Infrastructure Manager (IM): TOSCA deployment and orchestration in the Cloud Continuum

Miguel Caballer, Germán Moltó, and Amanda Calatrava. Infrastructure Manager (IM): TOSCA deployment and orchestration in the Cloud Continuum. In EGI Conference 2023, 2023.

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Abstract

The Infrastructure Manager (IM) is a TOSCA-based orchestrator that has been developed throughout the last decade to support the deployment of complex application architectures across a myriad of IaaS Cloud back- ends, including the most popular public Cloud Platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) as well as European public providers such as Open Telekom Cloud, Cloud & Heat and Orange Cloud, European federated platforms such as EGI Cloud Compute and on-premises platforms like OpenStack or OpenNebula. Furthermore, the IM has been running in production for more than 5 years in EGI Cloud Compute, where it is the preferred solution to deploy complex infrastructures in the cloud.This contribution demonstrates a TOSCA extension, to define FaaS-based applications to be deployed using open-source serverless platforms. Also, the IM has been extended to support application deployment de- scribed using these new TOSCA templates. For this, we have relied on the serverless capabilities of the two existing open-source developments. On the one hand, SCAR allows the deployment of Docker-based appli- cations on AWS Lambda and AWS Batch. On the other hand, OSCAR can run event-driven Docker-based applications for data processing purposes on Kubernetes clusters, including low-powered ARM-based devices such as Raspberry PIs clusters, thus approaching the edge of the cloud continuum scenario.

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{Caballer2023imt-egi,
   abstract = {The Infrastructure Manager (IM) is a TOSCA-based orchestrator that has been developed throughout the last decade to support the deployment of complex application architectures across a myriad of IaaS Cloud back- ends, including the most popular public Cloud Platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) as well as European public providers such as Open Telekom Cloud, Cloud & Heat and Orange Cloud, European federated platforms such as EGI Cloud Compute and on-premises platforms like OpenStack or OpenNebula. Furthermore, the IM has been running in production for more than 5 years in EGI Cloud Compute, where it is the preferred solution to deploy complex infrastructures in the cloud.
This contribution demonstrates a TOSCA extension, to define FaaS-based applications to be deployed using open-source serverless platforms. Also, the IM has been extended to support application deployment de- scribed using these new TOSCA templates. For this, we have relied on the serverless capabilities of the two existing open-source developments. On the one hand, SCAR allows the deployment of Docker-based appli- cations on AWS Lambda and AWS Batch. On the other hand, OSCAR can run event-driven Docker-based applications for data processing purposes on Kubernetes clusters, including low-powered ARM-based devices such as Raspberry PIs clusters, thus approaching the edge of the cloud continuum scenario.
},
   author = {Miguel Caballer and Germán Moltó and Amanda Calatrava},
   booktitle = {EGI Conference 2023},
   title = {Infrastructure Manager (IM): TOSCA deployment and orchestration in the Cloud Continuum},
   url = {https://indico.egi.eu/event/6071/contributions/17555/},
   year = {2023}
}