The SmartFrog configuration management framework

Goldsack, Patrick; Guijarro, Julio; Loughran, Steve; Coles, A.N.; Farrell, Andrew; Lain, Antonio; Murray, Paul T.; Toft, Peter

doi:10.1145/1496909.1496915

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“…First of all, let us mention some related papers [10,5,16] where are presented languages and configuration protocols for distributed applications in the cloud.…”

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Verification of a Dynamic Management Protocol for Cloud Applications

Abid

Salaün

Bongiovanni

et al. 2013

Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis

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Abstract. Cloud applications are composed of a set of interconnected software components distributed over several virtual machines. There is a need for protocols that can dynamically reconfigure such distributed applications. In this paper, we present a novel protocol, which is able to resolve dependencies in these applications, by (dis)connecting and starting/stopping components in a specific order. These virtual machines interact through a publish-subscribe communication media and reconfigure themselves upon demand in a decentralised fashion. Designing such protocols is an error-prone task. Therefore, we decided to specify the protocol with the LNT value-passing process algebra and to verify it using the model checking tools available in the CADP toolbox. As a result, the introduction of formal techniques and tools help to deeply revise the protocol, and these improvements have been taken into account in the corresponding Java implementation.

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“…First of all, let us mention some related papers [10,5,16] where are presented languages and configuration protocols for distributed applications in the cloud.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Verification of a Dynamic Management Protocol for Cloud Applications

Abid

Salaün

Bongiovanni

et al. 2013

Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis

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“…Industry SmartFrog [22] is a Java framework, developed at HP, for managing deployment in a distributed setting. It shares some similarities with the Engage approach as every component has a declarative description.…”

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Automatic deployment of component-based applications

Lascu

Mauro

Zavattaro

2015

Science of Computer Programming

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In distributed systems like those based on cloud or service-oriented frameworks, applications are typically assembled by deploying and connecting a large number of heterogeneous software components, spanning from fine-grained packages to coarse-grained complex services. Automation techniques and tools have been proposed to ease the deployment process of these complex system. By relying on a formal model of components, we describe a sound and complete algorithm for computing the sequence of actions that permits the deployment of a desired configuration even in the presence of circular dependencies among components. We give a proof for the polynomiality of the devised algorithm and exploit it to develop METIS, a tool for computing deployment plans. The validation of METIS has been performed in two ways: on the one hand, by considering artificial scenarios consisting of a huge number of different components synthesized by following typical configuration patterns and, on the other hand, by exploiting it to deploy real-life installations of a WordPress blogging service.

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“…It would be completely own by some of your internal business unit of department in case of on premises deployment model, it would be with a third party private cloud provider or with both in case of a hybrid model [8]. Based on the requirement and choice of consumer, there is a clear procedures and policies has to be agreed between both parties on all identified services like, security, reporting, monitoring and complete operations and maintenance [9]. Depend on the deployment model chosen, complete cloud service provider role would be entirely assigned to the third party service provider in case of public cloud.…”

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Cloud Consumer and Cloud Vendor – Rights and Responsibilities

Negi¹

2015

IJIRCCE

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A cloud service provider is an organization which provides the cloud services, and a cloud consumer is a person or organization that uses the different cloud services from one or different cloud service providers. It has been a great challenge since years to understand the level of responsibilities between a cloud vendor and consumer due to lack of cloud standards [1] [2]. There are no standard guidelines as of today to get a formal agreement on service responsibilities with cloud service providers which makes it an area of great worry for cloud consumers. Consumers don't get confidence to buy a cloud service unless there is a clear understanding in terms of the responsibilities. Despite of all of this we know cloud computing business still growing with a rapid speed and consistently year by year. One of the reasons is despite of such challenges benefits visibilities are on higher side, and all are getting agreed based on their mutual understandings [3]. But practically it's a very confusing and time taking process to understand and document all responsibilities between consumer and vendor to sign a formal agreement. In this paper I am going to explain a set of standard expectations need to be set and agreed formally between a cloud consumer and vendor to avoid such non formal mutual understanding agreements.

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The SmartFrog configuration management framework

Cited by 79 publications

References 5 publications

Verification of a Dynamic Management Protocol for Cloud Applications

Verification of a Dynamic Management Protocol for Cloud Applications

Automatic deployment of component-based applications

Cloud Consumer and Cloud Vendor – Rights and Responsibilities

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