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CLOSER 2020: Cloud Computing and Services Science pp 301–324Cite as

Cluster-Agnostic Orchestration of Containerised Applications

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Abstract

The complexity of managing cloud applications’ life-cycle increases with the widening of the cloud landscape, as new IT players gain market share. Cloud orchestration frameworks promise to handle such complexity offering user-friendly management tools that help customers to transparently deal with portability and interoperability issues, by hiding away the heterogeneity of the cloud providers’ proprietary interfaces. Regarding the provisioning of cloud-enabled applications, the containerisation paradigm, along with the related micro-services technology, has managed to deliver the portability promise. While most of cloud orchestration frameworks support container-based cluster technologies, a standard-based approach to describe containerised applications still lacks. In this work, we propose TORCH, a TOSCA-based cloud orchestrator capable of interfacing to theoretically any container run-time software by leveraging a standard-aligned and easy-to-use language to describe application requirements. Validation tests run on a small-scale test-bed prove the viability of the proposed solution.

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Notes

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    Domenico Calcaterra, Giuseppe Di Modica, Pietro Mazzaglia & Orazio Tomarchio

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Calcaterra, D., Di Modica, G., Mazzaglia, P., Tomarchio, O. (2021). Cluster-Agnostic Orchestration of Containerised Applications. In: Ferguson, D., Pahl, C., Helfert, M. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1399. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72369-9_13

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