Vendor Agents for IAAS Cloud Interoperability

Amato, Alba; Tasquier, Luca; Copie, Adrian

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32524-3_34

Cited by 8 publications

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“…The cloud agency aims at providing a monitoring service that runs on IaaS under the control of the customer. Implemented as a multi-agent system [27], the cloud agency is based on asynchronous messaging, as other mOSAIC software prototypes. It offers a RESTful interface compliant with OCCI [28].…”

Section: Brokering Negotiation and Monitoring With Mosaic's Cloud Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodologies for Cloud Portability and Interoperability

Martino¹,

Cretella²,

Esposito³

2015

Cloud Portability and Interoperability

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The OMG model-driven architecture (MDA) [1] is a model-based approach for the development of software systems that aims at separating the platform-independent design of a software application from its implementation on a given platform. The main feature and benefits of MDA from the cloud perspective are the enablement of portability, interoperability, and reusability of (parts of) the system, as well as its easy maintenance, through human-readable and reusable specifications at various levels of abstraction. In the context of cloud computing, model-driven development allows developers to design software systems in a cloud-agnostic way, and to be supported by model transformation techniques into the process of instantiating the system into specific and multiple clouds. This approach, which is commonly summarized as "model once, generate anywhere", is particularly relevant when it comes to designing and managing applications across multiple clouds, as well as migrating them from one cloud to another. Combining model-driven application engineering and the cloud computing domain is currently the focus of several research groups and projects, among others, MODAClouds MDA in MODACloudsMODAClouds-MOdel-Driven Approach for design and execution of applications on multiple Clouds [6] is an EC-funded research project that proposes a model-driven approach aimed at supporting system developers and operators in utilizing multiple clouds and in migrating parts of their systems from cloud to cloud as needed. The MODACloudML platform relies on a domain-specific language for the design and execution of applications on multiple clouds. The model-driven engineering approach adopted by the MODACloudML platform allows developers

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Section: Brokering Negotiation and Monitoring With Mosaic's Cloud Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodologies for Cloud Portability and Interoperability

Martino¹,

Cretella²,

Esposito³

2015

Cloud Portability and Interoperability

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“…The cloud agency aims at providing a monitoring service that runs on IaaS under the control of the customer. Implemented as a multi‐agent system , the cloud agency is based on asynchronous messaging as other mOSAIC software prototypes. The brokering of the best collection of cloud resources has been modeled as a multi‐criteria optimization problem, with hard and soft constraints that can be included by the user in the call‐for‐proposals.…”

Section: The Mosaic Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

A semantic engine for porting applications to the cloud and among clouds

Cretella

Martino

2014

Softw Pract Exp

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In this paper, we present an engine based on semantic technologies aimed at supporting cloud applications developers, in the tasks of discovering functionalities, APIs, and resources needed for the application development through semantic based agnostic (vendor independent) representations of such application components, and representation of generic programming concepts and patterns, including application domain related ones. It handles, maintains, and exposes to the user in a graphical way the semantic descriptions of application domain concepts, application-related concepts, general design patterns and programming functionalities, specific API implementations and cloud resources, layering the knowledge base in four layers. The semantic engine is a component of the European project mOSAICs framework.The semantic engine architecture includes several modules ( Figure 2):The graphical interface supports the user in expressing the query in graphical mode and presents the results of the query to the user. It uses ontologies to build up a semantic query, represented by means of an internal graph-based representation.An important feature of the semantic engine is its capability to deduce an appropriate parameterized configuration of the cloud application and a generic description of needed IaaS resources. This feature is made possible by the execution of empirical rules that extensively use the semantic description of the application, particularly its design pattern and the description of the critical aspects of the application that need elasticity, such as computational and data complexity of its algorithm. The automatic reasoning feature of the semantic engine is extensively described and exemplified in [31]. In the following, we present a simple example of a rule that provides information on the needed properties of a Virtual Machine that hosts a Web server in a cloud application (Listing 1). This rule, based on the design logic of the application, in this case, a three-tier architectural pattern, and on information about the expected Visitors Peak, aims to provide information to the developer about the properties of the Virtual Machine that has to be acquired from an IaaS provider.The execution of such rules on the knowledge base results in a complete and generic description of the needed IaaS resources for the application. Listing 2 presents a part of such description.

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“…A Cloud provider offer is represented in a brokering or negotiation process by a Vendor Module; details about the module architecture and interaction with the Cloud Agency were exposed in [30]. A simple template was designed to offer a mechanism for new Cloud providers to connected their services to the Cloud Agency; the template was first documented in [31].…”

Section: Vendor Modulesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

Petcu

Martino

Venticinque

et al. 2013

J Cloud Comput Adv Syst Appl

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The diversity of Cloud computing services is challenging the application developers as various and non-standard interfaces are provided for these services. Few middleware solutions were developed until now to support the design, deployment and execution of service-independent applications as well as the management of resources from multiple Clouds. This paper focuses on one of these advanced middleware solutions, called mOSAIC. Written after the completion of its development, this paper presents an integrated overview of the mOSAIC approach and the use of its various software prototypes in a Cloud application development process. We are starting from the design concepts and arrive to various applications, as well as to the position versus similar initiatives.

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Vendor Agents for IAAS Cloud Interoperability

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Methodologies for Cloud Portability and Interoperability

Methodologies for Cloud Portability and Interoperability

A semantic engine for porting applications to the cloud and among clouds

Experiences in building a mOSAIC of clouds

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