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SAM 2016: System Analysis and Modeling. Technology-Specific Aspects of Models pp 68–83Cite as

Domain Model Optimized Deployment and Execution of Cloud Applications with TOSCA

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Cloud computing promises to provide computing power as a utility and the adaptability to application requirements is one of its key benefits. However, using cloud infrastructures still requires a lot of technical expertise, which becomes a burden especially for non-computer scientists. Therefore, using model-driven approaches seems promising and can help to lower this burden by raising the level of abstraction. To achieve the correct scale of the cloud resources, a mechanism is required to map the computational requirements of the users domain model to parameters of the cloud infrastructure. In this paper, we present a framework, which scales the required infrastructure according to the demands of the users domain model. The framework utilizes a metamodel based on the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) for modelling the cloud applications. Additionally, we introduce a domain-specific language to define a mapping between domain model parameters and parameters of the cloud infrastructure to achieve an appropriate scale.

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Notes

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    GroupTemplates and GroupTypes are currently part of the TOSCA YAML specification, but not part of the TOSCA XML specification. We included them in the metamodel, because we need their functionality to for modeling scalability in our deployments.

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    Available online at https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.x/tree/master/tutorials.

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The work of Fabian Glaser is partially funded by the Joint Centre of Simulation Technology (https://www.simzentrum.de/) of the University of Göttingen and the Technical University of Clausthal (Project 11.4.1).

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Glaser, F. (2016). Domain Model Optimized Deployment and Execution of Cloud Applications with TOSCA. In: Grabowski , J., Herbold, S. (eds) System Analysis and Modeling. Technology-Specific Aspects of Models . SAM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9959. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46613-2_5

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