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BibliographyHirmer, Pascal; Breitenbücher, Uwe; Binz, Tobias; Leymann, Frank: Automatic Topology Completion of TOSCA-based Cloud Applications.
In: Proceedings des CloudCycle14 Workshops auf der 44. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
LNI; 232, pp. 247-258, english.
Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), September 22, 2014.
ISBN: 978-3-88579-626-8.
Article in Proceedings (Workshop Paper).
CR-SchemaK.6 (Management of Computing and Information Systems)
KeywordsTOSCA; Automatic Topology Completion; Provisioning; Cloud Computing; Topology Modeling
Abstract

Automation of application provisioning is one of the key aspects of Cloud Computing. Standards such as the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) provide a means to model application topologies which can be provisioned fully automatically. Many automated provisioning engines require that these topologies are complete in the sense of specifying all application, platform, and infrastructure components. However, modeling complete models is a complex, timeconsuming, and error-prone task that typically requires a lot of technical expertise. In this paper, we present an approach that enables users to model incomplete TOSCA application topologies that are completed automatically to deployable, complete models. This enables users to focus on the business-relevant application components and simplifies the creation process tremendously by minimizing the required effort and know-how. We prove the technical feasibility of the presented approach by a prototypical implementation based on the open source modeling tool Winery. In addition, we evaluate the approach by standards-compliance and performance.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)CloudCycle
Entry dateSeptember 2, 2014
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