Towards a Standards-based Cloud Service Manager

Amine Ghrab, Sabri Skhiri, Hervé Koener, Guy Leduc

2013

Abstract

Migrating services to the cloud brings all the benefits of elasticity, scalability and cost-cutting. However, migrating services among different cloud infrastructures or outside the cloud is not an obvious task. In addition, distributing services among multiple cloud providers, or on a hybrid installation requires a custom implementation effort that must be repeated at each infrastructure change. This situation raises the lock-in problem and discourages cloud adoption. Cloud computing open standards were designed to face this situation and to bring interoperability and portability to cloud environments. However, they target isolated resources, and do not take into account the notion of complete services. In this paper, we introduce an extension to OCCI in order to support complete service definition and management automation. We support this proposal with an open-source framework for service management through compliant cloud infrastructures.

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in Harvard Style

Ghrab A., Skhiri S., Koener H. and Leduc G. (2013). Towards a Standards-based Cloud Service Manager . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8565-52-5, pages 127-130. DOI: 10.5220/0004372201270130


in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer13,
author={Amine Ghrab and Sabri Skhiri and Hervé Koener and Guy Leduc},
title={Towards a Standards-based Cloud Service Manager},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2013},
pages={127-130},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004372201270130},
isbn={978-989-8565-52-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Towards a Standards-based Cloud Service Manager
SN - 978-989-8565-52-5
AU - Ghrab A.
AU - Skhiri S.
AU - Koener H.
AU - Leduc G.
PY - 2013
SP - 127
EP - 130
DO - 10.5220/0004372201270130