A Modelling Concept to Integrate Declarative and Imperative Cloud Application Provisioning Technologies

Uwe Breitenbücher, Tobias Binz, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann, Johannes Wettinger

2015

Abstract

Efficient application provisioning is one of the most important issues in Cloud Computing today. For that purpose, various provisioning automation technologies have been developed that can be generally categorized into two different flavors: (i) declarative approaches are based on describing the desired goals whereas (ii) imperative approaches are used to describe explicit sequences of low-level tasks. Since modern Cloud-based business applications become more and more complex, employ a plethora of heterogeneous components and services that must be wired, and require complex configurations, the two kinds of technologies have to be integrated to model the provisioning of such applications. In this paper, we present a process modelling concept that enables the seamless integration of imperative and declarative provisioning models and their technologies while preserving the strengths of both flavors. We validate the technical feasibility of the approach by applying the concept to the workflow language BPEL and evaluate its features by several criteria.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Breitenbücher U., Binz T., Kopp O., Leymann F. and Wettinger J. (2015). A Modelling Concept to Integrate Declarative and Imperative Cloud Application Provisioning Technologies . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-104-5, pages 487-496. DOI: 10.5220/0005495104870496

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer15,
author={Uwe Breitenbücher and Tobias Binz and Oliver Kopp and Frank Leymann and Johannes Wettinger},
title={A Modelling Concept to Integrate Declarative and Imperative Cloud Application Provisioning Technologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2015},
pages={487-496},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005495104870496},
isbn={978-989-758-104-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - A Modelling Concept to Integrate Declarative and Imperative Cloud Application Provisioning Technologies
SN - 978-989-758-104-5
AU - Breitenbücher U.
AU - Binz T.
AU - Kopp O.
AU - Leymann F.
AU - Wettinger J.
PY - 2015
SP - 487
EP - 496
DO - 10.5220/0005495104870496