Article in Proceedings INPROC-2020-26

BibliographyWurster, Michael; Breitenbücher, Uwe; Harzenetter, Lukas; Leymann, Frank; Soldani, Jacopo; Yussupov, Vladimir: TOSCA Light: Bridging the Gap between the TOSCA Specification and Production-ready Deployment Technologies.
In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 216-226, german.
SciTePress, May 2020.
DOI: 10.5220/0009794302160226.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.0 (Computer Systems Organization, General)
D.2 (Software Engineering)
Abstract

The automation of application deployment is critical because manually deploying applications is time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone. Several deployment automation technologies have been developed in recent years employing tool-specific deployment modeling languages. At the same time, the OASIS standard Topology Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) emerged as a means for describing cloud applications, i. e., their components and relationships, in a vendor-agnostic fashion. Despite TOSCA is widely used in research, it is not supported by the production-ready deployment automation technologies daily used by practitioners working with cloud-native applications, hence resulting in a gap between the state-of-the-art in research and state-of-practice in the industry. To help bridging this gap, we leverage the recently introduced Essential Deployment Metamodel (EDMM) and identify TOSCA Light, an EDMM-compliant subset of TOSCA, to enact the transformation from TOSCA to the vast majority of deployment automation technology-specific models used by today’s software industry. Further, we present an end-to-end TOSCA Light modeling and transformation workflow and show a prototypical implementation to validate our approach.

ContactMichael Wurster wurster@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
Project(s)RADON
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Entry dateMay 25, 2020
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