Model Driven Cloud Orchestration by Combining TOSCA and OCCI

Fabian Glaser, Johannes Erbel, Jens Grabowski

2017

Abstract

To tackle the problem of a cloud-provider lock-in, several standards have emerged in the recent years which aim to provide a unified interface to cloud resources. The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) thereby focuses on the standardization of a common API for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers and the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) focuses on the standardization of a template language to enable the proper definition of the topology of cloud applications and their orchestrations on top of an IaaS cloud. TOSCA thereby does not define how the application topologies are created on the cloud. Therefore, it is worthwhile to analyse the conceptual similarities between the two approaches and the possibilities to integrate both. In this paper, we provide an overview of the similarities between the two standardization approaches. Furthermore, we define a concept of a fully model driven cloud orchestrator based on the two standards.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Glaser F., Erbel J. and Grabowski J. (2017). Model Driven Cloud Orchestration by Combining TOSCA and OCCI . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-243-1, pages 672-678. DOI: 10.5220/0006372706720678

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer17,
author={Fabian Glaser and Johannes Erbel and Jens Grabowski},
title={Model Driven Cloud Orchestration by Combining TOSCA and OCCI},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2017},
pages={672-678},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006372706720678},
isbn={978-989-758-243-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - Model Driven Cloud Orchestration by Combining TOSCA and OCCI
SN - 978-989-758-243-1
AU - Glaser F.
AU - Erbel J.
AU - Grabowski J.
PY - 2017
SP - 672
EP - 678
DO - 10.5220/0006372706720678