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Cloud-native applications consist of highly specialized and decoupled services that can be deployed, scaled and managed independently. Maintaining such applications available is a complex task for operators, because software defects and other kinds of faults can be challenging to diagnose and repair to quickly resume operations. Autonomic service operation is therefore a promising approach. However, there are risks associated to guaranteeing safe autonomic actuation, which must be managed. This paper discusses the challenges identified in the context of the development of a platform for autonomic service operation and describe the software architecture of the platform. Results show mean times to detect, diagnose and repair failures in the order of tens of seconds.
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This work has been funded through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of project CISUC - UID/CEC/00326/2020, by the European Social Fund, through the Regional Operational Program Centro 2020, and by the AESOP project (P2020-31/SI/2017, No. 040004).
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Tomás, J. et al. (2021). Autonomic Service Operation for Cloud Applications: Safe Actuation and Risk Management. In: Adler, R., et al. Dependable Computing - EDCC 2021 Workshops. EDCC 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86507-8_4
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