment; each PaaS provider has its own specific APIs (e.g., Google AppEngine (GAE), OpenShift (OS), Cloud Foundry (CF), and Windows Azure). Therefore, deploying applications on heterogeneous PaaS platforms is considered one of the challenges that make some developers worry about using PaaS services. Such challenge can be solved by providing a standard or a generic API that overcomes PaaS API heterogeneity. The aim of this paper is to report on our effort to use and extend a generic API, namely the COAPS API, which supports deployment and management on Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. According to the work in this paper, an extension of the COAPS API is provided to include the deployment on Google AppEngine as a case study to demonstrate COAPS API generality.

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“…Note that the first presentation of the real‐time feed application was performed in Petcu et al , where details about the Web‐based user interface of the application can be found, as well as some preliminary about the scaling capacity of the application components. Here, we use this application to provide feedback concerning the platform support for the application needs and how the replacement of application components can improve the application functionality.…”

Section: Resource and Component Orchestrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, another similar component, not depicted in the figure, is available that periodically checks all the known subscriptions for those users that want to receive alerts through email, for example, and does not use the Web-based user interface, on the basis of how frequently the source changes and the last time it was fetched, pushing notifications to the fetcher. Note that the first presentation of the real-time feed application was performed in Petcu et al [26], where details about the Web-based user interface of the application can be found, as well as some preliminary about the scaling capacity of the application components. Here, we use this application to provide feedback concerning the platform support for the application needs and how the replacement of application components can improve the application functionality.…”

Section: Real-time Feeds Examplementioning

confidence: 99%

Cloud resource orchestration within an open‐source component‐based platform as a service

Petcu

Panica

Crăciun

et al. 2013

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYIn the growing market of cloud computing dominated by proprietary solutions, the adoption of open-source and deployable middleware that hides the service heterogeneity and ensure code portability can provide important benefits for the fast development of new services. Therefore, this paper exposes the mechanisms for orchestrating cloud-enabled hardware and software resources supported by a recently developed open-source platform as a service.

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Towards Open-Source Cloudware

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Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

A Case Study for Deploying Applications on Heterogeneous PaaS Platforms

Cloud resource orchestration within an open‐source component‐based platform as a service

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