Coherent Application Delivery on Hybrid Distributed Computing Infrastructures of Virtual Machines and Docker Containers

German Moltó, Miguel Caballer, Alfonso Perez, Carlos de Alfonso, and Ignacio Blanquer. Coherent Application Delivery on Hybrid Distributed Computing Infrastructures of Virtual Machines and Docker Containers. In 2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP), pp. 486–490, IEEE, 2017.

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Abstract

There is an opportunity for Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) to embrace container-based virtual- isation to support efficient execution of scientific applications without the performance penalty commonly introduced by Virtual Machines (VMs). However, containers (e.g. Docker) and VMs feature different image formats and disparate procedures for deployment and management, thus hindering the adoption of hybrid DCIs (HDCIs) comprised of those kind of resources. This paper describes a workflow based on open-source tools and standards to introduce coherent application delivery on HDCIs in which applications require to be deployed on both VMs and Docker containers. Leveraging and extending the TOSCA standard to describe application requirements, and adopting DevOps practices, resulted in the coherent creation of the artifacts required for the execution of the applications on different platforms. The paper features the adoption of this approach in the INDIGO-DataCloud project.

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@inproceedings{Molto2017cad,
   abstract = {There is an opportunity for Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) to embrace container-based virtual- isation to support efficient execution of scientific applications without the performance penalty commonly introduced by Virtual Machines (VMs). However, containers (e.g. Docker) and VMs feature different image formats and disparate procedures for deployment and management, thus hindering the adoption of hybrid DCIs (HDCIs) comprised of those kind of resources. This paper describes a workflow based on open-source tools and standards to introduce coherent application delivery on HDCIs in which applications require to be deployed on both VMs and Docker containers. Leveraging and extending the TOSCA standard to describe application requirements, and adopting DevOps practices, resulted in the coherent creation of the artifacts required for the execution of the applications on different platforms. The paper features the adoption of this approach in the INDIGO-DataCloud project.},
   author = {German Moltó and Miguel Caballer and Alfonso Perez and Carlos de Alfonso and Ignacio Blanquer},
   doi = {10.1109/PDP.2017.29},
   isbn = {978-1-5090-6058-0},
   booktitle = {2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP)},
   pages = {486-490},
   publisher = {IEEE},
   title = {Coherent Application Delivery on Hybrid Distributed Computing Infrastructures of Virtual Machines and Docker Containers},
   url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7912692/},
   year = {2017}
}