Towards a Contextualization Solution for Cloud Platform Services

Author

Armstrong, Django ; Djemame, Karim ; Nair, Srijith ; Tordsson, Johan ; Ziegler, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

Nov. 29 2011-Dec. 1 2011

Firstpage

328

Lastpage

331

Abstract

We propose a cloud contextualization mechanism which operates in two stages, contextualization of VM images prior to service deployment (PaaS level) and self contextualization of VM instances created from the image (IaaS level). The contextualization tools are implemented as part of the OPTIMIS Toolkit, a set of software components for simplified management of cloud services and infrastructures. We present the architecture of our contextualization tools and the feasibility of our contextualization mechanism is demonstrated in a three tier web application scenario. Preliminary performance results suggest acceptable performance and scalability of our prototype.

Keywords

cloud computing; object-oriented programming; virtual machines; IaaS level; OPTIMIS toolkit; PaaS level; VM images; VM instances; cloud contextualization mechanism; cloud platform services; cloud services management; contextualization solution; contextualization tools; infrastructures management; self contextualization; service deployment; software components; Context; Elasticity; ISO; Licenses; Security; Servers; Software; Cloud Computing; Cloud Services; Contextualization; Platform as a Service; Virtual Machines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0090-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CloudCom.2011.51

Filename

6133160