Towards an architecture for deploying elastic services in the cloud

Johannes Kirschnick; Jose M. Alcaraz Calero; Patrick Goldsack; Andrew Farrell; Julio Guijarro; Steve Loughran; Nigel Edwards; Lawrence Wilcock

doi:10.1002/spe.1090

Towards an architecture for deploying elastic services in the cloud

Johannes Kirschnick, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero^*, Patrick Goldsack, Andrew Farrell, Julio Guijarro, Steve Loughran, Nigel Edwards, Lawrence Wilcock

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Abstract

Cloud computing infrastructure services enable the flexible creation of virtual infrastructures on‐demand. However, the creation of infrastructures is only a part of the process for provisioning services. Other steps such as installation, deployment, configuration, monitoring and management of software components are needed to fully provide services to end‐users in the cloud. This paper describes a peer‐to‐peer architecture to automatically deploy services on cloud infrastructures. The architecture uses a component repository to manage the deployment of these software components, enabling elasticity by using the underlying cloud infrastructure provider. The life cycle of these components is described in this paper, as well as the language for defining them. We also describe the open‐source proof‐of‐concept implementation. Some technical information about this implementation together with some statistical results are also provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	395-408
Number of pages	14
Journal	Software - Practice and Experience
Volume	42
Issue number	4
Early online date	26 May 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.1090
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

cloud computing
automated service deployment
service provisioning
elastic services

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