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Title
An Infrastructure Modelling Tool for Cloud Provisioning
An Infrastructure Modelling Tool for Cloud Provisioning
Julio Sandobalin
Published in
14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2017), June 25- June 30, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, IEEE Computer Society. - 2017
14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2017), June 25- June 30, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, IEEE Computer Society. - 2017
Abstract
Cloud computing offers computing, network, and storage capabilities through services that abstract the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Currently, a variety of tools exist that manage the infrastructure provisioning and use scripts to define the final state of the hardware to be deployed in the cloud. However, there are major challenges that need to be addressed to automate the infrastructure management so that they are effectively used in initiatives such as DevOps. In particular, the management of Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) is one of the most important technical challenges to support activities such as the integration, deployment, and continuous delivery of applications. To address this problem, we present a support for the management of DevOps tools, through the definition of a Specific Domain Language (DSL) based on the concept of Infrastructure as a Code, and a tool that supports this language allowing to model the final state of provisioning infrastructure in the cloud and generating the provisioning scripts for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The proposed tool reduces the work for development and operations personnel and facilitates their communication.
Cloud computing offers computing, network, and storage capabilities through services that abstract the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Currently, a variety of tools exist that manage the infrastructure provisioning and use scripts to define the final state of the hardware to be deployed in the cloud. However, there are major challenges that need to be addressed to automate the infrastructure management so that they are effectively used in initiatives such as DevOps. In particular, the management of Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) is one of the most important technical challenges to support activities such as the integration, deployment, and continuous delivery of applications. To address this problem, we present a support for the management of DevOps tools, through the definition of a Specific Domain Language (DSL) based on the concept of Infrastructure as a Code, and a tool that supports this language allowing to model the final state of provisioning infrastructure in the cloud and generating the provisioning scripts for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The proposed tool reduces the work for development and operations personnel and facilitates their communication.
BibTeX
@misc{issi_web:id:485,
title = "An Infrastructure Modelling Tool for Cloud Provisioning",
author = "Julio Sandobalin and Emilio Insfrán Pelozo and Silvia Abrahao",
booktitle = "14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2017), June 25- June 30, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, IEEE Computer Society.",
year = "2017",
eprint = "http://issi.dsic.upv.es/publications/archives/",
url = "",
abstract = "Cloud computing offers computing, network, and storage capabilities through services that abstract the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Currently, a variety of tools exist that manage the infrastructure provisioning and use scripts to define the final state of the hardware to be deployed in the cloud. However, there are major challenges that need to be addressed to automate the infrastructure management so that they are effectively used in initiatives such as DevOps. In particular, the management of Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) is one of the most important technical challenges to support activities such as the integration, deployment, and continuous delivery of applications. To address this problem, we present a support for the management of DevOps tools, through the definition of a Specific Domain Language (DSL) based on the concept of Infrastructure as a Code, and a tool that supports this language allowing to model the final state of provisioning infrastructure in the cloud and generating the provisioning scripts for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. The proposed tool reduces the work for development and operations personnel and facilitates their communication."
}