RE: TOSCA management protocols (proposal)

[Antonio Brogi <brogi@di.unipi.it>]

Dear All,

I am sorry, I misunderstood Paul's suggestion, my mistake.

Here is the link to the Springer site:

    http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-24072-5_2

and here is the abastract of the article:

Managing complex applications over heterogeneous clouds is one of the emerging problems in the cloud era. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) aims at solving this problem by providing a language to describe and manage complex cloud applications in a portable and vendor-agnostic way. TOSCA permits to define an application as an orchestration of components, whose types can specify states, requirements, capabilities and management operations — but not how they interact with each other. In this paper we propose a simple extension of TOSCA that permits to specify the behaviour of management operations and their relations with states, requirements, and capabilities. We show how such an extension permits to automate various useful analyses, like determining the validity of a management plan, which are its effects, or which plans reach certain system configurations. Finally, we illustrate a proof-of-concept graphical interface that permits to edit and analyse management protocols in TOSCA applications.

Thanks and best regards

Antonio

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Da: Lipton, Paul C <Paul.Lipton@ca.com>
Inviato: mercoledì 23 marzo 2016 22:27
A: Antonio Brogi; tosca@lists.oasis-open.org
Oggetto: RE: TOSCA management protocols (proposal)

 

Hi TOSCA-teers,

 

To clarify, I suggested that Antonio share an abstract and link to this paper, presuming it is publicly available, not the actual article.

 

Thanks,

Paul

 

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Subject: [tosca] TOSCA management protocols (proposal)

 

Dear All,

 

At the end of today's meeting of the "TOSCA Instance Model Ad Hoc" group I mentioned that here at UPI we have been studying a possible way of extending TOSCA to permit specifying management protocols, that could be perhaps of interest for the ongoing discussion.

 

We have described our proposal in the (attached) article:

A. Brogi, A. Canciani, J. Soldani. Modelling and analysing cloud application management. In S. Dustdar, F. Leymann, M. Villari (Editors), Service Oriented and Cloud Computing – Proceedings of 4th European Conference, ESOCC 2015, Taormina, Italy, September 15-17, 2015. LNCS  9306, pages 19-33. 2015.

 (and we have then extended our proposal in two other articles).

 

Following Paul's suggestion, I am sending this message to the list with the PDF of the article attached.

 

Thanks and best regards

 

Antonio Brogi

University of Pisa, Italy​