Paper Info
Title
Orchestrating incomplete TOSCA applications with Docker.
Abstract
Cloud applications typically integrate multiple components, each needing a virtualised runtime environment that provides the required software support (e.g., operating system, libraries). This paper shows how TOSCA and Docker can effectively support the orchestration of multi-component applications, even when their runtime specification is incomplete. More precisely, we first introduce a TOSCA-based representation of multi-component applications, and we illustrate how such representation can be exploited to specify only the application-specific components. We then present TosKeriser, a tool for automatically completing TOSCA application specifications, which can automatically discover the Docker-based runtime environments that provide the software support needed by the application components. We also show how we fruitfully exploited TosKeriser in two concrete case studies. Finally, we discuss how the specifications completed by TosKeriser can be automatically orchestrated by already existing TOSCA engines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.scico.2018.07.005
Science of Computer Programming
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cloud applications,TOSCA,Docker,Container reuse
Programming language,Computer science,Software,Orchestration (computing),Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
166
0167-6423
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Brogi11708146.54
Davide Neri272.56
Luca Rinaldi321.74
Jacopo Soldani419027.66