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Extending a Low-Code Tool with Multi-cloud Deployment Capabilities

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Abstract

Low-code emerged as an evolution of model-driven engineering to accelerate software delivery, and it continues to gain traction today. However, low-code tools and solutions have primarily focused on development, often neglecting or offering minimal support for the application deployment process, such as lacking capabilities for multi-cloud deployments. In this paper, we propose an extension of BESSER, an open-source low-code platform, to address the packaging and deployment of applications in multi-cloud environments. This extension includes the definition of a language and a grammar to enable the modeling of the deployment architecture, also enabling the specification of public and on-premises clusters. Additionally, we have developed code generators to automate the application packaging, and cloud provisioning and deployment using Terraform. The complete infrastructure is available in an open-source repository.

F. Ul Haq and I. Alfonso—These authors contributed equally.

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Notes

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    https://www.terraform.io/.

  2. 2.

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    https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/.

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This project is supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) PEARL program, grant agreement 16544475.

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  1. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Fitash Ul Haq, Iván Alfonso, Armen Sulejmani & Jordi Cabot

  2. University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

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Ul Haq, F., Alfonso, I., Sulejmani, A., Cabot, J. (2024). Extending a Low-Code Tool with Multi-cloud Deployment Capabilities. In: Ampatzoglou, A., et al. Software Architecture. ECSA 2024 Tracks and Workshops. ECSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14937. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71246-3_5

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